MacOS Touch ID for Sudo with TMUX and DisplayLink

By Michael McGarrah · August 09, 20242 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

By Michael McGarrah · August 08, 20246 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

By Michael McGarrah · July 23, 202414 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.

Debian 12 on Dell Wyse 3040s

By Michael McGarrah · July 22, 20248 min read

Installing Debian 12 on Dell Wyse 3040 thin clients: BIOS setup, Ventoy boot, the GRUB EFI removable media fix for the bad BIOS, and the dw_dmac blacklist that prevents lockups on shutdown.

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2024-08-09 MacOS Touch ID for Sudo with TMUX and DisplayLink
2024-08-08 Proxmox Ceph settings for the Homelab
2024-07-23 ProxMox 8.2.2 Cluster on Dell Wyse 3040s
2024-07-22 Debian 12 on Dell Wyse 3040s