Exploring Docker containers on FreeBSD

       1640 words, 8 minutes

When it comes to running (Linux) Docker containers on BSD hosts, I usually end up popping an Alpine or Debian virtual machine with the Docker engine. But I read that podman was available on FreeBSD and able to run Docker containers. Here’s what I learned, so far.

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Slackware on encrypted ZFS root

       1267 words, 6 minutes

My Slackware laptop was doing well with LUKS/LVM/EXT4 but after some Fediverse discussion, I decided using ZFS would be safer for my data. The problem is OpenZFS is not integrated into the Linux kernel and not that well integrated into Linux distribution in general. That said, Ubuntu offers an integrated option and other distros have documentation about such cases. Those are my notes dedicated to The Slackware Linux Project .

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Software-control a Dell monitor KVM from Linux

       698 words, 4 minutes

I own a DELL U2723QE 4K monitor that ships with a KVM so that I can connect two computers. One via an USB-c connection and one via either an HDMI or a DisplayPort connector. Switch to either is controlled by a physical button on the back of the screen. But it can also be done software-wise.

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Check your IP infos using nginx

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There are a few times when I want to check which public IP I am browsing from… I used to use the WhatsMyIP sites but the Internet being what it is these days, I switched to using my SearXNG instance which has the IP plugin enabled. Still, there are times I need to get my IP from a script and want a dead simple option for this. So I switched to using nginx and GeoLite2.

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Migrate a KVM virtual machine to OmniOS bhyve

       314 words, 2 minutes

Because I am replacing my Linux KVM machine with an OmniOS bhyve server, and I don’t want to reinstall all my VMs, I went for migrating those. And because I am not aware of vMotion-like feature between those two platforms, I just used the shell.

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