Hello again!

It has been a while, but I have been working hard on tech skill improvement.  Crazy hard!!!!!

I still have not updated my Proxmox instance but I will get it done before the 31^st of this month.  I need to update Portainer, Immich and setup my windows server 2022 environment again.  Right now I am working on getting a windows7 workstation setup for my games in virtualbox on my laptop.

Also working on getting Wazuh setup correctly in my environment as far as getting rules setup and file integrity and malware detection setup.  Wallabag is finally working now with no intervention on my part!  It must have been the update I ran on it a couple of weeks ago.  I have reboot the server in Proxmox and rebooted the entire Proxmox server and all my articles came back up with no issue but I have been doing my do diligent and backing it up every day or so just in case.  Working on Joplin and hoping to get off oi Evernote soon.  Technically i can do it now since I have it completely backed up to Joplin now but it is good to have a cloud backup just in case.  

I am working on my addiction with Proxmox and spinning up LXC's every other day.  I have at least 30 LXC's running on the server now with at least another 10 or so slated for install in the coming weeks.  I love Proxmox right now.  I might have a different feeling in a day or so after doing the upgrade from v8 to v9.  I am crossing my fingers and toes on that one.  It's crazy, between dockers and LXC's the number of services you can spin up in your homelab is unlimited. 

Later!

Happy Wednesday 😄😄

Server Maintenance

I have been doing server maintenance for the last couple of weeks, and I think I actually fixed my Wallabag issue with an update.  Unfortunately, due to a possible networking issue with Twingate I lost access to the console for my Proxmox server.  This forced me to reboot both my laptop and the Proxmox server running Wallabag.  I did not have to log back into Wallabag and everything just worked.  I did make sure to backup the wallabag elements before I did the reboot so i wasn't too worried, but I did not have to, thank goodness.  I have to update my Proxmox server from version 8 to 9 before the 31^st of August.  I have two options.  Run the update for updating to 8 to 9 or wipe 8 off the server and install 9 from scratch.  I have my backups for restoring my LXC's and VM's, but there is always a possibility of something going wrong.  I am going to have to "man up" and do it in the next 30 days.  Crossings my fingers!

Happy Friday 😄

Long Day!

Crazy day!  I have been working on side projects for my computer and it kind of sucks.  I had an issue with Jellyfin that I kind of got fixed.  I had to reset my password which is going to create a nightmare getting all my devices that were using the old one updated.  I thought that since I did a backdoor way to get into all my devices   I would be okay.  You see I have not been using the password for the last 5 years more or less.  I was just using the quick connect feature in jellyfin to login to my other devices using the one device I was logged into with the correct password.  It is what it is I guess!  Well, I got the password changed, checked it on my laptop and it is working.  I created a couple more accounts and did a little house cleaning in Jellyfin.  Not all my tv devices that have the old password will have to be updated, lol!  Oh well!

Also having an issue with Navidrome!  For some reason, it did not store my accounts I had created in it a couple of months ago.  I am almost positive I checked them before I closed out of that app but here we are now.  Online is saying I did not create my admin account correctly, which is probably causing the problem.  I will work on that in the morning and see if I can get it installed on the dell server in proxmox.  Right now it is running as a docker on the mini pc.

Live and learn!

Happy Wednesday 😅

Hosting LLM's is a heavy lift!

It has been a interesting weekend.  fireworks both inside and outside my house, lol!  I was able to get Open WebUI and Ollama installed on my server but it is running crazy slow due to no GPU support.  It is taking a crazy amount of time to run basic queries which kind of suck.  I am playing with the configuration to see if I can get some working better without employing a gpu but I think I might have to go with Nomad setup from Crosstalk Solutions verses what I am using now.  I did not think it would be this hard, but it is what it is, I guess!

Happy Monday 😅

Open WebUI

Okay

I have been working on getting open webui setup in my environment.  I hope to get it done today.  I have done the reading now I am ready to roll it out.  I have been envisioning several scenarios for using it in my daily workflow.  I got this!!!!!! LOL

More on Monday!

Happy Friday  😄

Growing Pains

Well, I have learned a lesson using FreshRSS.  Do not use the "Marked as read" feature until you have read all the articles/YouTube videos in your feed.  You would think it would be possible to just make individual ones as you are going through that feed list.  I don't know, it may be a me problem, but I will be more carefully in the future.  Other than that. it is working great for me.  it is nice to be able to reference recent YouTube videos in one place verses using the browser history which sometimes is a hit and miss!

Not making much headway on resolving my Wallabag issues.  Right now I am just making sure I am backing up my articles just in case I have to blow the whole thing and start over again.  I am somewhat sure I can fix it from the server but not 100% sure.  I will keep working on it!

Happ Friday 😄🤔

Wallabag ?

Wallabag may turn out to be a bust!  Once you get into the interface, it works as advertised,d but it is turning out to be very buggy!  I had to reboot my laptop and thought I could just simply click on the shortcut for wallabag and it would load no problem.  That was far from the truth!!!!  I had to do all kind of url gymnastics to get it to load and when I tried to configure the android app on my phone, the app keeps trying to go to port 80 instead of 8000 even though I have it correctly typed into the url field, weird.  It could be the way I installed it since I did use the proxmox script to set it up in proxmox, not sure!  I will keep at it for now, but I am very disappointed.

Thumbs down so far!

Happy Thursday 😞

Paperless-NGX and Wallabag

Okay

I have been playing around with paperless-ngx and wallabag for the last couple of days and of the 2 I am definitely digging wallabag more.  Paperless-NGX kind of does most of what I need a note taking app to do but it is not Joplin.  I have been having issues with getting pdf's imported into paperless-ngx and you can't really create notes in the app which is kind of strange for a note taking app.  I am also having an issue with finding where the note/pdfs I am importing into it are being stored.  I will keep it as a backup for most of my notes and pdfs files, but it will not be my daily driver for taking and updating notes. 

Now Wallabag is kind of a useful app.  One of the things I am not able to do in Joplin due to me not using Chrome as a web browser is web clip websites and store them locally.  Joplin has these feature, but it does not support Microsoft edge which I use as my web browser.  So, I will use wallabag for the web clipping part and Joplin for everything else.  Also backing up both paperless-ngx and wallabag is as simple as backing up the lxc in proxmox.  I know I am lazy, lol!  i will get the backup of just the data for them at a later date.  Pick your battles!

Happy Tuesday ☺️

Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay

I have found my replacement for all the note-taking apps I use so far.  I honestly did not think Joplin would come out on top but low and behold it is the lead contender to date.  I am able to do business cards, picture, pdfs and notes as well as encrypt them in the app.  I have to admit I did not think I was going to find something that would replace OneNote with all it features, but Joplin seems to be the one so far!  I am able to run it locally(on-prem) and it is able to sync the bigger pdf files I need stored.

Happy Happy Friday 😇

Joplin

Well I have spent the last couple of days getting Joplin setup on my server.  It was quite the project.  i was able to get 90% of my Evernote files exported to it.  These has been an enlightening couple of days.

I will be referring back to this later, lol!

Happy Thursday 😌