Base building adventures in Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Part I

This is Part I, introduction to basic mechanics of the game. The post got too long and became a waterhose dissertation of boring exposition instead of a fun slice-of-life record of post-apocalyptic survival. So I tried to break it apart. Expect more detailed accounts of specific adventures in later posts.…

I got the Backblaze upload integration working

After 6 hours of SSH struggles, 3 of which were unnecessary and my own fault, Backblaze upload is finally working. Believe me, I am much much more excited than the dull title implies. (This means I will probably post more in the future.) Also, I hate Ghost. When I first…

Update on home internet usage after more research

After my last post, I have been tirelessly researching in Youtube, /r/homeserver, /r/homenetworking, /r/homelab (my favorite sub by far, just because it blows my mind that an entire community of people who scrounge for enterprise equipment as a hobby exists) on the best way to improve router…

Can't let Comcast take my monthly payments for free

I'm still living with my parents (until vaccines are mass distributed and going outside without masks is mostly safe TM) for much longer than I anticipated, thanks in no small part to America's poor pandemic response. In the meantime, I've still paid my monthly internet bill, despite not having used…

I spent an entire day troubleshooting PiHole

It wasn't worth it, even though I solved it in the end. My devices were intermittently not going through the PiHole like I expected, so at random times Facebook and Twitter would magically load again. This started a wild goose chase from changing IPv6 settings to some router shenanigans, and…

Pi-Hole blocked queries are terrifying

I woke up and found that my blocked stats went from 5% to 20%. Most of these happened when I was sleeping. 80% of these blocks were while I was asleep. And every time I open an app, there are a few more queries being sent to tracking and stats.…