Email Local Backup & Archiving

4th November 2025

We all have that user with a 50gig mailbox This open-source tool is the perfect self-hosted solution for managing my emails https://share.google/Y2h2DUGKvCHPn5jB0

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Google Thermostat gen1+2 local firmware

3rd November 2025

Google has abandoned their gen1 +2 Nest/thermostat models.ย  Hackers to the rescue with a drop in replacement firmware GitHub – codykociemba/NoLongerEvil-Thermostat: Breathe fresh life into your bricked Nest Gen 1…

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Docker guests

31st October 2025

5 simple yet ingenious services every user should self-host https://share.google/WS5EEK5dMZRtEUlUJ

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Security on a Budget by Spencer Alessi

25th October 2025

https://www.notion.so/Spencer-s-Pentesting-on-a-Budget-Resources-For-IT-Admins-2944105ceb3180189ff5f3c153fbe497

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Windows11 upgrades

16th October 2025

MSI bios from 2020; on-board graphics will not display the Bios screen. No Windows bios flash tool. No MSI bios flash button. Had to add a GPU to the system…

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Starlink and VoIP

10th October 2025

Have a customer in the boonies that is using VoIP over Starlink. They are having better results than terrestrial Point-to-point internet but still not excellent, as expected Interestingly, Starlink does…

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Ollama LLM on windows easy

27th September 2025
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Network Chuck’s path to an IT job

13th September 2025
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Tailscale Silent install via WinGet

10th September 2025

“C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_1.26.510.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\winget.exe” install -e –id Tailscale.Tailscale –accept-package-agreements –accept-source-agreements –silent “C:\Program Files\Tailscale\tailscale.exe” up

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Tailscale + RdWeb

22nd August 2025

Tailscale and RdWeb work fine together BUT don’t expect to use Firefox Tailscale makes a non-public URL and the certificate will show as broken, so Firefox will nope-out. I may…

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