FuzzyMistborn

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I've gotten a few of these now...it's the weird spam/phishing/idk what even to call this type email I've ever seen. It's so transparently bad. I guess they expect people to call that number?

Episode 1 is out! Join us as we do some introductions, discuss the new Apple Macbook Neo and talk about the issues surrounding vibecoding.

https://bitflip.show/1/

#1 — Let's do this, then. | BitFlip.show

We launch the BitFlip Show, talk homelabs and Linux journeys, debate Proxmox setups, discuss the MacBook Neo, and unpack a major AI vibe coding controversy.

The RSS feed is warmed up! Listen to a brief introduction from Alex in Episode 0!

https://bitflip.show/0/

#0 — A new beginning. | BitFlip.show

A teaser for the new show launching Friday 3/6.

Episode 1 coming Friday.

https://bitflip.show/about/

About | BitFlip.show

The pragmatic side of infrastructure. A podcast hosted by Alex, Adam, Geoff, and Stephen.

This was a fun one. Was inspired by a post on /r/selfhosted to buy a cheap $20 bluetooth label printer and set up HomeBox. Took the basic premise and (IMO) did some streamlining/improvements, and really happy with how it turned out. Been a while since I forced myself to work through a problem like that.

Now the far less fun part of cataloging all my crap....

https://blog.fuzzymistborn.com/homebox-labels-over-mqtt/

#HomeBox #HomeAssistant

Printing HomeBox QR Code Labels to HomeAssistant over MQTT

Yes, it’s the end of another year. And while I could look back and reflect on the year, I’m instead looking forward to next year and some things I want to accomplish. I’m not going to necessarily call them “resolutions” as I kinda hate that idea, but I would like to keep better track of all the stuff in my house. Things like how many of a specific smart switch I have, do I have any spare SSDs, when did I buy that TV for warranty purposes. All that info would be helpful to have in any easily accessible place.\n

Random Musings
Proxmox 9 made unprivileged LXCs pointless for QuickSync users

Proxmox 9's AppArmor 4.1 upgrade broke Intel QuickSync in unprivileged LXC containers. The workarounds require such significant security compromises that privileged containers are arguably the only realistic option now.

ktz.
Picked up Hades II last night after the 1.0 release. Instant joy. Only 2 runs in, but it's everything I enjoyed in Hades (good graphics, story, mythology) but with some nice game mechanics improvements/changes. Looking forward to working my way through!
Rewatching Gundam Wing and this scrolled across the screen. I paused to read it out of curiosity and....ummm....is that the install documentation for TWAIN?!?! That's...pretty lazy lol.

I had no idea that running containers directly on a Linux host - that happens to also be a hypervisor btw - was such blasphemy. Some of the insults have been top tier.

Some of the proxmox user base are quite hostile!

Setting up IPv6 to support Matter on #OPNSense was a bit of a struggle for me, so sharing my experience/setup in case it helps others.

https://blog.fuzzymistborn.com/opnsense-ipv6-matter/

#Matter #SmartHome #IPv6 #HomeAssistant

How to Enable IPv6 on OPNSense for Matter Support

I’ve wanted to play around with the new hot smarthome standard, known as Matter, for a while. What is Matter? Simply put it’s supposed to be an interoperable standard for all smart home devices. Big companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google are all backing the standard. The hope is to avoid the classic xkcd comic called “Standards”\nPersonally I’m not fully bought into the Matter standard as I think it has a long way to go and it needs more features/support more device types, though to the standard’s credit they’re continuing to move things along. I’ll put it this way: I’m not going to purposefully no buy a device because it supports Matter, but I’m also not going to go out of my way to buy a Matter-compliant device either. Nor am I going to go out and replace all my devices just to switch to Matter.\n

Random Musings