Occasionally, Whisper AI stops transcribing, and this post just serves to remind me how to quickly get it back up and running again, as it is only one small piece of code to change once, then change back immediately after it starts working again. Less than a five-minute fix now that I have it documented.

“I recently realized that I did not have a reliable, easy, and secure way to copy my OneDrive contents to my local machine. I decided to set up Rclone for this job after reviewing options with Claude. This post shows how I did that, but be mindful that this is not a ‘generic’ setup as it is specific to my current workflows.”

Over the past several months, I have accumulated many PDFs of practice piano sheets, many piano scores that I printed out, and many lessons that I downloaded. And I got to the point where the amount of information I had was kind of overwhelming me as to what to focus on to continue learning and improving my piano skills, which was THE POINT of the whole thing. After a long debate, I decided Obsidian was what I was going to use and I was also going to use Syncthing, so that I could put everything in my Proxmox Samba storage VM. In this case, it is the same VM that holds all my piano videos, so whatever I did on my laptop was automatically synced to my Samba storage VM. This project, therefore, is helping me learn about Obsidian as a more comprehensive note-taking, task-building app, Syncthing, and how that is all set up and how it works, and ultimately make me a better piano player through improved focus, documentation, and efficiency of practice.

This post documents the step by step process to create a new Ubuntu 24.04 VM on my Proxmox hypervisor from an existing Ubuntu 24.04 VM that is fully up to date and contains extras like Atuin, Fish, frequently run scripts, Docker, etc. This is a little tricky because the existing VM is NOT a Proxmox template therefor once a copy is created (on the same Proxmox server) there are several imporant things that must be done to make it a fully usable VM ready for a new application to be installed into.

This post documents the few steps I must follow each month when I do a backup of my docker-compose.yml files across my many applications running in VMs on Proxmox hypervisors. I just back them up to my local laptop and then I push them to a local Git repo that runs on its own VM. This updated document also describes the automation built into the script much better.

This post documents the process I went through to provide a way to manually sync my most important folders on my laptop to an external drive so that if I ever changed Linux distribution, I could easily copy them all back and they would be up to date to the last rsync I ran, which is weekly.

There is an older, shorter version of this process on Pontifex.site but the process keeps getting refined as I acquire more information about best practices,and improved documentation methods, and this post documents the most up to date version of that process.

In my home lab, most of my Docker apps run in their own VMs on Ubuntu servers, which are on Proxmox hypervisors. As a continual test, I have one VM that contains 22 Docker containers, which I believe is seven or eight individual applications. I was looking for a simple way to check this particular VM for any Docker container updates, and I ran across DockPeek, I believe, on one of the Reddit boards for self-hosting. This post details the steps I went through to install DocPeak on this particular Ubuntu VM with all these Docker containers, and TL:DR - it works great for what I needed it to do.

This short tutorial shows how to set a static IP address for one of your Ubuntu or Debian based servers using the command line or Linux or similar Linux desktop environments like Mint through the GUI.

The project goal was to be able to stream YouTube videos that were downloaded using MeTube, over a tailscale connection where the player streaming the video was minimized, so just the audio could be listened to instead of having to watch the video as well. The videos were downloaded to an external SSD attached to a proxmox server, and the whole thing was turned into a network Samba server for file storage. The videos were the first item put on it.