Here’s a tweak I made to my Hugo workflow to default the draft setting to false, instead of the default of true.

So, currently my tech setup looks like this:

For all the usual reasons, I decided I needed a new laptop to handle my day-to-day needs.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself. Austin O'Malley

Here’s an easy way to manage updates of containers using Dockpeek and Portainer:

From Futility Closet

From time to time, it’s necessary to access a computer remotely. Over the years, TeamViewer was the tool of choice, but it has fallen into a bloated annoyance recently, so for many moons now I’ve been using Rustdesk - a FOSS toolset that works ideally for my use cases.

My daily-driver is an Asus X515 laptop running Windows 11. I picked this up a few years back when it was on sale at a good price, knowing it was a little underpowered for my long-term needs.

I use Syncthing to synchronize files between various systems in my extended homelab. There are currently five systems using Syncthing - a primary NAS server and a backup NAS server based in Texas, a laptop running Ubuntu Server 24.04 currently based with me in Ireland (and known as the Blackrock server), my personal Asus laptop running Windows 11, and a Digital Ocean VPS running Ubuntu Server 24.04. (I have a couple of other devices in the Tailnet - my Pixel 6 phone, and the travel Chromecast.)

Here’s how I solved a minor annoyance with my current setup.

Before we came to Ireland for extended stays, I setup an old Dell laptop to be the media server while we travel. This system runs Ubuntu 24.04 Server with a GUI, and makes it possible for us to watch our ripped movies and related media. I use Tailscale to securely access my remote systems, and in the Tailnet this server has the uninspired hostname of dell4800.