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  2. Install homes - step 2

    Time to carry on with the changes to set up the machine correctly. Here is a TLDR of this entry

    • Setup a bridge device - no problems
    • Setup time synchronisation - no problems
    • Setup kvm - a bit of back and forth about a installing the monolithic daemon vs using separate daemons, but …
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  3. Install homes - step 1

    Ok, I bought an HP Prodesk 400 G6 with 64 Gigs of Ram and 2T SSD. I want to use it as a hypervisor for my homelab, spawning virtual machines.

    I will use arch linux as a hypervisor.

    First, I create a USB drive that will be used to boot …

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  4. Mania 1 - Make PCBs at home

    For some reason I have several traumas stuck with me from childhood. They evolved into periodically appearing activites searching for solutions for problems that are already solved. I could fight them and make myself understand that my time is not worth spending with them, but they keep coming up. They …

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  7. Updating Home Server

    Wuff, that was a long time ago. Let me see how I can log in to that machine at all.

    $ ssh homer

    That worked, but I need to be superuser as well.

    [matelakat@homer ~]$ sudo -i

    Ok, worked like a charm. Let me see what VMs are running on it …

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  8. Install error when updating kernel

    So I want to update my machines. And I was using ansible to do it with the yay module. Then I was unable to boot up my machine.

    The truth to be told I have a bit of esoteric configuration, because I am mounting my efi root under the /efiroot …

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  10. Home Server from a laptop - homer

    I recently acquired a Lenovo L470 laptop for cheap, and I will be using it as a hypervisor to run my home automation VM on it.

    Basically the benefit is that it consumes low power, has a built-in UPS, a built-in keyboard and screen.

    First, I create a USB drive …

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  11. Sous Vide Pork Shoulder Chops

    I am cooking pork shoulder the second time. Previously I cooked it in one piece then chilled and cut it to slices, based on this video. He said

    • Use collar cut
    • 0.5% salt per mass
    • 16...48 hours
    • 60 degrees celsius

    Now wife brought me some chops, quite thin …

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  13. First Post Using Pelican

    This is my attempt of an Article with Pelican. You can call it a blog. Basically, I had to configure pelican as follows:

    ARTICLE_PATHS = ('articles',)

    Then created a file under content/articles/first-post.md with the content:

    Title: First Post
Date: 2024-11-01

... What you read went here

    And that is …

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  14. Virsh not listing me domains

    I used this: virsh list and then virsh list --all, but none of the vms defined in my virt-manager are visible.

    When running it with sudo it worked, but who wants to do that?

    Then I found this link that solved my pain. Making a note here for myself as …

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