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Using Bluetooth to Dialup on Old PCs

Device Setup

Recommend a Raspberry Pi Zero W or Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, along with Raspbian Lite

Configuring the HC-05

Download the DSDTech configuration tool, and configure your adapter.

Pairing the Adapter

Install BlueZ on your OpenWRT box, and then pair your box with the HC-05 adapter.

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Setup new server

Create a folder for the new container files. I use ~/containers/mastodon/{addr}/.

Create the subfolders and files that we're going to need

mkdir -p backups nginx/lebase postgres14 public/system redis

Generate a password

cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc "a-zA-Z0-9" |fold -w 24 |...

What is this?

It's a blog.

Why?

I'm not entirely sure, but I have a couple of ideas:

I'm growing discontent with the fact that I'm pretty good at starting projects. I'm not good at finishing them. Maybe a project that doesn't have a finish line would be something that'd help.

I'm also pretty bad at do...

Scheduling Backups with Rclone

Backups

An introduction to rclone

Rclone is a handy little console utility that lets you work with cloud storage like you're using rsync. It's got a very long list of providers that it supports, and it'll let you setup multiple different storages of the same or different types. It offers encr...

Starting Podman Compose on Boot

This is going to be a quick and easy post while I'm working on a couple of projects, maybe related to this one.

We're going to assume that you already have podman-compose installed, and you have a folder somewhere with your compose file for use.

Find your podman-compose
Create a service file...

Using DISM/SFC to repair a corrupted Windows install

Sometimes, your computer just runs into an issue that doesn't seem to make any sense. When all else fails, it can help to try to repair any damaged or corrupted files in your Windows install. Thankfully, since Vista came out, the tools to do this have become built into Windows.