This post documents the steps to fix an issue I was having where my second monitor that is attached to my Linux Mint laptop was not coming back on after the laptop screen blanked out. This is not sleep mode or suspend mode. This is something different where the monitor just turns off after a period of inactivity. This is what made it more difficult to troubleshoot this issue. Now my second monitor comes back on when the laptop monitor comes back on every time.

This post documents the steps to update both of my Proxmox mini PC servers from version 8 to 9, since version 8 will stop getting updates in the next two months. So this was a critical update I needed to do. It was more complicated than I thought, and it could not have been done successfully without some help. Luckily, I had some.

This post documents the steps to add Navidrome on a Proxmox server with the media being served from an external ssd attached to the Proxmox server.

This post documents the steps to add Ghost CMS on a Proxmox hypervisor, in a Ubuntu 24.04 VM behind Cloudflare Tunnel and Caddy Reverse Proxy.

This post documents the steps to add the messaging app called Telegram to Linux Mint and then connecting it to OpenClaw. In this case, I already had Telegram running on my iPhone, and I wanted to add the same interface to my management laptop - for consistency in communications across all devices used to access OpenClaw.

This post documents the steps to add a new VM - for monitoring purposes - to an existing LibreNMS setup. NOTE: This is not the full LibreNMS install.

This post documents the steps I went through to install OpenClaw in a new, empty, Ubuntu 24.04 VM on one of my Proxmox hypervisors.

This post documents the steps I went through to install the LNav log rewview application on a Linux Mint laptop.

This post documents the steps I went through to install F1 Replay Timing in a new, empty, Ubuntu 24.04 VM on one of my Proxmox hypervisors.

From time to time, I want to post something to the Pontifex site, but I only really want it to be local, sometimes because it contains sensitive information, other times it's just more a note than a post. This documents that process.