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Installing Codecs on Rocky Linux 10 and Firefox

How do you install codecs on Rocky Linux 10. First, install RPM Fusion. The instructions are on their website. Next, enable CRB: Now, install the codecs via dnf: After that, the codecs should work on Firefox:

How I recovered from Mastodon/Fediverse (actually Akkoma) database corruption

I moved domains again, this time from sour.coffee to momandpop.network. I also run Fediverse servers. Why so quickly? In the typical AuDHD fashion, I didn’t like sour.coffee too much. I run a VPS host for a living, and have two VPSes running not-Tor exit relays: one running my legacy neelc.org domain (running Rocky Linux 9) […]

Doing VLAN trunk and access ports on MikroTik CRS/RouterOS

Most of the switches in my homelab are MikroTik CRS switches, although I am getting a UniFi PoE switch (MikroTik didn’t make a 2.5G PoE switch, that’s why). I use two CRS304-4XG-IN switches to connect desktop computers to the 10G LAN, but wanted my desktops on a separate VLAN. On my network, I use VLAN […]

Running WPA3-Enterprise in my home network

It’s no secret that by now, most home networks use WPA-Personal. Why? It’s a simple password. This included mine. Well, until today. I always wanted to try WPA3-Enterprise in my home network, at least on the SSID/VLAN for my devices (versus the rest of my family). The roadblock was FreeRADIUS not working with Samba and […]

Cloning a Calix GPON ONT or Quantum Fiber SmartNID

WARNING: This guide is for instructional purposes only. I am not responsible for any damages caused by this guide. This guide may violate your ISP’s terms of service and is possibly illegal. Proceed at your own risk. I also no longer live in CenturyLink/Quantum territory. While I now live in Verizon territory (and lack Verizon […]

An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review

I’ve always wanted an ARM server in my homelab. But earlier, I either had to use an underpowered ARM system, or use Asahi which not only requires expensive Mac hardware but also slowed down in the past few years. Then Minisforum introduced the MS-R1 Mini PC. Two MS-01s were already incumbent in my homelab when […]

Rocky Linux/RHEL 10: Fixing “Invalid UID in persistent keyring name” with AD and SSSD

I run a Samba Active Directory in my homelab, with a Wireguard VPN to my dad’s house between my and his MikroTik routers. I recently reinstated the HPE ProLiant ML30 Gen9 running Rocky Linux 10 colocated at his house. With that, I rejoined the server to a new AD domain I made. I wasn’t able […]

Creating a Samba Active Directory Domain Controller on FreeBSD

While I now use Fedora as my main desktop and Rocky Linux as my server OS, there are some things which aren’t in the EPEL. That combined with me not having really used Debian since high school means I set up homelab Samba domain controllers on FreeBSD. To set one up, you need a static […]

Implementing Carrier Grade NAT and Port Block Allocation on FreeBSD and PF

While I don’t run an ISP (unless you consider my hosting company Fourplex an “ISP”), one project I’ve wanted to try in my homelab is implementing Carrier Grade NAT with Port Block Allocation. Yes, we all know Carrier Grade NAT sucks. It makes it hard to host services and use console gaming and such. And […]

MikroTik: Add DNS Forwarding Entry for Active Directory DNS

Also, why didn’t anyone tell me about match-subdomain=yes? For almost two years, my homelab’s core router has been a MikroTik, namely a CCR2004-16G-2S+ and then a CCR2004-16G-2S+PC. I also run a FreeBSD Samba Active Directory domain controller. The common ‘solution’ is to use domain wildcard regex and that’s usually not pretty. Then I learned about […]