Chuck Carroll
Chuck Carroll
Chuck Carroll
Hey there, I'm Chuck. Some of my interests include reading, writing, Jiu-Jitsu, and tinkering with (and sometimes breaking) computers. In the professional world I'm a wireless consultant.
Latest Posts
I picked up a Palo Alto Cloudgenix ION 2000 off of eBay and decided to try and stick OPNsense on it. It has a ethernet ports, 4GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, and an Intel Atom CPU. What I hadn't considered was a lack of any video out on this...
I was recently handed down a D-Link DNS-323 NAS which I thought would be great for my brother to use. Although the stock D-Link firmware functions okay, it's officially EOL and there hasn't been an official update for it since 2013, and...
A few months back, Ars Technica published Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true. I haven't used an online password manager in 5 years. Previously I had been using Bitwarden, which is fine, I just...
This post is not about electric vehicle hesitations like range anxiety and more complicated trip planning. No, this post is just me complaining about the digital experiences that come with owning a modern vehicle, but especially with an...
We're in the process of moving and it's eye-opening just how much stuff we've accumulated over the span of just two and a half years. During that time, my in-laws from Viet Nam stayed with us for several months, and we welcomed our son...
During my holiday break, I built a Stratum 1 NTP server in my home lab. Ordinarily, we get our time from internet-based NTP servers which usually Stratum 2 or 3. With Stratum 1, I can get significantly more accurate time directly from...
"Ignorance is bliss" usually has a negative connotation, a way to refer to someone who is ignorant on some topic that someone else has deemed very important (sometimes meant as an insult). In my view, ignorance can be a positive thing...
Other than looking cool to your friends, owning your own domain increases your digital self-reliance. It's kind of like having your own phone number. Just like switching cell phone carriers if you don't like your provider, you can easily...
I have an NVMe base for my Raspberry Pi 5 and it's been running for a little over a year without any issues. A couple of months ago I switched to Almalinux and noticed that I could SSH into it right after it booted, but around 30-40...
This is a follow up from something I wrote in 2020 titled The End of Ownership in a Digital Age where I discuss (ie complain) about what it means to "own" something in the modern digital age. I've recently experienced a kind of digital...
A few years ago I published a post about aliases, one of which I set up to allow me to SSH into a shared web server. Someone shared that post to Hacker News, so naturally the gaping flaws in my understanding of both aliases and SSH came...
To be "terminally-online" is to be deeply engaged on social media, consuming YouTube creator-driven drama, or spending a significant amount of one's free time doing online activities. Personal interests are focused on some form of...
Like many, I've always romanticized the idea of traveling long-term, all while earning my living solely through my laptop and my phone. I've loosely experimented with this, traveling for periods from a week to three months while working...
I've been thinking about how my digital consumption habits have changed over the last year. Lately, I've found myself consuming too many movies and shows and spending less time reading and writing. I wake up then turn on the TV while I...
A few years ago I read Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy (The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End) and I recently revisited it in audiobook format. The Dark Forest is my favorite in the trilogy because it...