The foundation of my homelab is Proxmox, an open-source virtualization platform that allows me to run virtual machines and containers on my hardware. In this post, I'll walk through the installatio...

Overview As people play around with ChatGPT, I've been seeing all sorts of reactions, and all sorts of things those people are trying. For me, one of the first places I gravitated to was to help m...

Overview There are times when you need to expand the size of a disk or volume in a virtualized environment, and you'd ideally want to do that without having to move or copy files. This page shows ...

Overview A key part of using VirtualBox is knowing that there is technology like the "VirtualBox Guest Additions". What this is, are libraries and drivers that tell the hosted operating system, th...

Overview Suppose you want to play around with Linux and maybe you've heard people talking about Ubuntu. But you don't have an extra computer laying around to try it, and you certainly don't want t...

Overview There are several scenarios where you might run a server. In cases like cloud providers (e.g. Digital Ocean, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, etc) - you typically just choose an OS option, an...

Overview There are several scenarios where you might run a server. In cases like cloud providers (e.g. Digital Ocean, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, etc) - you typically just choose an OS option, an...

Overview It's important to keep your servers patched to the latest, stable version of software. Patching often is risky; patching rarely is risky. There will always be risk. However, Linux patchin...

Overview PLEASE NOTE: This only applies to older, non-M1 Apple hardware. If you attempt this on an M1 device, you'll get an error during installation that only amd64 processors are supported. ...

Overview Ideally, when you create new servers, you want to turn OFF SSH password authentication and only allow SSH key logins. This eliminates the possiblity of bad-actors trying to brute-force th...