Viewing/testing Hugo posts locally

I usually write posts and run a local instance of Hugo on a Docker container, so I can check spelling and post flow.

Most of the time, I notice something that needs to be changed prior to actually going live with a post on this site.

This is a basic walkthrough for myself on how to …

I was looking at drive utilization, and thought that my /mnt/docker/ directory was a bit bigger than I thought it should have been, so I started doing some some digging.

I found that I had a rather large log file from my Gitlab Docker container.

ls -lh *-json.log
-rw-r----- 1 root root 13G Jan 22 13:42 …

I run some Docker containers on my NAS, but ran into a hard drive space issue because of Docker:

sudo du -sh /var/lib/docker
30G	/var/lib/docker

My NAS has a 110Gb SSD for the OS (Ubuntu Server) and 4 drives in a ZFS array for storage.

By default, Docker runs everything from /var/lib/docker, but without doing some …

I had wanted to enable hardware transcoding in Plex for a while, but was under the (incorrect) impression that the CPU in the Docker host didn't support Intel Quick Sync.

Enabling hardware transcoding in Plex

Requirements for using hardware transcoding in Plex:

1. A CPU and/or GPU that supports hardware transcoding.
2. A …

Update: As of May 2023, this is still an issue, so I'm still running Plex server version 1.24.5.

I went to watch a movie using Plex, and an error popped up:

File is unplayable. Color space is not supported …

Running Plex in a Docker container is easy to set up, easy to run, and super easy to update.

I have a custom domain, and get free certificates from Let's Encrypt.

Since I already have a setup to automatically obtain/renew certificates from Let's Encrypt, I also wanted to get a certificate for my Plex install, so I can …