While there are a lot of annoying things on Facebook, including Facebook itself, Facebook Reels have to be about the most annoying.

If I wanted "reels", I'd go to Instagram, or TikTok, or one of the many other applications that show short videos.

I keep clicking on Facebook Reels, and selecting "Not …

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

I've documented it before, in both 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. …

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I have a Windows 10 template that I use in Proxmox when I have the need to actually use Windows 10.

It has a 50Gb hard drive configured, which most of the time, is more than enough drive space.

However, I did run into an instance where I needed to expand the hard drive from 50Gb --> 100Gb for a test I was running. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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