A Geekier Blog… A place to reference different tech writeups and other technical content I wrote or contributed to over the years. As much as some of those posts are not intended as opinion pieces, their content is opinionated as I propose solutions based on the technologies I use.
Revision at the top of each post informs the reader when content is changed. Its naming convention is YYYYMMDD-Rev with Rev, a number that has increased from 0. For example, 20240229-0 is the initial release for 2024-02-29. Details pertinent to those changes will be documented in a "Revision History" section at the end of the document. I likely will not increase numbers when adjusting sentences, formatting, or grammatical content.init revision value) will have a Rev: MM/DD entry in its title to quickly identify updates. 
Managing our dotfiles across multiple machines and operating systems can be complex. A tool designed for this purpose, chezmoi, can streamline this process and store the dotfiles in a GitHub repository, manage the differences between systems (using a template), and secure some of those files using encryption.
The following are best practices from using Unraid for close to three years. Although much more complex installation (with ZFS pools or complex alternate OSes VM setup) are possible, it is written to support people interested in learning about the tool. I wrote about Unraid in the past, such as “Things I wished I had READ before my first Unraid Install... and more”. This post is different as I have recently installed a new workstation; and used the experience to document various aspects such as installation, array management, share configurations, and community applications. I hope it provides valuable insights to benefit those interested in exploring Unraid further, especially as the 7.0 version is coming soon. We note that we will use external links to Unraid’s documentation for additional content on discussed topics.
This post details using our VPS as a SOCKS5 Proxy for a single web browser and how to set up wg_easy to create a peer-to-peer network for accessing self-hosted services.