I thought it would be useful to use a load balancer with health check functionality to distribute the DNS traffic from devices [ Read More]

I wanted to use Caddy’s reverse proxy functionality so that I can browse to my web applications using DNS instead of an IP address with a port number. [ Read More]

With the release of XCP-ng 8.3 I thought it would be interesting to try XCP-ng in combination with Xen Orchestra to manage hosts and pools. I also wanted to try out XO Lite. For that I bought a small Asus NUC 14 Pro (i5 processor, 64 MB RAM, 2.5Gbe). If... [ Read More]

Once Guacamole is installed on a machine, in my case running NixOS, all you need to access your desktop environment and CLI is a web browser. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. [ Read More]

After my adventure with [[Serge LLaMA AI Chat - Windows Podman Container Setup|Serge AI Chat]] it was time to take a look at other AI tools. But now in combination with NixOS. And I would like to use the GPU this time, cuda in my case, where Serge only used... [ Read More]

Some packages are lagging behind within the default channel of NixOS. Then it is nice to have the option to use a newer package from the unstable channel [ Read More]

In this note, I’ve summarized how you can download Python packages and quickly install them offline on other machines [ Read More]

I thought it would be a good idea to install NixOS on an encrypted disk. If something happens to the PC or server, at least all my data won’t be out on the street. [ Read More]

With Cockpit Virtual Machines you can create, run, and manage virtual machines in your browser [ Read More]

With Cockpit Podman Containers you can manage Podman containers in your browser [ Read More]