So frustrating

So I am getting into home labbing, expensive hobby but fun, I am really wanting to move my real domain to a self hosted option but Caddy seems to say hi to it and that is it. I do not know what is up but, it pains me to admit

Wordpress

I have decided that I am going to self host my webpage, may have said that recently, I am pooped and frustrated. I am using an app that is not Wordpress to host my webpage locally, for the time being, and I am liking the set up. I have downloaded

New website management software I am using

So I am using new software to manage my webpage, the whole self hosting thing. It wanted to know my twitter handle all I could think was “really, I lean a little further left than a socialist why would I be on the Nazi app?” So I am just going

Firewall update

I was working on my blog when I realized I had the wrong image of my firewall setup. I tried a few times to get openWRT to work on the pi 5 but I had no luck so I broke and got actual hardware to act as a firewall. This

I lied there maybe a few more tests today!

I have decided that I should maybe cross post into mastodon @reannlegge@mstdn.ca.

This is yet another test

This should be the last test I will be sending from this new set up, well ok maybe one or two more down the line. Or later today, who knows?

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Meta

At the beginning of the boycott the US movement I said I was going to step away from the book of faces, I was not going to go cold turkey and close my account but I was going to stop using it. I have been on it once or twice

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Finally have a FireWall

So I got a couple of static IP addresses a little while ago, because I want to get more into self hosting. Last night I could have had my firewall all set up, but for whatever reason I was scared something would break and I would be up poops creak

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Big fire

So yesterday I saw 4 houses go up in flames, along with five and a half unattached garages, it was a site to see not a pleasant one but it was one. At first I was on my condos property side so I was looking down the back alley and

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4th Pi 5

I have a fourth pi 5 in the mail and it should be at my place on Thursday I am going to use it as my OpenWRT firewall, so that I can use my static IP addresses to self host my domains. I plan on using LuCI with it like

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Bill C-22

So I wrote my MP today asking, no demanding that Bill C-22 be voted against. Brad Reddicopp is sort of a do nothing MP so I really hope he stands up against it. I even used some stronger language in it, I was not soft and gentle calling him

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A little Facebook withdrawl

Like the title says I am trying the boycott the US thing hard, so I have gotten rid of a lot of services. After my iPhone and iPad give out I will be looking into alternatives my homepods are going to need to find another forever home sooner or later.