One thing took me a while to get running was qBittorent with a VPN on TrueNAS Scale. The community application of qBittorrent doesn’t have that functionality, so the solution is to manually install it instead. This is how I did that! Overview Regardless of what you want to torrent, its probably a good idea to run it through a VPN. It masks your IP address so that way it shouldn’t be linked back to your usage. Read more...

The guys in the lab and I started a book club together and the first book we read was Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. Here’s the cover from Wikipedia Summary The story follows Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-private military, now-turned-investigator hired to solve the mystery behind someone’s suicide (or murder?). It takes place in the future, where humans have the ability to upload our consciousness to chips called stacks. Since the mind can be separated from the body, bodies are referred to as sleeves. Read more...

I was at dinner with my girlfriend and she picked the restaurant based on a TikTok video. We couldn’t decide what we wanted from the menu, so we looked at the reviews on Google to see what dishes other people recommended. After we picked our food, I started to think about how much volunteerism there is on the internet. A lot of the participation on the internet is thankless and without reward. Read more...

In May of 2024, 3 friends and I hiked the Presidential Traverse in New Hampshire! Route Our route! This route is slightly off. We started at the Mount Webster Trailhead and added Mount Jackson to our hike! We hiked somewhere between 7-15kms a day! Gear This is the gear I packed: Clothes Shorts Shirts Underwear Socks Sweater Rain Jacket Rain Pants Hiking Boots Hat Sunglasses Hygiene - (I don’t think specifics are necessary for these) Toothbrush/Toothpaste Deodorant Hand Sanitizer Sunscreen Toilet Paper Wet wipes Bug spray Equipment Tent Sleeping Bag Sleeping Pad Headlamp Stove Fuel Spork Camp soap Rope Dry Bag Compression Sack First Aid Kit Water filter Water bottles Multitool Electronics (battery bank, phone, etc) We carried 2 tents for the 4 of us (1 two-person and 1 four-person), but we had an issue with the two-person one, so everyone added up sleeping in the four-person one. Read more...

The Important Stuff Specs: CPU: INTEL i7-6700K COOLER: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition RAM: 32 GB Vengenance LPX DDR4 2400 MHz (8 GB x 4) MOBO: ASUS Z170-A PSU: Corsair RM 550x CASE: Cooler Master N400 STORAGE: WD Black NVMe 1TB SSD + 5x 4TB WD Red + 2x 10TB WD Red Pro GPU: Intel ARC A310 HBA: LSI 9207-8i OS: TrueNas Scale - Electric Eel Services: Calibre - Ebook management Kavita - Webbased ereader Immich - Photo backup Jellyfin - Media Server TailScale - VPN qBittorrent - Torrent client with Gluetun vpn client Paperless-ngx - document manager Nginx proxy manager - reverse proxy manager Homepage - dashboard Watchtower - docker container updater Audiobookshelf - audiobook client Sonarr - Show indexer/PVR Radarr - movie indexer/PVR Prowler - indexer Dockge - docker manager Stats: Read more...

Last Updated: 2025-05-23 5 Friend and I hiked through 40ish km of the Western Uplands hike in August of 2024! This was my first time planning a hiking trip and I wanted to document my experience. Route This was the route we followed. Each colour is a different day We stayed at the following campsites: Islet 2 Tern 2 Ishkuday 1 Overall, the route was good! Most of the campsites were fine, but I wouldn’t recommend Ishkuday 1. Read more...