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I have been self hosting my own email for quite some time now on OpenBSD.

I have been using the fish shell recently.

This summer, I was tasked with a workshop: spend roughly 8 hours of the day teaching Ansible.

Software I started with a Fedora iso to update firmware stuff easily tried with the efi updater but it would not work OpenBSD installer ure0 ethernet card works iwx0 wireless works Post-Install Here is a list of what does/doesn’t work: audio - yes battery…

In an earlier post, I wrote on my migration to SmartOS.

I’ve had this blog go through some different softwares.

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In May 2022 I wrote about switching from FreeBSD to OpenBSD.

Today I continue my SmartOS saga.

I’ve been writing about doing more with SmartOS and switching to it.

I’ve been a Flair user since the beginning of my making home espresso.

I use OpenBSD a lot.

A while back I briefly wrote about using SmartOS and wanting to give it a spin.

Lately I’ve been growing a little disappointed with Nextcloud’s offering.

I’ve been using Nextcloud since its first release in 2016.

I’ve only written tech stuff here, but I wanted to share a good recipe that I threw together for dinner tonight.

Today, I am going to try something very different.

I was tasked with trying to get both Hebrew and Greek to be readable with Asciidoc, primarily for epub and PDF, but I also wanted to try with HTML too.

Somewhere around Firefox 120/121 I noticed my Firefox notifications were getting messed up.

The other day, I received my Ploopy Adept in the mail, after having waited since mid-December when I placed my preorder.

I roast coffee at home regularly.

Like many of us, I have been using SSH since the beginning of learning how to learn Linux, or some other UNIX-like OS.

Once a week I pop out the microSD card on my church’s recorder and get the sermon uploaded.

It has been almost a year and a half now of using OpenBSD on my desktop.

Table of Contents My Tools Scripts Backing Up Pruning Backups Cron Nuke Restoration Restoring Packages Bow on Top It’s not often I backup and restore my desktop, but I do like having good backups for my desktop computer, especially since I rely on it for…

In an older blog post I focused on creating FreeBSD base jails with VNET on ZFS.

Table of Contents Synapse My Setup My New Plan Set up a Virtual Machine Set up a VPN Restore my data Restoring Packages The New VPS Moving to the New Server The Problem Wrapping Up I have been paying to host my Matrix synapse server for 2.5 years now.

Table of Contents OpenBSD Initial Setup I’ve mulled over setting up a mail server for years.

Table of Contents How to Setup Resources Many years ago I was told about a way to speed up my SSH connections to servers I have recently made a connection to.

Table of Contents The Trouble USB on OpenBSD Sucks New Hardware Time Audio on OpenBSD Sucks So…What Now?

Table of Contents Where I began From Pis to Towers Changing Hardware to Changing Operating Systems More New Hardware!

Table of Contents Windows Install Woes Fixing OpenBSD Bootcode If You Read This In The Future Back in April(?)

I work primarily with Linux servers during $dayjob and sometimes come across needs where I need to have packet loss.

Table of Contents My Backup Process A Problem with Rotations Lazy Roation?

For the longest time I was running borg on my server to do backups.

Table of Contents OpenBSD Firewall Configuration acme-client configuration Webserver Configuration doas.conf AsciiDoc CSS Styles How I Generate My AsciiDoc Uploading Site Content Swapping in Your New Site Wrap Up Bonus Bonus Bonus Bonus X3 Conclusion EDIT…

From 13.0-RELEASE to 13.1-RELEASE $ zfs create -p zroot/jails/releases/13.1-RELEASE $ fetch https://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/13.1-RELEASE/base.txz -o /tmp/base.txz $ fetch https://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/13…

Table of Contents The Hardware Environment/Software First Impressions FreeBSD OpenBSD FreeBSD Experience What I Have Absolutely Hated WiFi USB Audio OpenBSD Experience Firefox Chromium Where’s Muh Erlang?

Table of Contents Mmmmm, PIE zfskeys SSH iwm(4) updates Boot Time Wrapping Up According to the FreeBSD 13.1 release schedule, the team is close to putting out the 13.1-RELEASE.

Table of Contents Update the Host Jail Updates In part 1 of my FreeBSD jail adventure, I switched from iocage to my own homespun jails.

Table of Contents Templating Site Layout Building Finishing Touches For quite some time now, I’ve always wanted a basic static blog, but never really knew what I wanted.

Table of Contents Coffee is Expensive I Make Better Coffee at Home What Do I Use?

Table of Contents TL;DR Things to Note wpa_supplicant rc.conf resolv.conf Connecting VPN Enabling the VPN Conclusion I’ve been running FreeBSD on my laptop for under a year now.

Table of Contents Creating the Release Creating Our Skeleton Templates FSTABs The jail.conf File Host Setup Enable the Service Get jib in the Right Place Configure Our Interface Jails Needing Shared Memory Update 2022-01-20 As of late I have had some pain…