Alex Kretzschmar

Earlier this year I decided to try and set myself the ambitious goal of reading a book. Yes, you read that right. One book.

There is no doubt we're living through a seismic change in how we interface with computers. I have spent the last 15+ years learning a craft, how to adminster and interface with Linux. But I'm starting to feel a shift in my own behaviours, which fills me with awe and simultaneously makes me deeply uncomfortable. I wanted to take a moment to share a slice of that journey with you today. Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. Picture this. Sitting on the couch with my 5yo daughter watching a new favourite show o

Proxmox 9 looks great, but AppArmor keeps getting in the way

Proxmox 9's AppArmor 4.1 upgrade broke Intel QuickSync monitoring in unprivileged LXC containers. The workarounds require such significant security compromises that privileged containers are arguably the only realistic option now.

Like most things, getting Quicksync working on NixOS with a motherboard that has IPMI and a 13th gen Intel chip is quite simple once you know how. The complexities come from ensuring users are in the right groups, and you have the correct arrangement of packages in the hardware.opengl configuration. nix-config/hosts/nixos/morphnix/default.nix at main · ironicbadger/nix-configContribute to ironicbadger/nix-config development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubironicbadger I'll include a mi

When flashing the brand new Unraid 7 to a USB stick earlier today I did something silly. I configured a static IP that conflicted with another host in the same LAN. This meant I couldn't access the Unraid UI to fix it. However, by modifying one file in the /boot directory by hand we can set a static IP easily and quickly. In Unraid land, the /boot directory is persisted on the USB stick the system boots from. To make changes to this file, open the command line interface to your Unraid system e

No matter how hard I try to fully switch over to Nix, I always seem to end up back at the altar of Ansible. This post isn't about Nix so I won't go into some of my frustrations there (yet!). This post is about my newly rekindled relationship with the old, trusty, git submodule. Git submodules effectively allow you to embed one repo inside another whilst retaining complete independence of the embedded repo. For example, it is common in Ansible to import roles from external sources. Simply add th

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