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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A month of upgrades to the homelab
It has been a minute since I’ve written here. I’ve been working on a few additions to my homelab, including Silverbullet, a code-server editor, Portainer, and HiSHtory. Most of it has been born out of my experience with the Chromebook.
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Blog Question Challenge - Technology Edition
I was tagged by Jon and Steve to participate in a new blog challenge, this time about technology. This is a long one and I don't blame you for skipping. This first section is the long boi and then I tried to keep the others short.
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Offgrid internet-in-a-box project - Part four
This post is specifically about saving webpages and entire websites and then accessing those sites completely offline. The tools I'm using to do this is zimit, SingleFile, and Kiwix. Given the current political climate in the US (where I am based) and other countries, this information can also be used to prepare for potential information access disruption.
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Why you want a persistent MX Linux install on a USB drive
For a while now, I've wanted the ability to sit down in front of any computer in the house and have access to everything I prefer to have on my personal workstation. This project was to create a persistent Linux install on a USB drive that I can boot from on any (x86) PC that has everything pre-installed and configured for my preferred desktop.
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Offgrid internet-in-a-box project - Part three
This post is about what apps I have installed on the laptop and then how I have create a large archive of apps that will make installing any other application I may need possible while offline. It includes anything from the `apt` repos, flatpaks, Docker containers, and Android apps for my mobile device.
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Offgrid internet-in-a-box project - Part two
After choosing the device for my offline and completely offgrid internet-in-a-box project, I set off to find the right distro for the build. I tested stock Debian, Archcraft, MX Linux, BunsonLabs, and AntiX, plus some thoughts on Endless OS.
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Not accepting pull requests
It is obvious I don't have a formal education as a developer or a SysAdmin. I mostly just cosplay as one on my LAN at night and on weekends. It is wild to me that people see an open source project and send in requests for changes instead of doing the changes themselves.
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Offgrid internet-in-a-box project - Part one
For fun, I like to invent scenarios and then build a tech setup for it. One of the builds I think about a lot is having a completely offgrid (and obviously offline) portable internet-in-a-box. This is the first steps in that build, laying out the requirements and choosing the hardware.
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Learning my tools - Winter 2025
I am a big fan of deeply learning my existing tools before shopping around for replacements. This year I spent extra time with yazi, chezmoi, stew, docker, and rsync.
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Blog Question Challenge 2025
I was nominated by Andreas to contribute to the Blog Question Challenge, so here ya go! All about how I ended up on this blog.
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