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OPNsense router

Making an Arch-based router

Posted on April 12, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

For a while I’ve been using OPNsense for my custom router. I recently decided, though, to migrate away from that over to Arch. Hardware I haven’t ch...

Mira/Open source

Follow-up on my “Linux challenge”

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ll preface this by saying that I’m no longer using OpenMandriva. I switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed after dealing with some rather interesting inst...

Mira/Open source

My own Linux challenge

Posted on February 27, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Plenty of tech YouTube channels have taken a plunge into daily-driving Linux. And I’d actually been wanting to do so for the longest time. The holdup hasn...

Virtualization

Installing Volumio into VirtualBox

Posted on January 15, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Three simple steps: Note: Follow these steps on your VirtualBox host. Download the Volumio image Go to their download page and download the PC (X86/X64) option....

Cordelia

Moving to Manjaro

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Cordelia’s been on a couple different Linux distributions. Initially it was built in Fedora Server. Later I moved over to Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS. And rec...

Nasira

Check your mainboard battery

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

So let’s talk for a moment about a small part on your mainboard that might have a lot more influence over your system’s stability and even performan...

Product and service reviews/Raspberry Pi

Geekworm X680

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

As said in my review of the KVM-A8, I picked this up at the same time, though I had to wait longer to put it into service. At the time I bought the KVM-A8, I al...

OPNsense router/Product and service reviews/Raspberry Pi

Geekworm KVM-A8

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

For the longest time I wanted a KVM connection to my OPNsense router. I have a KVM-over-IP appliance on my rack. An Avocent MPU2032 I bought back in 2018. (Vert...

Docker

Hands-off script for setting up Firefly III for Docker

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Firefly III is an open source financial management system. I’m trying it out in renewing my search for an accounting system I can use from a browser. Am I...

Nasira

More upgrades but… no more NVMe

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

With the last update, I mentioned upgrading from 990FX to X99 with the intent of eventually adding an NVMe carrier card and additional NVMe drives so I could ha...

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