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Fixing my own mistakes: renaming a volume group

May 1, 2025
A terminal window showing the vgrename utility in action

Using vgrename to rename a volume group is a piece of cake. Here’s an unnecessarily long blog post about it.

Categories tutorials

Installing helpful Cockpit modules from 45Drives

April 25, 2025
The words "45Drives Cockpit Modules!" superimposed over a web dashboard (the Cockpit window)

45Drives makes neat modules to help manage Linux servers. Including those you don’t buy from 45Drives.

Categories tutorials

How I set up VimWiki for notetaking

March 26, 2025March 26, 2025
A terminal window with some free-flowing text posted inside, the word "VimWiki!" is superimposed over the top.

I’m a monster who writes her notes in the terminal. Here’s how.

Categories tutorials

Clonezilla 101: creating disk images

January 30, 2025
A small desktop with a small monitor on top running the Clonezilla software.

Clonezilla is a great way to create disk images and clone disks from one device to the next. Here’s how I use it.

Categories tutorials

Removed ActivityPub from vkc.sh

August 31, 2024
The "fediverse" logo in the top left corner and the white woman shrugging emoji in the bottom right. Behind is a zoomed-in fractal that's been dithered.

Disconnecting this blog from ActivityPub. tldr; comment moderation is just too much hassle.

Categories the comments

RIP guestbook

July 1, 2024July 1, 2024
A screenshot of a CSS-bare web form, a guestbook entry page, with the letters "RIP" superimposed in red over the side of it.

I took my 90s-era guestbook down today. Here’s why.

Categories the comments

Predictably, I’ve returned to Mastodon

June 18, 2024
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Because of course I did. There’s no room for nuance in my life! Silly me. 😛

Categories personal updates

Jeff Geerling: eclipse experience

April 12, 2024
A foldable laptop on a deck, showing a Jeff Geerling video on the screen.

Jeff Geerling made a great video about the recent solar eclipse!

Categories What I'm Watching

Reacting to comments: iPods are good, actually

April 10, 2024
A YouTube comment which says "Apple sucks. iPods suck. You suck for telling people to buy Apple's crappy products." The comment is hovering over a trash can in the background.

Responding to some comments about my recent iPod repair video.

Categories music, tech and culture, the comments

I’ve turned on ActivityPub on this blog.

September 1, 2024April 4, 2024
A picture of me (a white lady) looking right in the camera, with @posts@vkc.sh superimposed over my head, and the Fediverse logo in the corner.

I’m alive, and blogging on my website (vkc.sh), and it’s now allegedly part of the Fediverse.

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