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Monitoring your drives. It's easy and quick to see the state of your drives in a GUI. There is a nice app called Scrutiny that will give you a Dashboard displaying disk health at a glance. Runs on TrueNAS, Unraid, Synology, pfSense, QNAP, RockStore and Windows. Implement on Docker or real rust.
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I have been asked about my design, and therefore – this post. The heavy lifting is by Ghost CRM. I then added some code for the TOC (Table of Content), Share on Social Media buttons, Copy to the Clipboard and some language based highlight color for the code segments, logo, background color ...
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Deploy with Terraform and manage with Ansible. Automation for the Cloud and Home Lab. Setting up VM or K8s/K3s clusters are pretty boring, I prefer to use automation. What are the benefits of using Automation: Cost Reduction, Easy to Manage, Productivity, Security and Flexibility. IaC and CI/CD.
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There is easy ways and there is smart ways. Today we take a look at the smart way. Usage of SSH-keygen and the config-file. Instead of typing: ssh [email protected] -p 12345, just type: ssh newwebsite.
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The exa-project did hit the end of the road. You should switch to a supported project asap. I found eza and lsd as good candidates, but the choice is, as always, on Linux yours.
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A full set of highly useful tools we need in our daily job (Crypto, Conversion, Web, Images and Video, Development, Networking, Math, Measurements, Text and Data). Fine tools for any developer or basically any person working in IT. Self-host it on your home lab. My favorite app on my cluster.
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Everyone needs Git Servers. A safe place for your GIT stuff in the home lab.
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Making large, interesting fonts has been a thing for over 30 years with FIGlet. Today we also have a horde of new versions like figurine with its random neon colors.
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Do you require a certain set of files with you, regardless of the device you're using, be it a different PC or even your mobile device? You don't have to fumble with USB sticks or cloud storage or NextCloud. File/directory synchronization is done automatically by Syncthing including version control.
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Warp-terminal is now available for Linux! You can install Warp on most Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux or RedHat. The initial set of available packages include: deb (apt), rpm (yum/dnf/zypper), pkg.tar.zst (pacman) and AppImage. Set Warp as default in Pop-OS
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Have you ever been looking for something, but the exact name is not known? Use fussy logic! Tiered of doing ls-cd, ls-cd all day, use fzy. Now you can us it to look for a directory and open it directly and easily. Needing an intuitive du, use dust. Cheat for cheat sheets.
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Should I update my CPU microcode or not? How is it done? Is it necessary for amd64 architecture (AMD or Intel)? Is it dangerous? These questions are discussed in this blog post. #microcode