Notes from the sysadmin trenches, on hobby photography, and anything else that comes to mind
What Counts as “American” in a Global Internet? After deciding to move away from US-based services, a problem becomes apparent: the internet doesn’t divide neatly along national lines. Ownership, hosting, infrastructure, and governance rarely...
A couple of years ago, I started buying a few photo books. I enjoy viewing the work of photographers of various genres and generations. After too long of mostly enjoying these works only on...
The why This project didn’t start as a technical experiment. It started as a gradual loss of trust. For too long, I tolerated the current realities of modern digital life, such as the idea...
Series Introduction This blog series will document my attempt to migrate as much as practically possible of my digital life away from services owned by American companies or governed by US jurisdiction. It’s a...
After 26 years of being a customer without any major issues other than being overcharged, it’s odd that the end of my customer relationship comes with such a strong sense of relief and freedom.
One of the first apps I set up on my Photon Docker host was Nextcloud. It’s an excellent solution for synchronizing and sharing files and comes as an official docker image. However, since I...
Tweaking Photon OS to allow VS Code to connect to it over ssh
Configuring Portainer Community Edition on a newly set up Photon OS install with configuration data stored on an NFS share
Simple walkthrough on getting up and running with Photon OS 4 as a host VM on VMware vSphere 7 to run Docker containers
At work, I’ve been involved in projects over the last few years to deliver a private cloud experience to our users. One of the cornerstones in the latest endeavour has been to provide a...
Recently my trusty old main NAS, Teletraan1, started experiencing some problems. I figured I’d write down the issues and the process of choosing and setting up a replacement, to use as a background for...
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