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Squid The Cat
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Today in the news, Squid has aggressively climbed the pile of computer gear and staked his spot.#CatsOfMastodon #cerebellarhypoplasia...

Today in the news, Squid has aggressively climbed the pile of computer gear and staked his spot.
#CatsOfMastodon #cerebellarhypoplasia #squidthecat

Eight years ago on a lark I changed my grandkid's diaper and sealed it with gaff tape. After I sent them back I sat at home waiting for...

Eight years ago on a lark I changed my grandkid's diaper and sealed it with gaff tape. After I sent them back I sat at home waiting for the call. It never came.

Apparently this was too on brand for me that it didn't even warrant notice.
#kids #diapers #grandparent #gafftape

Squid want's to know if this is his good side. Caturday is tomorrow and wants to start off right.#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Squid want's to know if this is his good side. Caturday is tomorrow and wants to start off right.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

I'm at the age that I have new medications, and now beer, even ones I used to like, is no longer that appealing. Not all alcohol, just...

I'm at the age that I have new medications, and now beer, even ones I used to like, is no longer that appealing. Not all alcohol, just the beers for now. -_-
#beer #gettingold #microbrew

Anyone have any thoughts on Custom Windows builds? I've seen a few pass by that are slimmed down with less or no telemetry. Today...

Anyone have any thoughts on Custom Windows builds? I've seen a few pass by that are slimmed down with less or no telemetry. Today Windows X-Lite just passed my feed.

While I don't think I would use it for a business use, it is interesting and cool to see what people have done.

I tried one last year that removed almost everything with post install scripts. Ooof that image was a hot mess for me. Big case of too much.

Didn't stop me from looking over their work and take some ideas.
#windows #it #microsoft #windowsxlite #optimium10

Love when I go to check something and it's unresponsive. Then I look and find this:```user@host:~$ df -hFilesystem ...

Love when I go to check something and it's unresponsive. Then I look and find this:
```
user@host:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 795M 1.2M 793M 1% /run
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 30G 29G 0 100% /
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
/dev/sda2 2.0G 182M 1.7G 10% /boot
tmpfs 795M 12K 795M 1% /run/user/1000
```

My next 15 minutes are planned out for me. Used to be 20, I had to google the lvm command format.
#linux #lvm #selfhost #diskfull

DJ_DarkAngel_Carrie on Twitch just played Quadraphonia... My 90's clubbing days just flashed before my eyes.#quadraphonia #music...

DJ_DarkAngel_Carrie on Twitch just played Quadraphonia... My 90's clubbing days just flashed before my eyes.
#quadraphonia #music #techno #90stechno

I've been using https://nginxproxymanager.com/ for over a year now. This has simplified my life so much. Auto updating LetsEncrypt SSL...

I've been using https://nginxproxymanager.com/ for over a year now. This has simplified my life so much. Auto updating LetsEncrypt SSL certs. Easy to add new services. What is not to love. I deployed the docker install on it's own VM.
#linux #nginx #selfhosting

UPDATE: So this turned out to be a documentation issue. The replacement of the core ssh engine also invalidated the keys I was using. They...

UPDATE: So this turned out to be a documentation issue. The replacement of the core ssh engine also invalidated the keys I was using. They have been around for a long time and it was time to start fresh.

Also, the app, unlike other ssh GUI clients I have used on Windows used what keys you configured, but also without any keys set it would defer to your `.ssh` folder (even on Windows!) in your home directory. I have to check if maybe I missed that written somewhere. Either case, I did the needful and updated my reported issue, findings, and suggestions to add some documentation.

Are you a unix person? Do you host your own SSH at home to access "stuff"? If so, what port do you use to get your session...

Are you a unix person? Do you host your own SSH at home to access "stuff"? If so, what port do you use to get your session started?
#unix #linux #ssh 3selfhost

Standard port
Non-Standard Port
Something else

Going through some old photos that have matched people's faces in my Immich server, I discovered something important...I found...

Going through some old photos that have matched people's faces in my Immich server, I discovered something important...

I found Jesus.
#immich #photography #jesus

Any Ubuntu-ites venture outside of the standard Gnome? I tried KDE are over a year of a co-worker talking me up to it. I chose poorly, a...

Any Ubuntu-ites venture outside of the standard Gnome? I tried KDE are over a year of a co-worker talking me up to it. I chose poorly, a 4k laptop. Apparently the 24.10 Kbuntu install did not scale properly. I then needed to mess with the scaling AND the pointer size settings. And apps didn't seem to want to resize without a restart. This was a horrible introduction to KDE for me.

#ubuntu #kbuntu #kde #linux

Why do I still use Chrome?Well I came from Firefox back when FoxMarks (not yet was the only way to sync your bookmarks. Chrome came to the...

Why do I still use Chrome?

Well I came from Firefox back when FoxMarks (not yet was the only way to sync your bookmarks. Chrome came to the scene and when I used it, it had a central profile that would sync everything to the google account I already had. I install Chrome, log in, start working. It was not painful. Damn simple. That's how Chrome got me.

