Debian 13 kiosk build
Turning a Debian 13 machine into a locked-down touchscreen kiosk: auto-login, Openbox, a hardened fullscreen Firefox, touch dead-zones, and recovery shortcuts.
Section 01 · Field Notes
Documentation
Build logs and how-it-works writeups. More entries land here over time.
Serving a static site on TrueNAS without the Apps system
Hosting a plain HTML site on your LAN with Python's built-in server made permanent via systemd — plus the UTF-8 header gotcha.
Passbolt on TrueNAS, the hard way
A working Passbolt install and every permission, certificate, and database trap between you and a login screen.
TrueNAS recovery notes
A web UI that vanishes after an update, and a BIOS fTPM prompt that looks like data loss — what happened and what to press.
Sonoff RF Bridge R2 v2.2: the chip that breaks everything
Why the R2 v2.2 won't sniff your doorbell, how to confirm it's the hardware, the three real fixes, and how to flash it safely.
Running a local LLM on an AMD RDNA 4 card
Squeezing usable speed from a 16 GB RX 9060 XT in LM Studio: VRAM math, system-level fixes, and the load settings that matter.
LocalAI on SteamOS
Getting LocalAI running on an Arch-based, read-only SteamOS box with an RDNA 4 card — the ROCm env vars and model-config traps.