I recently installed WebVirtCloud for a browser-based way of administrating my KVM server remotely.

Originally, I used the auto-install script provided, which required some changes to get it to work/work correctly on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

Looking further into the auto-install script, I decided to document how to do a …

I recently bought a new headless server to handle virtual machines.

I decided to go with the built-in KVM ability of Ubuntu, and used Ubuntu Server 20.04 since it's a LTS (Long Term Support) release.

Unfortunately, there is no built-in ability to remotely manage virtual machines, and while I love the command line, I …

Each Kindle has it's own email address, which exists to allow you to email ebooks to your Kindle.

The easiest way to get ebooks from Calibre-Web to your Kindle is to add your Kindle's email address to your profile in Calibre-Web.

It's easy to do, but there are a few steps involved.

Find your Kindle's email address

Log …

I was on my mobile, looking up a few recipes, I was amazed at the number of intrusive ads I was getting, which made reading the web pages almost impossible.

Decided it was time to investigate Pi-hole, as I'd heard good things about it.

The Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, …

Damn, that was a long, drawn out title….

Basics:

• As of this writing, I’m running TrueNAS 12.2

• While I really like TrueNAS, TrueNAS/FreeNAS doesn't support Docker containers.

• The TrueNAS team is working on TrueNAS SCALE, which is Linux-based, and support Docker containers, but it’s still in alpha.

• Once TrueNAS …

While testing out TrueNAS SCALE, I wanted to do some Docker-ing, and following best-practices, I tried to configure non-root access to the Docker daemon.

Fail !

I had added my username to the existing docker group:

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

But I was still unable to use Docker, unless I was root:

docker ps
Got …