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I’ve recently purchased a few HP EliteDesk 800 G5 desktops for my new homelab v2. This is to supplement my existing UnRAID setup with things running in containers, and some cronjobs on my main desktop that I sometimes have powered off. I’ll hopefully write some more about the whole new setup later, but for now, I just want to focus on getting my compute set up (securely) with Talos OS on my new nodes. ... Read more…

As I was setting up uklan’s LanCache, I found myself wanting to figure out how I could keep handing out my Pi-hole to clients on multiple VLANs, yet still use my LanCache setup

Much like how I’ve set up Relaxed Theme for Royal TS and for Cmder, I’ve started using Windows Terminal in Windows instead of Cmder, so I wanted to figure out how to make my own theme for WSL so it looks how I like it. After downloading Windows Terminal, you can edit your settings JSON file by going to settings (hotkey of CTRL + ,) and clicking the “Open JSON file” in the bottom left. ... Read more…

After running the WireGuard benchmarks on a Pi Zero, I thought I'd get out my Raspberry Pi 3A+ and try it out just for fun.

I had a spare Pi Zero (version 1.3 used for these tests) laying around, and I thought I’d try and check out what some basic performance marks were when running the Pi Zero as a WireGuard server. I haven’t been able to find a whole lot of other benchmarks for running WireGuard on a Pi Zero, so I thought I’d try some out.

After making some entirely too long BASH scripts, I like to host them somewhere online to make it easier to get the script to whatever device I’m using. This is especially true when I want to run a long script on a brand new machine, a machine that I might not have enabled secure SSH access on yet, but one where I still have access to a tty. This is where the handy GitHub Gists comes in to play. ... Read more…

If you’re like me and diving into WireGuard as it picks up more attention, you might be adding lots of WireGuard peers to a server as you’re figuring it out and playing around with it. On my server box, I added a function to my .bashrc to make it a bit easier to add peers. If you’d like, copy the following (three, and simple at that) lines into your .bashrc: ... Read more…

Just as I translated the Relaxed Theme to Royal TS, I’ve also made a color scheme in Cmder. I absolutely love Cmder, it’s become my replacement on my work laptop for the default CMD, PowerShell, Git for Windows, WSL Docker Toolbox, and basically any CLI available on Windows. Anyway, head on over to your Cmder XML file (check the top of your Cmder settings screen), CTRL + F search for “Palette”, and append the following text to the end of the XML file: ... Read more…

In my conquest to make everything have the fantastic Relaxed Theme, I have translated the colors into Royal TS 4 and 5 (They are the same colors and layouts for both versions). Below are screenshots and pastes of the hex codes: Colors Hex code Default foreground #D9D9D9 Cursor Text #D9D9D9 Black #353A44 Green #909D63 Blue #6A8799 Cyan #C9DFFF Default background #353A44 Cursor color #D9D9D9 Red #BC5653 Yellow #EBDA7A Magenta #B06698 White #F7F7F7 ... Read more…

If you use Docker Toolbox for Windows, there’s an easier way to get everything shut down than going into the VirtualBox GUI and shutting down the Docker VM (if that’s how you’ve been doing it). There is a command called docker-machine that’s available when in the Docker BASH prompt that can control a lot of the host VM’s functions. In fact, Docker’s start.sh that runs when opening the BASH prompt uses it to configure everything inside of VirtualBox on startup. ... Read more…