Problem with home labbing

April 11, 2026 Leave a comment

I have a Docker box with Portainer where you can have containers running different apps. And that is the problem. What do I put on. Pi-Hole was a fail. But what do I put on it: Immich, Jellyfin, Bitwarden or something that runs video game roms? When I first decided to this I was worried that I would be in this predicament. I have a NAS box for years and it works great storing my videos, music, pictures, documents and software. Plus do I want to give it access to the outside with a VPN or reverse proxy. I will keep at it and hope to find some that satisfy my needs.

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Homelabbing update

April 7, 2026 Leave a comment

Thought I forgot what I set the admin password for my docker box, so I wiped it and started over. Only to find out after I installed Ubuntu server that it was in my password manager. Oh well, live and learn. I have Docker back up and Portainer installed.

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Martian Mule

April 4, 2026 Leave a comment

I had the idea of a drink to serve at scifi convention room parties. It is called a Martian Mule.  Take a copper cup and fill it with 1 1/2 fluid ounces of Vodka, ice cubes, 1/2 cup of raspberry lemonade, and one wedge of a blood orange.

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News from the front of the Battle of the Bulge

March 27, 2026

I changed my app for my weight loss.  I was using MyFitnessPal.  I had a paid subscription, but it asks to sign up.  When I do it says I already have one.  I canceled it and uninstalled the app.  I changed to Lose It.  I can scan barcodes with it.  I hope I get a better expirence.

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World Con Montreal Update

March 21, 2026

I paid my membership to the Montreal World Con. I will reserve my hotel room at a latter date. Thinking about getting a suite because I want to do a party room. Called it the Cosmic Lounge and have karaoke with food and drink.

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Pizza Edible

March 20, 2026

This is a crazy idea I got from watching Chad the Bird on YouTube. He said something how humans should stay on the ground where the weed and pizza is, and I though weed in pizza. I know it is crazy and how would you do that. Then I thought could you put the weed in the pizza dough and make that the pot edible part? Or would it be better as a pizza topping? What other toppings would be good? I don’t do drugs so I don’t know how it would work. It is a crazy idea that most likely to go no where.

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The Orion Conflict

March 17, 2026

I have been working a SciFi RPG setting for Savage Worlds. One of the problems I have is with the warp drive. The SciFi Companion has it as same system, same galaxy, and different galaxy. My scope is much smaller using just a section of the milky way galaxy. Also there are 3 different warp drives calls warp-1, warp-2, and warp-3. The number is a warp factor with how many light years you can get travel in a week. Well I am going to work on it and have something that will work for my setting.

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Docker and Portainer – Home Labbing part 5

March 12, 2026

I am making progress on my Docker box. I was struggling with the Command Line Interface trying to get containers created and running. I wanted to have a Graphical User Interface and I found an app provides that and makes it much easier with Portainer.

I want to add more apps and I may want to have it be accessible to the outside that is safe. I have been looking into some ideas like Tailscale or a reverse proxy through a service like CloudFlare. I will keep you posted of my progress.

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Headaches of tech

March 10, 2026

I built a box with docker on it and I am having headaches on trying to learn it. I plan on getting some info with YouTube videos.

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Why I love sci-fi

March 9, 2026

If you have read my past posts, I love science fiction. I was in a hotel lobby in Minneapolis the Friday morning before a con called Marscon. One of the hotel workers came up to me and ask what I like about sci-fi. I gave him two answers. First answer is that they create imaginative worlds and the second is you can talk about serious subjects (i.e. racism, imperialism, colonialism, etc) that you couldn’t tell in a modern setting.

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