Tag: tech
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Building a Custom Dashboard with Home Assistant and a Raspberry Pi
Are you running Home Assistant and looking for a way to enhance your smart home experience? Setting up a dedicated smart home dashboard is a game-changer. With a small monitor and a Raspberry Pi, you can create a sleek, interactive interface to control and monitor your smart devices. Here’s why and how you should build…
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Installing Docker (Updated)
It is 2024. Why aren’t you containerizing your applications? Well if you are looking to install and deploy Docker containers, follow the tutorial below. Note: This tutorial assumes you have an Ubuntu-based operating system and sudo access to command line. Step 1: Copy the following command: This will download a script I threw together. Feel…
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Home Assistant: Building a Smarter Home
Do you have smart light bulbs in your home? Maybe some smart plugs controlling lamps or other appliances? How about a smart thermometer? If you said yes to any of those devices, I can almost bet that each one has their own app to control said device. What’s more, is that I can bet that…
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Host Your Own Minecraft Server with Docker
Would you like to host your own Minecraft Server? Have full control of your files and the ability to backup all of your World Data? If you’d like to host your own server with all of its perks, this tutorial is definitely for you. (This also works for a VPS if you want to host…
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Max Out Your Storage with ZFS
If you have recently created a server that has multiple disks, you may need a reliable file system that can fully utilize all of your Hard Drives and make the most of your storage. I recently had this issue as I recently upgraded some of my hardware and decided to put gently-used gaming PC parts…
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Hosting Your Own Media Server with Plex
By popular demand, we are going over the oh-so-simple tutorial of how to set up your very own Plex Media Server. First question you might have: “What items will I need?” Well all you will need for this project is an inexpensive, dedicated computer running Linux that can remain on to host your Plex Server…
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Tmux: A Sysadmin’s Dream Tool
Tmux or Terminal Multiplexer, is a beautiful tool that helps simplify remote system administration tasks, and allows for elegant multi-tasking. Tmux allows for detaching sessions and allows the user to setup tasks that would once force the user to be present and/or logged in to see it through, and simply walk away. Conventionally, if a…
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The Homelab Away from Home
Lately I have been traveling for work quite a bit, and having to travel means staying in different Hotels. Any Homelab Junkie knows that means a few things; less than desirable hotel Wi-Fi, and no immediate Homelab access (Unless you’ve set up a VPN connection to your own Homelab, as detailed in my previous blog…
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Incident Handling: Key Questions
I am going to present you with a little thought exercise. Let’s put our cyber caps on and think about Incident Handling. Incident Handling is the organized approach of analyzing, recording and responding in the aftermath of a Cybersecurity Breach. A team approaches you with concerns that their network is being attacked. They have noticed…
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Using the SSH Config
If you are anything like the average HomeLabber, you likely have one or more Linux Servers that you manage. Managing all of those servers often requires remotely accessing them, and the quickest and easiest way to do that is via SSH. SSH or Secure Shell is a way to remotely control your Linux servers by…
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