I maintain two Proxmox servers and keep a fully updated Ubuntu Server 24.04 template VM ready for deployment. This template includes SSH with my key pair, Fish shell, ATUIN, Docker, Docker Compose, and my user configured in the Docker group. When deploying a new VM from this template, I only need to update the IP address, configure a static DHCP reservation, change the hostname, and install the target application. I keep the master template on NUC5. For deployments on NUC5, I clone the template directly. For deployments on NUC3, I copy the template over first, then complete the configuration. This document outlines the steps to transfer the template between servers—a process I perform infrequently enough to warrant documented procedures.

Updated my Linux Mint 22.2 laptop to use pipewire instead of pulse audio that I've been using for almost a year due to original sound issues with the laptop. This document also details the installation and setup of a program called Easy Effects which is a sound program add-on to be able to fine-tune the sound coming from your speakers in my case laptop speakers.

Complete guide to download, set up, and run Whisper AI on a Linux Mint (Ubuntu) laptop. Have tried the tiny, base and small models, and they are close in speed to Whisper AI. The small model is a little slower in my testing but very accurate. Note: this setup also gives you the ability to explicitly set the number of processors to work on the translation part. These instructions explicitly set it to 8 threads, which you can change to whatever you want.

Simple to follow general rules to update docker compose installed applications like Immich, Mealie, Paperless-ngx, etc.

This documents the physical location of the images stored on my Proxmox server for the application called Immich running in a VM on that same host. The physical location is tricky since the app is on one ssd, backups on another ssd and data on yet another ssd. I did this for me when I go looking for the physcial location every 6 months and forget how to do it.

A simple tutorial for setting up SSH access into a new Ubuntu server and adding SSH to your managment pc or laptop. Bonus section on setting up SSH key pair acess as it is much easier in the long term.

A simple tutorial for adding and sizing images in markdown files using VS Code, with practical examples for Linux documentation websites.

You spun up a VM, added applications to it and realized later on you made it too small since you are using it more and more and it is growing. Possibly you got warnings about it being critically short of space. This article shows how to make the VM larger than what you inititally set it up with.

Step-by-step guide to create your first virtual machine on Proxmox using Ubuntu 24.04 Server. Covers downloading the ISO, uploading to Proxmox, VM creation, and basic Ubuntu installation with SSH enabled.

This article documents the general steps I followed to install Proxmox servers on two mini PCs, where I replaced Windows 11 Pro with Proxmox. For a total beginner, my advice would be to feed this into Claude or ChatGPT and have them walk you through it step by step. But, read it first and try to understand as much as possible, as Claude and ChatGPT can and will make assumptions that may turn out not to be true for your installation.