So the 100 days of blogging challenge is starting again, today on December 1st, 2021. Last year I did alright but this year I hope to do even better. I have already started drafting up posts that I intend to schedule in order to give myself a decent lead time when it comes to thinking up what to write about. I am also posting not only here but on my other site that deals mainly with all things WordPress. ...
While I hate to admit it, I saw a picture of this dish while randomly browsing Instagram one evening. That sent me down a rabbit hole, looking at various recipes until I found one that I thought had some potential based on the others I read. I went about doctoring this up to the point at which I was ready to give it a go with some changes in place. I need to revisit this and add a little more heat, but overall, I think this turned out pretty close to perfect; again, it’s a little mild for my liking. ...
I was looking for a way to force all DNS queries on my network to be pushed to my Pi-Hole no matter what hardcoded DNS servers were set up on the device. After a little research, I came across a couple of blog posts that pointed me in the right direction. The main reason for this is not only that the kids are getting smarter to be able to adjust settings on their devices to bypass the Pi-Hole, but also I wanted to make sure all devices that jumped on my network were going through the same DNS servers for caching reasons. I also didn’t want to have to make sure I configured each device when added to my network. ...
I can’t say enough about how difficult this challenge has become. I have really been trying to make some meaningful posts on a daily basis, but if you have been following along, you might have noticed some small, more or less pointless posts, even a few skipped days, such as yesterday.
When I purchased my Synology NAS I filled it with eight 4TB drives, and did dual redundancy leaving me with 22TB of space that I never thought I would fill…