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I have a love hate relationship with my Linux home lab right now. When it works I feel like 90s movie hacker. When it doesn’t I slam my head into the keyboard.

Since experimenting with homelab stuff, there is a few applications that have become invaluable to me. Specifically VaultWarden and Joplin.

I went on a short vacation with my wife and when I returned I began to have login issues. Joplin was telling me I had an invalid username and pass and Vaultwarden would connect via browser but not with my Brave extension.

Running “docker ps” showed all the containers were running, so that left a authentication certificate issue. Not that I understand a whole lot about how caddy works, but I suspected it to be the issue.

Up till now I was accessing my apps by using a .local address. So for the sake of doing it “right” I purchased a new domain just for my homelab to link to.

I don’t know. Its still broke. So we’ll see.

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Saw this on X today today. User Marshall Richards shows Minecraft server running off of a cheap $30 Straight Talk android phone.

This was just too cool not to bookmark. This gave me the idea to pull out some of my old android phones and find a Linux distro to throw on them.

Also, I want to drop this link to Marshall’s GitHub. He reverse engineered the API for those “toy” drones.

My wife bought me one last year, but I hated the proprietary controller app it used.

Marshall Richards GitHub – Drone

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Is It The Year Of Linux?

Alright, so I know it isn’t much but here we are. I started using Linux again a few months ago and WOW!

It has gotten much better! My previous experience with Linux something like 15 years ago. I was in high school and thought I’d give that cool Ubuntu operating system a try.

I couldn’t play most of my PC games then, so it didn’t last long.

The “Rice”

This is probably the most lackluster rice you’ve ever seen, but I’m happy with it for the moment.

I’m running Pop OS since it plays better with my Nvidia GPU with the default GNOME DE.

GNOME Tweaks and Extensions is a must.

The GNOME extension “Open Bar” is the big hero here. It gets rid of that big ugly GNOME top bar and turns into little bubble islands with a custom color shadow.

For window appearance I’m using the Dracula w/ Pink accent theme.

I moved the dock over on the left because it just felt better that way and done.

Most of the apps are default Pop OS stuff except my file manager Thunar.

Future Rice?

I’m definitely going to change this setup soon, but wanted to share my first.