Friday, October 16, 2026

Does Plex Agree With IMDb? Auditing 919 Movie Runtimes with PowerShell

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I have a lot of movies in Plex. I also have a nagging suspicion that some of them are wrong: a rip that got cut short, a theatrical cut when...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

Renaming the files ripped from Schoolhouse Rock Special 30th Anniversary Edition for Plex

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So, I am going a little bit astray this time and talking about a little bash script I had to create to rename the files I ripped from School...
Monday, August 17, 2026

Replacing hand-edited nginx with NixOS (and finding two dead config entries along the way)

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I've been running nginx on a box I call VDO for years now - it's the reverse proxy in front of a handful of self-hosted services: VD...
Friday, August 14, 2026

Create a live Linux USB drive to get started with Linux

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  Download a LiveCD from the distribution you choose to try. I am keen on openSUSE so I go to https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/?type=desk...

Wiring Up Zabbix in the Homelab: Geomaps, Broken Repos, and the 7.4 Auth Change That Bit Me

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I've been rolling Zabbix into the homelab for monitoring, and like most homelab projects, "install the agent and watch the dashboar...
Thursday, August 6, 2026

Installing VMware Workstation Pro on openSUSE: A Battle Report

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I just wrapped up the VMware Workstation Pro chapter for the book I'm writing, and it was, without question, the longest and most frustr...
Friday, July 31, 2026

Setting Up a Palworld Dedicated Server (Or: Everything I Got Wrong Along the Way)

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I run a homelab, I've got a Proxmox cluster with more hardware than any reasonable person needs, and my kid wanted a Palworld server. ...