Intel AMT / Active Management Technology allows remote management of hardware, providing features like KVM or device mounting through a local network or even offsite.

Was this worth the cost of implementing it into my homelab server versus something like GLi.net's comet + fingerbot or PiKVM devices? The most economical/simpler solution is probably a refurbished vPro micro PC such as a Lenovo Thinkcentre, Hp EliteDesk, or Dell EMC Optiplex - but Walmart.com's $95 deal on an Asus Q670 motherboard seemed like a steal...

I found it quite straightforward to wipe my Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook purchased from Costco in 2023 and install Universal Blue's Aurora OS instead. Here's a loose guide to do so, complete with references!

Scanning documents to paperless-ngx can be a tedious process depending on your scanner software, hardware, and consume folder setup.

This guide sets up dockerized open-source web-based scanning software (scanservjs) and a scan button polling software (insaned) to make scanning a breeze.

Includes auto-crop, auto-rotate, and deskewing before the PDF file arrives for consumption and OCR by paperless.

Simply press the scan button for simple one-off scans, or utilize the scanservjs web UI for more complex multipage scans. Docs will automatically be consumed by paperless-ngx and tagged with scanserv

You may be wondering why your subroutes on your NextJS site only work in the development environment when built with output: 'export'.

This 5+ year old issue is curious... read on for the solution AND the logical explanation.

After sudo dnf update, Fedora 42 installed an updated linux kernel 6.15.3.

Upon startup, my 2nd HDMI monitor shutoff due to receiving no signal. (power saving mode)

This is an amdgpu driver bug in the latest linux kernel. It also affects the rawhide kernel 6.16

in gitlab-runner with node-23-alpine:

npm install throws a DNS error unable to resolve a dependency referencing github.com

but prior dig, and node -e dns.resolve do resolve the address

however wget fails with DNS error.

if we run the same dockerfile outside of gitlab-runner, wget is successful.

Why is this?

In this post I will detail how I setup a working Wireguard VPN to access my Fedora homelab server. I will connect to the VPN using my Chromebook connected to a Google Fi hotspot served by my phone. I will also utilize the PiHole DNS server on the homelab through the VPN.

A few gotchas include potential default MTU incompatibility, and a picky native VPN app on Chromebook. Read on.

After AWS announcing that CodeCommit would no longer be accepting new customers back in July, it became evident that migrating source control from AWS would eventually become imperative.

I first heard about Gaggiuino a number of years ago on one particular deep dive on espresso machines.

I should preface this by making it clear my 'deep dives' mainly searching "[search term] + reddit".

Reddit is far from a source of truth, but its community knowledge is a hell of a lot better than, say, random blogs like this one.

It quickly became clear that Gaggiuino is first and foremost a community of espresso and tinkerer enthusiasts.