Here we are over a 17 years later and things feel different. I feel entrenched. I look at Firefox as the most likely alternative to Chrome (or Chrome variant) and all I see is how it doesn't do what Chrome does.

I use Profiles to separate my work, other work, and play. I'm typing this up on my Play profile. I have a Work profile for my day job use. I also have others for my side gig stuff. And Chrome has this feature front and center, and most importantly... Integrated. Firefox profiles are just as tacked on as they were in Mozilla days. And they do not integrate with Windows taskbar. I can't pin an icon that launches a specific profile like I can with Chrome. Note, on Linux I think I can't do this with Chrome either. Anyone have workflow suggestions for this on Windows and Linux?

PWAs, I do this for a few web apps, not all. But I like opening a new window with just that web app in it. I think if I dig enough, I can likely construct a command line to do this. I even tried the PWA plugin on Firefox but oddly it's broken on my Win11 24H2. Seems to work fine on my Linux Mint laptop. I have to play around with this more.

If I finally get serious about moving off Chrome, I can do it. It's just going to have a transition period where I try to force a drop in replacement verses just relearn a few things. In the end I'll likely get there.
#browser #chrome #firefox #windows #linux #pwa

Hosting my own media has taught me a few lessons:- Good Metadata is amazing- Less good Metadata is awful- If you 100% want consistency, put...

Hosting my own media has taught me a few lessons:
- Good Metadata is amazing
- Less good Metadata is awful
- If you 100% want consistency, put it in yourself
- If you can live with 80% - 90%, script it.
- Don't use Bash, no really, get over your mental block on Python and have at it. Or just do it in Bash you masochist.
#selfhost #multimedia #api #bash #linux #metadata

Personally I have been working on some health issues and my video business has slowed as a result. But I am making progress. I'm also...

Personally I have been working on some health issues and my video business has slowed as a result. But I am making progress. I'm also looking to get back out there into IT. If you're looking for someone with decades of linux admin along with Windows Desktop/server and some OSX, I'm here. I also have a lot of hardware experience from desktop to server. And I can talk mostly with network teams and troubleshoot.

I script and can document. I teach others verses hoarding knowledge.

You can hit me up here or at wesley.mason@gmail.com for a current resume. You can also find me on Linkedin under that email address.

Today I did a writeup on a ssh client I love and adore. It's a cross platform (big 3) graphical client and I enjoy it as a replacement...

Today I did a writeup on a ssh client I love and adore. It's a cross platform (big 3) graphical client and I enjoy it as a replacement for WSL on windows and still give me a familiar view on Linux too.

But today's writeup was a bug report on the replaced ssh engine they put in the past week. Ssh keys are still broken for me and I discovered a few other things too along my investigation. It was a somewhat length dive for a github issue, but I hope it is well received, especially if it helps fix more issues.
#ssh #linux #sshd #github #opensource

Sometimes I dig at home and find stuff I have. Sometimes I just need to move something.I still have the console. I may have a second one...

Sometimes I dig at home and find stuff I have. Sometimes I just need to move something.

I still have the console. I may have a second one in storage. Both I believe are bricks now that the cloud services are dead. Maybe android 4 bricks if I wanted to really get creative. The path to custom ROM'ing these beasties was shaky at best, but I did have one done in a dual boot IIRC.

I have 4 controllers and always keep an eye out for possible uses even today.
#ouya #gaming #bluetooth #android

TIL: MKV has an audio sibling... #video #transcoding #videoediting

TIL: MKV has an audio sibling...
#video #transcoding #videoediting

Oh woe is the unwary server upgrader.I have a Dell T620 that I am using as a VMware Hypervisor. One NVMe at 500gb, and a SSD Raid1 2x 1TB...

Oh woe is the unwary server upgrader.

I have a Dell T620 that I am using as a VMware Hypervisor. One NVMe at 500gb, and a SSD Raid1 2x 1TB drives I have been fighting with for the past few months to have space. I acquired a 2TB NVME and 2x 2TB SATA SSDs for this upgrade. Step one was to move everything off the NVMe and the SSD Raid onto my 44TB Raid6 HDD datastore. Easy enough. Then the power-down and finding the drives to replace.

The new hardware went in without much of a hitch, the old hardware is sitting on my desk in my "to be reused" pile. But...

I went into the system Lifecycle app to recreate my Raid1. Did that (I hadn't setup this machine before, it was given to me preconfigured), and booted back into ESXi. No datastores found. My new drives were there, but my HDD Raid6 of 6x 12TB drives was missing.

Long story short, Lifecycle replaced the config in the raid card. I missed the key sequence to go into the raid config and not use Lifecycle at all. I got into there and used this post to help my get things sorted.
https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/poweredge-hddscsiraid/perc-5i-accidentally-deleted-virtual-disk/647f2b48f4ccf8a8de042c86

Whew. Had to mount the new array once back in ESXi, but things are back, just a bunch of cleanup now.