Thoughts, opinions, wild speculation, and haphazard technical advice from Dom. I’m a hearing disabled irrigation contractor, B-movie aficionado, self-hoster, and hopeless Linux desktop romantic. Former co-host of Go With The Heat Miami Vice podcast. This site uses no tracking pixels, does not set cookies, and works without javascript. You may also want to checkout my blogroll and a running list of bookmarks I save while browsing. Last, if this is your first time here, check out my favorite posts.
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My new desktop from an awesome friend
This is just a quick post to show it off and give a huge thanks to Olympia Mike who hooked me up with a new desktop for my birthday.
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Notes - Changing the default Docker root directory
TIL you can change the default root dir for Docker. This is fucking rad. This allows using a secondary or external drive for Docker images and volumes for space constrained devices, like anything with an eMMC.
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Creating a LAN-only VPS
I have been looking for a simple way to spin up a virtual machine for testing and then destroy or migrate it when I'm done. Folks often use a VPS for this type of work from someplace like Digital Ocean or Linode. Using Debian and Cockpit, I made a simple interface for spinning up new virtual machines to test new apps, services, and configurations in my homelab.
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Notes - Setting up my Debian desktops
This is how I setup a new Debian desktop with the base packages, apps, and configurations which will give me a fully functional desktop in about 20 minutes.
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Turning off my instance and going on a social media hiatus
I am going to put my personal Mastodon instance on hiatus. However, I’m not “going dark”. Keeping tabs on the world is still important to me.I will continue to read my RSS feeds and connect with folks via email or Signal.
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Offgrid internet-in-a-box project - Part five
In the last couple posts in this series I detailed how I archived a full `apt` clone, many flatpaks and docker containers, plus archiving webpages and full websites. This post is about entertainment.
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Retro tech confession
I know many wonderful people who love retro tech and I love to watch those people be passionate about it. However, I discovered recently it is just not for me.
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Notes - Self-hosting VSCode code-server and researching various text editors
I bounce around a lot of PCs in the house and I want a consistent editor on every device, regardless of what state the PC is in or if it is someone's elses PC on my LAN. These are my notes for researching various web-based text editors and how I setup a VSCode code-server.
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Being the helper
I have no dreams of leadership or moving up the corporate ladder. I enjoy being the helper. The person who makes it possible for other people to do their best work. Yet, for the people who do this kind of work, we are limiting our careers.
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Notes - Generate trees from markdown with gtree
This caught my attention because it is for generating tree listings with markdown. Sometimes I want to have a tree in my notes. It is not a replacement for the `tree` command. Rather, this is for generating trees from a markdown list.
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