Having my annual itch to start blogging again and I noticed that it's almost a year since the last time I posted. Good grief. What's been going on in tech land this year? I continued to move everything for the home systems and Chia to wall…
Yeah, I'm trying Chia farming with the copious disk space I have. Probably be a waste of effort, but I am learning some interesting things in the process. I started with a simple Windows install and then decided to move to Ubuntu in a VM. The VM farmer…
Per my earlier post, I've been using a Pi Zero W with Chromium in a kiosk mode to display Grafana on a TV. Not sure if something changed with Chromium in the December 2020 release, but it wasn't working when I tried to do a rebuild.…
Testing out the ability to run some containers on RPi4 and I have a single borrowed device. Most of the tutorials out there describe a multi-node configuration and that's led to some challenges for me to understand this. First, I started with this tutorial: https://github.com/mhausenblas/…
First of all, I have not returned to using the Chromecast for my Grafana visualization. I didn’t elaborate on this, but my previous post was driven by a change to Grafana visualization that effectively broke the ChromeCast Kiosk server I was using. The recommended solution was to use a…
Mostly so I can find it later: https://www.reddit.com/r/dakboard/comments/fgiqn3/setup_a_raspberry_pi_zero_w_to_run_a_web_browser/ This is for Dakboard, but it worked fine for Grafana. The Rpi Zero is glacial...…
I found this more difficult to locate than it needed to be. If you want to add an alias to zsh in MacOS, say something like 'll', it's pretty simple. If you're comfortable with everyone on that system having the change, 'sudo nano…
"It doesn't matter what we play, if we play it with intent, people will respond." I'm paraphrasing Adam Neely. Sure does apply to a lot of things in life.…