Salty Old Geek
Dave Gaunky

Dave Gaunky

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.

Self-Host a Joplin Sync Server in Proxmox

Oct 10, 20243 min read

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...

Self-Host a Joplin Sync Server in Proxmox

Fixing JAMF Renaming Script Issues

Aug 19, 20242 min read

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...

Fixing JAMF Renaming Script Issues

Easily Split and Rename PDFs for Skyward

Jul 29, 20245 min read

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...

Easily Split and Rename PDFs for Skyward

Rename macOS Devices with JAMF API Tokens

Jul 22, 20243 min read

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 macOS Devices with JAMF API Tokens

Self-Hosting Perplexica and Ollama

Jul 8, 20242 min read

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...

Self-Hosting Perplexica and Ollama

Round Two: Enhancing the Ollama Cluster

Jul 8, 20242 min read

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...

Round Two: Enhancing the Ollama Cluster