Code Transfer WhatsApp Messages from Android to iOS After nearly a decade, I decided to switch back to iPhone for the first time since the iPhone 4. I was willing to spend an afternoon redownloading all my apps and meticulously signing in to each one, but my years of chat history on WhatsApp eluded me. Currently, there is
Code Proxmox GPU Passthrough Guide My wife and I recently started playing Cities: Skylines together with a multiplayer mod, but her older MacBook Pro wasn't powerful enough, causing the server to throttle my game to allow hers to catch up. With the ongoing chip shortage and crypto boom, buying new hardware to remedy this issue
Code Using the OpenFaaS IngressOperator with Traefik v2 on Kubernetes Lately, I have been migrating the public services I have running on a DigitalOcean Droplet to a cluster of Raspberry Pis running K3s at home. To simplify the development workflow for my projects I have converted many of them to OpenFaaS functions that run on the cluster. As many of
Code Migrate from Authy to Another 2FA App With the recent changes to LastPass Free limiting the types of devices you can concurrently use with one account, I decided now was the time to migrate to a new service. I settled on a self-hosted instance of Bitwarden, specifically the bitwarden_rs implementation in Rust that allows me to
Code How to Create and Enable Swap in Linux Running low on memory can cause applications to crash, the system to become unresponsive, and other issues. This is common on memory limited systems, especially on SBCs like the Raspberry Pi. Swapping to disk can be used to allow for some extra breathing room at the cost of performance. You
Code Raspberry Pi iSCSI Root on Ubuntu 20.04 Over the holidays, I wanted to build a Kubernetes cluster on some Raspberry Pis I had, which were collecting dust. I spun up a simple Rancher K3s cluster, but quickly discovered they were heavily IO-bound. I decided that if I was going to use this cluster for real applications, I
Code How to Downgrade Steam Games Yesterday, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI got a new update for the New Frontier Pass. This update had the unfortunate side effect of breaking compatibility between the Windows and macOS versions of the game, meaning that when the two versions tried to join an online game it would spit out
Code Making a piSCSI USB Drive — Part 2 Continuing directly from my previous post, I have received my RockPi 4b in the mail and, using the exact same methods outlined before, have set it up for OTG and iSCSI. To automate these steps, I created a simple script that initiates the device and starts the mass storage module,
Code Making a piSCSI USB Drive — Part 1 I use my home Synology NAS to consolidate nearly all my data in one place. One exception to this is my PlayStation 4, which can connect to the NAS to consume media, but not to store games or backups. As my console’s hard drive quickly filled up, I had
Code Disable Sleep Timer on Bose SoundTouch SoundTouch speakers have an inactivity timer that will put them into a low power mode after 20 minutes. At home I use a Chromecast Audio with my Bose SoundTouch 10 over AUX. In this case and with other always-on audio devices such as the Google Home or Amazon Alexa, this
Code Backup Authy with mitmproxy Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an essential part of internet security, but when using OTP generators you run the risk of account lockout if you lose access to your device. Authy allows you to backup your encrypted secrets to their servers, but I like maintaining backups of my own, just in
