The Long Way

I've got a confession. I've had some Google Coral devices kicking around for some time now. They're the mPCIe variant, so not terribly popular. Which is why I bought them. In my infinite cheap-assery, I figured I could make them work somehow. I bought

Funkwhale is my chosen music streamer for my selfhosted home-prod. Going through the documentation, Funkwhale expects a few things: 1. nginx as a reverse proxy. 2. A single docker host. There's no documentation for Traefik2 on Funkwhale's website, and the error it produces with a default

Thats a mouthful of a title. The New Holland parts pages are incomplete. At least for the Ford 3600 tractors. Sometime in 1975, Ford 2600 and 3600 tractors added a hydraulic fluid cooler for the rear hydraulic lift. I assume they were getting enough warranty claims on the new (at

Dear Icemaker, Do you have any idea how close to death you were? Not because your parts were wearing out (but we'll get to that), but because of your RAPIDLY declining SAF (Spousal Acceptance Factor)? I've made excuse after excuse for you to the detriment of

To start off, this post may contain images, methods, and hardware some may deem unnatural.  Proceed at your own risk. Haswell came out in what? 2013? Its older, slower, and lacks a great many modern features. I'm of course, referring to the E3 Xeons, and their i$ whatever

I've had a goal for a while. To successfully network boot an arbitrary computer and have it automatically have authenticated access to usable VMs  hosted on my cluster. To do this, there are three real moving parts: a properly configured PXE server,  the OS the PXE server boots

Years ago, I installed a nice Honeywell alarm panel. I've got smart dogs, a pair of small humans that like to adventure, and a well conditioned inside that I would much rather keep inside. The alarm works great, programming it SUCKS. If you're the kind of

I'm a pack rat. When something breaks, I strip off the useless plastic casings, put all the hardware in a bin, all the circuit boards in my overflowing e-waste pile, and all the mechanical bits in bins to be (ab)used later. This is a running list of

To start off, this post may contain images, methods, and hardware some may deem unnatural.  Proceed at your own risk. Sandy Bridge came out in what? 2011? Its ancient, ugly, and lacks a great many modern features. I'm of course, referring to the E3 Xeons, and their i$

I've got a problem. My homelab is running out of PCIe slots. Its my own fault, really... I made the mistake of purchasing used Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, and Haswell era Intel Xeons to make up a hyperconverged cluster. They (the E3s, i3s, i5s, and i7s) don'