At some point, Ubuntu changed how you set the time zone from the command line.

The new way involves the command timedatectl

Check the current time/date/timezone:

timedatectl
               Local time: Fri 2021-06-04 18:19:45 UTC
           Universal time: Fri 2021-06-04 18:19:45 UTC
                 RTC time: Fri …

On bootup, my new Ubuntu server was stalling for ~2 minutes, while bringing up the network.

The message I saw was ". . . a start job is running for wait for network", which turns out was due to waiting for the 2nd (unused) interface to come up.

Of the 2 interfaces on the box, only one was connected:

ifconfig …

When installing Ubuntu server (20.04) on a Dell T7600, I ran into an issue when trying to boot from UEFI mode.

I'd get the error:

Failed to set MokListRT: Out of Resources

and then the server would just shut off.

I could boot from Legacy (non-UEFI mode), but it bugged me, as I knew the version of Ubuntu server …

I needed to run a quick test on a virgin Linux system.

Rather than spinning up a virtual machine, I just ran a single Docker command, and was up and running.

docker run -it --entrypoint "/bin/bash" ubuntu:latest

That's it. Really, it's that simple.

From the Docker docs:

An ENTRYPOINT allows you to configure a …

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 …