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bridge with no slave
Moved an NVMe to a different M.2 slot to free up SATA ports. Booted to no internet. The cause was three layers deep and the error message was useless.
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Thoughts, guides, and observations I’ve collected – quick insights, lessons learned, and things worth remembering.
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polaris10 in 2026
An RX 580 from 2017 still does perfectly fine VAAPI hardware video work in 2026. ROCm machine learning is a different story. A look at what an old AMD card can and can't do today.
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rebuilding storage architecture on the homelab
Six drives, three filesystems, and a dying disk. Going from /ssd and /18tb bind-mounted everywhere to a tiered storage layout that actually makes sense.
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RX580 passthrough to unprivileged lxc
VAAPI in Frigate, Jellyfin, and Immich, all sharing one RX 580, all running inside one Docker host LXC that itself runs unprivileged on Proxmox.
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botty gets a dashboard
Adding a live status page and Prometheus metrics to my Discord bot. FastAPI in the same process as the bot, behind Authentik, deployed by tagging v0.2.0.
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frigate live views, the right way
Frigate ships with jsmpeg for live views and it is, to put it kindly, not great. Here is how I swapped it for MSE and WebRTC using go2rtc, and got a working OBS Browser Source out of it too.
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rebuilding my Discord bot as a real project
From a single-file IP checker to a containerized, multi-arch, semver-tagged, CI/CD-shipped Discord bot. With cogs, a music queue, and a release pipeline that turns a git tag into a pullable image in two minutes.
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obsidian -> github -> ghost
I wanted to have a way to sync my website's now page with my scribbles from the desktop. I read online about these digital garden type websites are using obsidian with the git plugin, which seemed exactly the solution I needed. Here's how to do it:
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dying 12tb hdd 💀
Proxmox said the disk passed SMART. Scrutiny said it was failing. The dd zero-fill was supposed to settle it. The drive ended up worse than when I started.
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Now — 2026-03-24
This page is linked with my Obsidian instance, future updates will be automatically pulled from there. Working via GitHub Actions. Currently feeling motivated. 🫡 Let's test the archive functionality. This is a small change that will archive the post! -> It worked!
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wireshark
PortReference - Wireshark WikiWireshark logo filter sintax: dns contains "word" - AND keyword dns and tcp.port == 443 - AND (both must be true) dns or arp - OR (either can be true) !dns - NOT (exclude DNS) dns and !mdns - DNS but not multicast DNS Frame
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refresher for networking
enable config t no ip domain-lookup hostname TTL: 64 Linux 128 windows 255 cisco ios OSI - Physical data network transport session presentation application Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away People dont need those stupid packets anyway arp - mac DORA discover offer request acknowledge /24 = 254 addresses /30