I had an instance where I needed to expand a virtual Windows 10 install on my Proxmox server.

Easy enough to do, both in Proxmox and in Windows, but it requires deleting the existing recovery partition in Windows 10, as it would otherwise sit between the old hard drive size and the newly added additional space.

While …

Microsoft finally got around to allowing SSH access into Windows 10.

In a typical Microsoft way, they provide a way to do so using the GUI, and tried to hid the way to do so via the command line.

I wanted a command line way of doing it, so I could easily script it for any Windows 10 device I had to deploy, especially …

Why multiple Pi-holes and keeping them in sync

For redundancy, I run two Pi-hole instances on two different hardware devices.

Out of the box, making a change on one Pi-hole means logging into the other Pi-hole and making the same change, so the Pi-Hole instances return the same results.

Not an ideal situation, in case …

Listening to audio books

Usually when I listen to an audiobook, I listen through the Audible mobile app if the books is something I've purchased through Audbile.

I have a decent size collection of DRM-free audiobooks, and for those I use the Smart AudioBook Player Android app.

However, allowing my family to access my …

Pi-hole admin page redirect failure

I run two Pi-hole instances for redundancy, on two different hardware devices.

I ran into a small, but annoying, issue when trying to access the web admin page.

When accessing the admin web page, Pi-hole should redirect / to /admin, but it wasn't on just one of my Pi-hole instances. …

Accessing Docker-hosted apps from the Docker host

Docker containers attached to a MACVLAN network (only) can not be accessed by the Docker host.

I use a MACVLAN network for a few of my Docker containers so they appear as a separate network device to other devices on the network.

docker network ls | egrep '^NETWORK …