A Navy vet who's been working in electronics and tech for over 20 years. Just sharing some knowledge, what to do and not to do.
Another note app? In the past we've looked at, and used, Obsidian and Joplin. While both are great note-taking apps I'd been looking for one that had a responsive webui and possibly the ability to use a local LLM like Ollama or Exo. Blinko is a littl...
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Recap It's been a minute since my last post, life happens, so here's a continuation of the previous post "Self-Host a Joplin Sync Server in Proxmox". In that post we set up a self-hosted Joplin sync server, here we'll use that server to sync our Jopl...
Intro In a previous post, I had written a guide to set up Obsidian and CouchDB for sync, since then I've struggled to get in a groove and keep things running. This post is the first in a two-part series on setting Joplin and hosting your own sync ser...
Recap In a previous post I wrote about creating a script to rename a Mac using the barcode1 field within JAMF. Since then we've done a few deployments and noticed a few tweaks/changes in JAMF. This post will go over what's new. Users and Passwords Th...
Why build it and what does it do A few weeks ago my supervisor gave me a challenge to see if I could come up with a workflow for a particular problem we were having. We wanted to get Pre/ACT letters into our SMS(Student Management System), which in o...
What is this tool and who is it for? About 2 years ago the school I work for used a script they found, on JAMF Forums or StackOverflow probably, to rename static iMacs, Mac Minis, and MacBooks, through pre-stage enrollment using the serial number to ...
Perplexica and Ollama Setup Are you in the self-hosted camp, enjoying Ollama, and wondering when we'd have something like Perplexity AI but local, and maybe a bit more secure? I had been keeping an eye out when I came across an article on MARKTECHPOS...
Re-cap Just over three weeks ago I wrote a post titled: Setting Up an Ollama + Open-WebUI Cluster, where I went over my first experiment in creating a entry barrier node for what was to become an Ollama cluster. In short, I could see the card but per...
