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Switching between Safari Profile Windows - Not Creating New Ones

Safari Profiles are a great power user tool. If you'd like to separate concerns like between work, personal, side projects – make a profile for each one.

Placement Rules in Ceph S3

Placement rules in ceph are a method to assign a specific data pool, index pool and extra pools to a particular bucket. Placement rules are assigned to buckets at the time of creation and cannot be...

Fix Login Delay on Debian LXC on Proxmox

I recently migrated my ingress from a VM to a container on Proxmox. The primary motivation was that the VM, running Docker with a web server container, was frequently encountering space constraints....

Safari goes nuts everytime I watch a YouTube Video

So I was watching kitze's latest video on why you shouldn't build in public maybe on Safari and my Airpods Pro 2 make the same stuttering / chopping sound with the audio and video falling out of...

Obsidian vs Calendar Reminders and Obsidian

Since humankind evolved, one question has persisted: to obsidian or to obsidian with other tools in parallel. This note tries to balance out the equation by throwing in some personal observations...

TLS Handshake Timeout in Docker Containers within Proxmox SDN

I use Proxmox SDN and a eVPN Zone as my main network which means the default MTU is 1450.

Things to do after installing Proxmox

There are a few tweaks I make after installing proxmox. This is when installing Proxmox is done through the provided liveiso. Usually though however I use the OpenZFS guide to install Debian first...

Unsupported File Formats in iOS Photos - H264 Main-L6

It turns out iOS Photos does not support H264 files that have the profile Main@L6 and apparently, also SVG. For a list of supported formats for Photos, Apple says this:

Resisting Craft V3

In a time when everybody on X is hyping up the newest release of Craft Docs, I have a few counterpoints to make. But first, let’s take a look at the product.

The Password Manager Situation

Password managers have come a long way, and so have my requirements. Back in 2019, I started looking into Password Managers (or even before that, I don't remember really) after getting increasingly...

BusyCal vs Fantastical

On MacOS, Fantastical and BusyCal are both excellent choices, with very few things left to personal preference.

Time Flies By

Time-blocking is a very interesting idea that floats around the internet, with several people planning out their days, weeks, months and even a year in advance. Of course, those plans are never...

Keep Playing Audio in Safari When Switching to Another Tab Group

Safari has this annoying issue as a feature, and it gets increasingly frustrating the more I ignore it - when content (like YouTube, a Google Meet session, etc) has audio playback in one tab, and...

Stop Whining, Instead Explore

Make Proxmox Console Work Reliably with a Load Balancer

Everybody around me knows that I am a big fan of Proxmox but very few people know that even though I load balance it, my heart races everytime I click on the console page of any VM or Container, and...

Getting Forwarded IPs Right with Cloudflare

When the orange cloud is ticked on Cloudflare DNS records, every request is proxied by Cloudflare.

Using Caps Lock as NOT the Hyper Key

Instead of going the regular route and using Caps Lock as a hyper key / hyper key layer, I tried to use it with the new feature from BetterTouchTool, which blocks (and releases) keyboard input...

Virtual Router in Proxmox with the Skullsaints Onyx

Alright, everybody pretty much knows this but since I am speaking to the larger public here: my homelab isn't really at home. It's actually a proxmox cluster from the Hetzner auction, servers that I...

Storage Classes in Ceph S3

Storage classes in ceph correspond to a certain data pool. They are a subsection of placement rules that link them to data pools. A storage class is unique to a placement rule but placement rules...

No Longer a Journal Virgin

I remember as a kid when, each year, was a welcome to a brand new year of new diaries which meant a brand new attempt at journaling. Of course I would start on a whim, yet full of inspiration, make...

Long Live Wordpress

The migration is complete. Wordpress was still temporarily active to give me ample time to migrate posts. However, as open source goes, somebody somewhere has attempted something similar and my job...

Firefox Profile Downgrade

Sometimes it's useful to test stable versions of firefox as the beta and nightly versions may have some bugs that haven't made their way to stable yet. One such bug is the one I encountered today,...

Changing Wordpress URL

My wordpress instance was hosted at https://kayg.org, however I replaced it with Quartz before exporting / importing content. Therefore, I need it accessible over at https://wp.kayg.org so I can...

Difference Between OSD Reweight and CRUSH Reweight

ceph has two ways of changing an OSD's weight.

T7 Shield - APFS vs NTFS

I got the 4 TB Samsung T7 Shield back in August or October 2023 for a very appealing price of 24k INR but it has sat in my bag since, except for a benchmark that I ran once or so and never published...

Retrieving the correct IP address for a Caddy-Wordpress stack

Now the problem with using the plugin was that when I enabled Brute-Force protection, the only IP that would get blacklisted all the time was an internal IP. It would lock me out. I shamelessly...

CosmicByte Firefly: Mechanical Keyboard on a Budget - First Impressions

Having bought my first mechanical keyboard, it felt apt that I get into the unboxing game but when I noticed that the chaotic packaging containing just the keyboard, an unboxing video would have...

List (2011), dir. Hong Sang-soo

Mind Game (2004), dir. Masaaki Yuasa

Following (1998), dir. Christopher Nolan

Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), dir Hong Sang-Soo

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016), dir. Karan Johar

Dunkirk (2017), dir. Christopher Nolan

Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000), dir. Hong Sang-Soo

The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (1996), dir. Hong Sang-soo

The Power of Kangwon Province (1998), dir. Hong Sang-soo