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    • ESXi Arm Edition on the Quartz64 SBC

      calendar Apr 23, 2022 · 16 min read · vmware linux chromeos homelab tailscale photon vpn  ·
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      ESXi Arm Edition on the Quartz64 SBC

      Up until this point, my homelab has consisted of just a single Intel NUC9 ESXi host running a bunch of VMs. It's served me well but lately I've been thinking that it would be good to have an additional host for some of my workloads. In particular, I'd like to have a Tailscale node on my home network which isn't hosted …


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    • Virtually Potato migrated to GitHub Pages!

      calendar Jul 20, 2021 · 4 min read · linux meta chromeos crostini jekyll  ·
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      Virtually Potato migrated to GitHub Pages!

      After a bit less than a year of hosting my little technical blog with Hashnode, I spent a few days migrating the content over to a new format hosted with GitHub Pages. So long, Hashnode Hashnode served me well for the most part, but it was never really a great fit for me. Hashnode's focus is on developer content, …


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    • Burn an ISO to USB with the Chromebook Recovery Utility

      calendar Dec 23, 2020 · 2 min read · chromeos  ·
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      Burn an ISO to USB with the Chromebook Recovery Utility

      There are a number of fantastic Windows applications for creating bootable USB drives from ISO images - but those don't work on a Chromebook. Fortunately there's an easily-available tool which will do the trick: Google's own Chromebook Recovery Utility app. Normally that tool is used to creating bootable media to …


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    • Showdown: Lenovo Chromebook Duet vs. Google Pixel Slate

      calendar Nov 6, 2020 · 5 min read · chromeos  ·
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      Showdown: Lenovo Chromebook Duet vs. Google Pixel Slate

      Okay, okay, this isn't actually going to be a comparison review between the two wildly-mismatched-but-also-kind-of-similar Chromeblets, but rather a (hopefully) brief summary of my experience moving from an $800 Pixel Slate + $200 Google keyboard to a Lenovo Chromebook Duet I picked up on sale for just $200. …


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    • Setting up Linux on a new Lenovo Chromebook Duet (bonus arm64 complications!)

      calendar Oct 27, 2020  · edit May 20, 2021 · 8 min read · chromeos linux crostini docker shell containers  ·
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      Setting up Linux on a new Lenovo Chromebook Duet (bonus arm64 complications!)

      I've written in the past about the Linux setup I've been using on my Pixel Slate. My Slate's keyboard stopped working over the weekend, though, and there don't seem to be any replacements (either Google or Brydge) to be found. And then I saw that Walmart had the 64GB Lenovo Chromebook Duet temporarily marked down to a …


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    • 3D Modeling and Printing on Chrome OS

      calendar Sep 14, 2020 · 4 min read · linux chromeos crostini 3dprinting  ·
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      3D Modeling and Printing on Chrome OS

      I've got an Ender 3 Pro 3D printer, a Raspberry Pi 4, and a Pixel Slate. I can't interface directly with the printer over USB from the Slate (plus having to be physically connected to things is like so lame) so I installed Octoprint on the Raspberry Pi and connected that to the printer's USB interface. This gave me a …


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    • VMware Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes Platform in a Homelab
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    • Setting up Linux on a new Lenovo Chromebook Duet (bonus arm64 complications!)

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