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Dec 25, 2025 / technical

From 40 Minutes to 5: The Btrfs Binary Package Breakthrough

Traditional Gentoo VM deployment takes 6-10 hours. Mine takes 5 minutes. Btrfs snapshots, binary packages, and one painful lesson about BIOS boot.

Dec 24, 2025 / services

Two problems that plagued my Plex setup: invisible files and mysterious stuttering. Both were CIFS mount issues. Here's how I fixed them.