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What prompted this blog post? So if like myself, you’ve got a large number of openSUSE machines on your network, it can be advantageous to run a local mirror, for updates. And it just so happens that one of the openSUSE developers, firstyear, has put together a nifty caching server that really speeds all this up, the proxy-cache itself isn’t the point of this blog post, but if you want to know more, you can find it at: opensuse-proxy-cache ...

The Story. I have a machine, setup as a NAS, that lives in my closet, running TrueNAS Scale, which I also use to run some various Virtual Machines, because why not, it’s relatively beefy hardware for a NAS (Ryzen 7 5600G, 64MB of Ram), and when I built the thing, It had 4 X WD Red 2TB Drives, in a RAIDZ1, and a spare 256GB SATA SSD from an old machine, that I used for the boot-pool. ...

So if you’re anything like me, you’re aware that tools like Docker and Podman exist, which allow you to run containers on your host. Simple enough. You might also be aware of things like Docker Compose and Quadlets for automated management and bring up of those containers. Problem is, I had a pretty stupid simple little container that I wanted to bring together, and have running on a server. And for the life of me, I couldn’t find a relatively simple “How-To” online to do what I wanted to. All of the offerings that I found were dealing with big pre-built containers for things like Wordpress that have multiple containers, and setup pods, and such. All overkill and more complicated than I needed. ...

FIRST! Of course it’s the first. What else would it be. I’ve just found myself lately in need of being able to post a few things that are just longer than Mastodon really provides for. This is where I’ll do that.