If you want to edit files within default (not host path) volumes for a TrueNAS scale app, you need to know where to find the volume mounted on disk. [Read More]

For virtualizing my own PC with Proxmox I had to add another GPU (a cheap Quadro P620) as the host output, which I also planned on using for hardware acceleration for my media collection in Jellyfin. This is how to make that work. [Read More]

Since a while, a huge qualm I had with the official Protobuf/gRPC tooling for Python has been resolved. There wasn’t any IDE support for the stubs generated by the Protobuf compiler, making development tedious and error-prone. [Read More]

I needed to set up an OpenVPN client to connect an Alpine Linux VM (hosting containers) to a legacy environment. Not knowing the “old days” of OpenRC too well and being used to systemd, I struggled for a while to start an OpenVPN client in a persistent manner through OpenRC.... [Read More]

A quick tutorial on how to configure the AutoMX WSGI script with a MySQL database like the ones PostfixAdmin and ViMbAdmin use. [Read More]

I take a look at what happened with my Buffalo NAS, and how to recover data from its dead corpse. [Read More]

How to fix transparency issues in GNOME, add temperature monitors and an unread email counter. [Read More]