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How to configure a …

Intro After deploying the MeshCentral agents to my VMs, I noticed that some of them produced an error screen complaining about Xwayland. This was as simple as modifying a config file and restarting a service. Modifying custom.conf Depending on your system, you will have to navigate to /etc/gdm or …

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Enable implicit consent …

Intro Enabling SSO for all self-hosted services that support it has been one of the best decisions in my homelab. It has created a seamless “ecosystem” experience for my friends and family (mainly myself 🥲). The problem is that every time I logged in to my services, it prompted me with a …

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Set up Plausible …

Intro In the search for an open-source Google Analytics alternative, two options stood out Matomo and Plausible. I wanted the tool to be privacy-friendly and that it did not require cookies, avoiding those pesky consent prompts. I did not find a straightforward guide to self-host Plausible with a …

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Set up Outline Wiki with …

Intro I started using Notion’s free tier as a knowledge bank for a side project. It’s measley 1000 blocks were capped quickly and searching for an alternative lead to Outline. Outline is 100% free, selfhostable, and has a very similar featureset. Most of the guides out there configure …

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Set up a ramdisk for Plex

Intro Always on the lookout to decrease writes on my consumer SSDs, I stumbled upon the idea of a ramdisk for Plex transcodes. In theory it should offer a performance boost, but in practice I did not really notice any improvements besides lowering SSD writes. Editing fstab Navigate to /etc/fstab and …

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iDRAC 9 manual fan …

Intro I recently acquired a Dell Poweredge T440, and after installing a GPU the fans skyrocketed. This turned the server into a noise machine. To solve this, I created a script that disables third-party PCI mode and based on a threshold, set the fan speed to 20% or to be controlled by Dell’s …