What you’ll do (why this matters) You will learn the two thinking modes—focused and diffuse—and use a simple routine to switch between them on purpose. This helps you understand hard ideas, remembe...
What is TrueNas? TrueNas is an open-source storage operating system designed to provide reliable and efficient network attached storage (NAS). I will be running TrueNas as a virtual machine in Hyp...
Github Setup Set a Git username and email address: git config user.name "Your Name" git config user.email "youremail@yourdomain.com" Verify that the changes were made correctly: git config --l...
Why are DNS Forwarders needed? I recently created a VM of Windows Sever 2022 and setup a DNS server. I was a little confused when clients weren’t able to reach the internet. The reason for this is...
How to Enable PowerShell Scripts Why Do I Need Make Changes to Run PowerShell Scripts? Windows PowerShell has a safety feature called Execution Policies. Execution Policies are used to prevent ma...
How To Install and Remove Default Apps from Windows Using PowerShell How To Install Apps with PowerShell Open PowerShell as Administrator Get a list of all default Windows apps Get-AppxP...
How To Set a High-Performance Power Profile on Windows Today, I found myself trying to RDP into a workstation in my HomeLab only to find that a connection could not be established. I looked over a...
How to Flush DNS Why is DNS flushing needed? Flushing the DNS cache means clearing out all stored domain name and IP address entries from a computer’s temporary storage (the cache). When you visi...
Hello, World! Hello, World! The Autodidact Blog is a site dedicated to documenting my learning and understanding of technology. I will be using this site primarily as a quick reference for notes f...