McGarrah Technical Blog

Google Documents - copy an image

· 1 min read
Google Docs uses URL-based clipboard for images, which breaks when you need an actual file. Double-click then Shift+right-click forces the browser to expose the raw image.

Tailscale on Dell Wyse 3040 with Debian 12

· 5 min read
Deploying Tailscale on Dell Wyse 3040 thin clients as always-on subnet router nodes connecting three geographically separate homelab networks.

MacOS Touch ID for Sudo with TMUX and DisplayLink

· 2 min read
Enabling Touch ID for sudo on macOS Sonoma, then fixing the two cases where it silently falls back to password: tmux sessions and DisplayLink external displays.

Proxmox Ceph settings for the Homelab

· 6 min read
Tuning Ceph scrub and deep-scrub intervals to reduce wear on spinning rust drives in a homelab cluster — spreading daily scrubs over 7 days and weekly deep scrubs over 28 days.

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