Installing NixOS on a ThinkPad T480s (with encrypted ZFS)

I set up my ThinkPad T480S to run NixOS with native ZFS encryption and a swap partition encrypted with a new random key every boot. Here's how.

Running Unifi Network Application in an Incus container

Setting up the Unifi Network Application and MongoDB using Quadlets in an Alma Linux Incus container.

Setting up Incus with ZFS on NixOS

In this guide i setup a NixOS system with ZFS root and bridged networking for use as an Incus container/VM host.

Setting up XMPP (Prosody) on Debian Bookworm

Howto on setting up and running Prosody XMPP server on Debian 12, Bookworm.

Blog migrated to GreenCloud

This blog has been migrated from Inception Hosting to GreenCloud.

Blog maintenance

Moving my Ghost blog database from SQLite to MySQL & some optimisations.

It's alive!

Blog resurrected!

A G-G-G-Ghost

Blog updated to run on Ghost. Hopefully i'll now post more often!

Cheap domains and inexpensive Virtual Private Servers (VPS)

Just a few special offers on domains and VPS that are currently available from various providers.

New theme and domain move

New theme for the site.

Ad blocking using DNS and Privoxy (with Squid for caching)

Chaining Squid and Privoxy for caching and ad-blocking combined with DNS-based ad-blocking using dnsmasq.

Native IPv6 on Zen and IPv6-availability for this site

My ISP, Zen, now provides native IPv6, and i've also made this site available over IPv6.