i’ve recently moved away from openWRT to OpnSense, and so far it has been a very positive move. opnsense seems like its meant to do the things i’m asking, where openWRT was just a bunch of disperate settings. one of the biggest things in helping me troubleshoot this was the way that opnsense exposes the…

another process that is more complicated than initial investigation would indicate. there are 2 ways you can do it, a push or a pull, i am going to do a push. pros/cons revolve around security, more details later. steps: on target: on source: create manual snapshot go to Data Protection –> periodic snapshot tasks then…

looking at taking my next SF cert, investigating the available options. some reference info is below. the AI exams are brand new, and are being marketed for SF as a way to demonstrate their ecosystem is strong, therefore the exams are free through dec2025. regular price of exams is: AI associate is only $100 test…

this will be an explainer about the “ip” command, and some general info about wifi commands in linux. first command we will use is ip: the “a” can be interchanged with “a”, “addr” or “address”, they all mean and do the same thing. references/further reading:

in my previous project to set up CUPS on a x86 Debian PC, i had to learn something about the su command, since the OS doesn’t come with the command bundled. i was trying to explain this within that tutorial, but realized that it’s enough to break out into it’s own section. so, a bit…

As a followup to my post about how to install Java, i want to do a bit of explaining about how to set up environment variables in windows. it’s pretty simple, but there are a lot of choices, so just doing the correct path first is the easiest. we will be creating the Java_Home variable,…

next project to work on, for this site. you’ll know its working when the pages have this! https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-display-post-excerpts-in-wordpress-themes/

problem statement: I am creating a placeholder to save my work as I go through this project. this page may not be complete or go through the whole process. i am learning how to do it on the fly as i go. i have a ‘small evap leak’ that I can’t track down, I have…

recently i had the situation where i needed to help a fellow tech enthusiast set up their Mac environment for java development. The first step is to actually get the darn thing installed, which i will try to explain and walk through below. intro first thing is a bit of background to understand how it’s…