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Kindle Jailbreaking
After getting frustrated with Amazon randomly deleting some books from my Kindle I finally decided to get it together to jailbreak the thing. And boy was it a journey. I have a 7th Gen Kindle from 2014 that I’ve had on airplane mode for years. A lot of years. It was still on FW 5.6.X.…
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Using And Consuming Tech
The advent of the tablet and smart phone have solidified a wedge in society that was pioneered by the colorful Macs o the early 2000s. The difference between those who consume technology and those who use it. This divide is between those who repair, who tinker and those who purchase. When a device breaks or…
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Proxmox Is Dying, Long Live Proxmox
I woke up one morning to notice that this blog, my AdGuard, and everything else hosted on Proxmox was offline. Thankfully the AdGuard sync was working great and the secondary instance was handling all of the traffic as expected. The Proxmox UI was unresponsive. The power was on on the server but I hard rebooted…
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Running High Availability Adguard Home
I’ve been on the Adguard home train after getting my new Proxmox box and trying it out as a replacement for PiHole. It turns out, it’s great! A ton of great features that make PiHole look quite ancient (which I suppose it is). After blowing up DNS again due to my attempt to use Komga…
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Thinking About Burnout
I burned out hard at my last gig. It was the first time I’d experienced burnout like that and even though I knew what was happening, it felt entirely out of my control. Now that I’ve had a substantial amount of time off and have started a new gig, it has given me the opportunity…
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Repeatedly Blowing Up A Homelab With Komga
Komga, the comic book media server. I’ve had a ubooquity server for a long time. Very minimal, based entirely around file paths. It’s utilitarian but it has worked. And a lot of comics have been acquired over the years. But I wanted something better, something more modern. Something like Plex or Jellyfin but for comicbooks.…
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RUNBOOK: METATRON — macOS Installation
METATRON is an AI-powered network reconnaissance and vulnerability analysis tool. It combines classic scanning utilities (nmap, nikto, whatweb) with a local Ollama LLM to automatically analyze results, suggest fixes, and log findings to a MariaDB database — all from a single terminal interface. Tested on macOS (Apple Silicon). All deviations from the original Linux README…
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RUNBOOK: Prometheus + PVE Exporter on Proxmox (LXC)
Overview Sets up Prometheus and prometheus-pve-exporter as separate LXC containers on a Proxmox host, using community helper scripts. Grafana is assumed to run elsewhere and is not covered here. Architecture: Proxmox host — runs LXC containers, exposes API for monitoring LXC: prometheus — collects and stores metrics LXC: pve-exporter — polls Proxmox API and exposes…
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A Quick Moment of Ubiquiti Joy
I was recently on a roadtrip and found myself in a hotel room with some time to kill. I wanted to continue setting up this site but realized that I hadn’t set up my VPN before leaving. I went to ui.com and accessed my site from there. Then I configured an OpenVPN server and user.…