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Remember two posts back when I said I was a lazy blogger?

June 16, 2026 — ~calvusrex

It's been 5 days. I know I shouldn't pretend that I will ever be "regular" when it comes to adding to my journal., but in all fairness I have been doing a lot, so I'm giving myself a little gracce.

Hre's whats been going on. I decided to totally gut and refocus Offgrid Holdout as the domain for my pubnix. Yeah, I am here n envs and I have a presence on SDF as another persona, but running one myself is slefishly for me.

What I mean is that I want to learn the ins and outs of running a pubnix. I've done the sysadmin thing in in real life, but never on Linux.So, here is my chance. I also plan on keeping it VERY small...5 to 10 invited people. So far, the project has been a positive learning experience. I'm learning a lot about commands taht I knew existed, but never had any real reason to use. So, that being said, offgridholdout.org is running, but as I said, it's invite only. I have a coupel folks interested. After then sign on, we'll see how things go.

I also have been organizing my 16,000 song music library. I'not even close to being done. Tagging, cleaning up duplicates, ensuring album art is there, etc. It's a big project. But whats cool is I have some albums in my library that are out of print. So I am totally grateful to myself for digitizing those albums so that I have them. I have the library self-hosted in Navidrome, which is a pretty slick system.

That being said, I hslo moved three VM servers to a self-hosted box on my LAN and then decommissioned the VM servers. That wasn't that big of a deal, but I feel better about where htye are now.

Along with that, today I totally reorganized my work area. Moed systems and stuff around. It feels less cluttered. Next up is the big one - moving away from Cloudflared and setting up a Ubiquitous Edge Router X behind my very bland ISP modem/router. I aldready use dnsmasq, but trying to make things more efficient, and I truly think the ER-X is the ticket. I have had this little fella in a box for the past 6 years, totally forgotten, but glad I kept it! THAT project is still ongoing. So I'll post more in the future!

So, honestly, I think there are more things I've worked on, but being the lazy ass that I am, I've forgotten them!

Tags: self-hosting, lazy, journal, busy brain, music, pubnix