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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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. …

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When using Github or a Gitlab instance, I typically use a specific key.

By default however, Gitlab/hub will only try to use the default name of ~/.ssh/id_rsa, and then fail if that key isn't the one specified in your Gitlab/hug profile.

On Github, I added the public key that the corresponding private key is ~/.ssh/git. …

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Most computer new computer hardware that will fail quickly, will fail within the first month of usage, if not sooner.

Given that, it's recommended to do a burn-in test for any new computer hardware, including hard drives.

I've been using a disk burn-in test to stress test hard drives as I've been replacing them in my …

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