Wi-Fi Down: NetworkManager (reason -3)

For the past month, I was using cable connection in my office. The reason being – I couldn’t connect to wi-fi! I never really bothered solving that problem, because I hardly ever had to work without an ethernet cable nearby. This unfortunately has changed today and I had to finally do some NetworkManager troubleshooting.
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Homelab Part 1 - Nesting

As my move to Ireland was quite unexpected and unplanned, I had to sell my homelab. For the past few months I was a refugee, an outcast trying to get something done on an outdated laptop which I was jokingly referring to as mobile-lab. The decision was made to end this and get new gear…
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Linux Horizon Client & RDP

The story how Linux failed me or how I failed to understand Linux. When I first started using VMware View, I instantly decided to use it on my Linux laptop. Everything went fine without any issues up until I had to connect to Horizon Server with no VMware Blast support (RDP only).
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Reset ESXi root password

Admit it. This can happen to all of us. Somebody was changing the root password while intoxicated, without a notepad at hand or had a sudden memory loss. Whatever’s the reason, you’re now locked out of your own host. What now?
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