It’s been a while, let’s go! Any major fuckups lately or smooth sailing?
I had to change the local DNS setup yesterday. I finally installed my wife Linux Mint and wanted to set her up for Vaultwarden real quick which became an hour long debug session since apparently CNAME entries for hostnames don’t work as I thought. Never came up the recent year as all my machines took it, but resolved refused to and so I eventually deleted the entries in the Pihole and created them as A records pointing to the VM with the reverse proxy, hoping I won’t need to change the IP anytime soon. It’s always DNS!
In other news I think I moved all my local dockered services to forgejo+komodo now and applying updates by merging renovate MRs still feels super smooth. I just updated my calibre web automated with a single click. Only exception is home assistant where I have yet to find a good split in what to throw in a docker volume and what to check in git and bindmount.
So much has been going on
I moved recently and had to change ISPs. I went from 2 Gbps symmetrical fiber to 90/3 Mbps satellite behind CGNAT.
Fastest place to get the WAN cable into the house was through the attic and into my guest room / office. But that caused some serious heat and noise issues.
Ran some structural Cat6, installed new electrical outlet, put in some keystone jacks, wired a new patch panel, then moved the rack to the basement.
Bought and installed a UPS which has already saved me twice in a month.
Up speeds were too slow and the high latency to the satellite constellation was causing issues, so I spun up a small VPS. But that means I have to sync content back to my local.
I’ve been wrestling with
rsyncfor over a month… fiddling with flags to get the best results. I think I finally settled on a config yesterday and the service and timer are working wellCGNAT is messing with remote access, so I set up cloudflare tunnels. But the tunneling is not well suited for streaming. I was only getting ~100 Kbps on remote connections. Ran some
iperf3testing over tailscale and was slightly better.My preferred audiobook app
Prologuereleased a major update to v4.0 which broke Plex libraries on launch, so I had to quickly pivot toAudioBookShelf.To achieve remote streaming and access for Prologue, I had to explain Tailscale set up and create new user accounts. Only halfway through my user base. Not looking forward to explaining it to my parents
Finally, I’m trying to set up
Claudeto run on my server rather than my locked down enterprise laptop. That’ll allow more tooling access like git rather than before when I was spending a lot of time downloading and uploading files manually. I need to figure out how to keep my session open. I’ll probably runtmuxinside a docker container then runclaudeinside the tmux window. Hopefully that worksOh, I also want to look into using a tailscale exit node to use a proton vpn wire guard route so I don’t have to switch between two separate VPNs