I was really surprised to find the out of the box KDE Plasma doesn’t seem to have virtual desktops turned on (or at least it’s set to a single desktop). I know Windows technically has this now but it’s still one of the things I love about Linux, the implementation is so smooth. To add …
I’m currently designing a backup system built around Resitc and removable USB drives. Before I can really get started though I need to properly understand how to manage the drives, in particular mounting and unmounting them. What I’m hoping I’ll be able to achieve is a situation where I can mount a drive somewhere (let’s …
I’ve recently been organizing some of the video files I have and a few of them are larger than I would prefer. It occurred to me that I’m somewhat familiar with HandBrake so I should probably re-encode them. I’ve used HandBrake before but, if I’m being honest, I didn’t really understand what I was doing. …
In an earlier article I mentioned that I was going to switch to Linux and I’d selected KDE Neon as my distro of choice. After some thought I came to the conclusion that I’d be better off just going with Debian. Debian 12 (bookworm) has just been released and it comes with very nearly the …
Vikunja is a task / project management application. The unpronounceable name apparently comes from a relative of the llama, overlooking the name for a moment this appears to be a great application. Deployment is a little trickier than with most applications as it, at a minimum, comes as three parts. You have a database, the …
I’ve just had what is probably the most ridiculous failure in my home lab. I found that my media download server was not longer running properly, the services were coming up but they were failing left right and centre. I noticed that most of my SMB mounts weren’t mounted so I manually mounted them, that …
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Once you start setting up a home lab you very quickly end up with a whole host of services and each one has it’s own port number and or host. To save you having to remember all of that you can set up a reverse proxy to bring everything together. The reverse proxy acts as …
I said previously that I wasn’t going to write this article but now I come to properly think about it I feel it’s worth it. Part of why I write these articles is to help beginners get started with tools that they would often be nervous about just diving into. If I can get someone …
This article started out as just a guide on running Calibre with a network library, a difficult task at the best of times, it has since had to morph into a guide on running Calibre Web in the same way since that too is non-trivial. Calibre Calibre is certainly a powerful application, of that there …
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This is a list of services that I self host on my personal network. This almost all runs on a Proxmox server which I mostly wrote a guide about putting together. It has a RAIDZ2 array of a bit over 40TB. Hosted Under Consideration Tried and Removed