Enable hugepages on Proxmox 8 for XMRig container

9 April 2025
According to the XMRig documentation, enabling hugepages results in a typical hash rate increase of 20-30% for most algorithms with an up-to-50% increase in hash rate for RandomX algorithms. However, to run XMRig in an unprivileged container, we must reserve the pages on the Proxmox host ahead of time.

Using efibootmgr to add boot options

3 March 2025
Some computers, such as the Lenovo ideacentre 300s, will erase the bootloader entry when a drive is removed and doesn't add a new one when reinstalled so we must recreate the bootloader entry ourselves. In this post, we'll go through how to add new selections to your EFI bootloader options.

Install NVIDIA Tesla K20x drivers & CUDA Toolkit on Proxmox 8.3

18 February 2025
Debian 12, on which Proxmox 8 is based, has the correct driver in the non-free repository. However, that driver doesn't support the CUDA Toolkit in the non-free repository so it must be installed via run file downloaded from NVIDIA's website. In this post we'll go over installing the NVIDIA Tesla Driver 470 and CUDA Toolkit 11.4.
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New lunisolar year, new features (hey look! I'm doing the thing)

29 January 2025
The site had a major overhaul on the back-end. I started this site using Drupal CMS release candidate before I understood how recipes worked and that led to some issues that I didn't want to work around considering how little I'd actually done. Major updates include content metadata for rich snippets, an XML sitemap, a regular sitemap, preliminary AI integration, and integration with Revive Adserver (yeah, boooo ads, but still).
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What are we even doing here?

23 January 2025
Starting the site is great and all, but what's the point? What are we doing? Why are we here? And the most existential of all questions, can I really remember to take pictures and video of my projects? This blog seeks to fill the gaps between what I can do and what I can remember later. Instead of spending an hour search the internet for an answer I've already found, I want to find it once and write it down.
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New year, new blog (resolution complete)

1 January 2025
Every year I swear I'm going to start a blog and document all the little projects I do and every year I don't. If you're reading this then I'm already doing better this year, unless this is the only post and then meh.
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