Well, I’d really like to say the first update went well and for the most part I can say that BUT a couple of things came up. I had to rebuild qt5-doc with pamac. This was both painful and long. It took on the order of 30 min to complete and threw many errors (which …
I have’ had a version of mosquitto running for some time. It’s a docker setup and it just worked. The author of the docker container has moved in a direction I’m not following. MQTT is a protocol for enabling devices that are “smart” to talk to your network and other devices or service you might …
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So far the transition has been pretty painless. A couple of things to note though that I’ve bumped into so far. My main drive is not the home drive for the operating system. Everything that I care about is on two ntfs formatted drives. When I transitioned, I made sure there was nothing important on …
I was using the very awesome Calibre Web earlier. It is great software but I hadn’t bothered setting up Calibre itself on the server and I was rsyncing the database from my desktop every time I added or removed a book. This is great for getting the library started but once you’re adding and removing …
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updated Oct 12, 2025 I setup headscale a few days ago and have been thinking about a UI for it since. It feels like early days for this software despite headscale being 4 years old at time of writing. There are a number of UI packages out there for Headscale, all taking advantage of the …
This is one I’ve been meaning to solve for about 2 years. After I first stood up a server for myself. I had an SSH tunnel but this is, in theory a little more flexible and usable. A number of individuals have advertised tailscale and it’s virtues. Tailscale, as I understand it, is a client …
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getting WiFi and the Camera working I have generous people in my life. One of them gave me a Macbook Pro from 2015 recently. I’m excited because it means I get to move out of the Macbook Air 2011 that I’ve been limping along on for the past few years. I’m doubling my RAM (all …
So… I’m trying to de-big tech. De-google, de-meta etc… which comes with some problems. The big one is lack of “google play services”. Purchased software currently isn’t purchased (have to figure out how to solve that, in some cases it’s easy in others it totally dependent on play services or smthng I don’t want or …
I’m quite new to home assistant. I set it up as part of getting a robot vacuum going in my place and have yet to really use it for anything. Now I’ve noticed that it tracks when the vacuum starts, if it has an error and when it stops. Valetudo (while being so very awesome) …
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I recently purchased a used Dreame D10s Pro robot vacuum and I can say I haven’t made a more useful purchase in a very long time. The house is significantly cleaner than it has been in some time and it’s staying that way which is new for me. In order to make it work for …
Updated November 4, 2025 I’ve been dancing around this one for a while. NextCloud is a beast… it can have so many bells and whistles it can almost “do it all”. But every bell and whistle needs maintenance and may not be the best and a bunch of them need a separate application to run …
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I run a number of self-hosted applications and at least 2 of them are running postgresql. One of the applications has a limitation on reporting (see my previous post on paperless-ngx) and I think I can manage that by simply running a direct select query against the data. Note, this is NOT recommended for production …
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