McGarrah Technical Blog

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.

ProxMox 8.2.2 Cluster on Dell Wyse 3040s

· 14 min read
Building a three-node Proxmox 8 + Ceph test cluster on Dell Wyse 3040 thin clients to safely evaluate SDN and Ceph configuration changes without risking the semi-production cluster.

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