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This is how the actual switch to Fedora went. You have to learn some things along the way.

Were you ever wondering what that box full of hex digits was in the social links that I was so proud of? Well, now you get to learn! Exciting!

I’ve had to do some serious reworking of my infrastructure. I’ve changed my name, changed my domain name, and a bunch of components kept falling apart from lack of maintenance. When this last Ubuntu LTS upgrade occurred, a few more pieces also fell apart, namely NextCloud because I was approximately 5 major versions behind. I needed to put things in containers so they wouldn’t break, and I also needed to start unifying my user database...

(Note: This post is originally from 2020, and is copied to this new site for historical reasons. Opinions, network infrastructure, and other things may have changed since this was first written.) Sometimes, you run a Linux system headless. Sometimes, these headless systems don’t run 24 hours a day, usually because they’re in your house and you don’t need them all the time, so you’d like to save money on your light bill. When you power...

(Note: This post is originally from 2020, and is copied to this new site for historical reasons. Opinions, network infrastructure, and other things may have changed since this was first written.) I’ve been experimenting with Azure. Most of it is pretty straightforward, but one complex operation is getting a working content delivery network. There’s a lot of things you need to set up. Sidebar: Your first $200 are free When you register a new account...

(Note: This post is originally from 2019, and is copied to this new site for historical reasons. Opinions, network infrastructure, and other things may have changed since this was first written.) I’m very late to the containerization trend. I’d heard of it. I’d been familiar with the simplified explanation of “put your program in a box with a really-stripped down Ubuntu install” and kind of knew some names, like Docker and Vagrant, but I never...

The problem with having a SSO domain of your own is you want to use it for EVERYTHING

Man, people like to try and break into my mail server a lot.

(Note: This post is originally from 2017, and is copied to this new site for historical reasons. Opinions, network infrastructure, and other things may have changed since this was first written.) Yeah, yeah, I know, remote branches aren’t technically my current branch because blah blah Git internals. Terminology purists can send me hate mail all they want. The point is, shell prompts commonly have a display for your current branch (like mine), but Google results...