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Seamless Remote Access to LAN Apps With SSH, Termux, and Tasker
November 8, 2022I’ve been using SSH port-forwarding, Termux, and Tasker to remotely access apps I self-host on my LAN like HomeAssistant, Navidrome, and Jellyfin without publicly exposing them. The tunnels run automatically in the background when I’m not on-LAN and stay seamlessly connected.
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Steam Deck HowTo - Installing Pacman Packages In Userspace
September 17, 2022I recently bought a Steam Deck with the intention of using it as a portable Linux machine as much as a game console. The Steam Deck has a read-only operating system root that is entirely replaced when the system is updated so executables can’t be installed normally with pacman. However, userspace is still persisted and executables can be installed there. Here’s how I set up a userspace root with
pacman -r. -
Email "Dot-Addressing"
May 8, 2022When giving out my email address, I use plus-addresses (
foobar+baz@example.com) to create unique addresses that implicitly organize my emails (and if it’s used for spam, trace back who sold/leaked it). Unfortunately not all websites accept+as a valid character and I’ve come up with something I call “dot-addresses” as a workaround. -
Kombucha Myths And Misconceptions
February 6, 2022Hobby forums on the internet often suffer from “parroting” where an idea is presented and seems reasonable enough that it finds purchase in the collective consciousness of the group. Once established, the information becomes undisputed folk-science. I had some doubts about commonly shared kombucha brewing wisdom so I dove into the research to try and parse fact and fiction.