Boast about your minor accomplishments here. The world is shit so bask in glory while you can.
Example: I saved an old handwarmer by resoldering this switch back in. Challenge because it was hard to see what I was doing and I don’t have a very small tip for my soldering iron.
Nat gets the W a little more entertainingly here.
What did you do to that poor penny.
Someone was passing them out at protests. I have two. So go out and protest. You can get paid!
Soros must really be hurting these days
I also got a Soros check for $1M. Maybe I should try to cash it before he goes broke.
Lol 6 7
I am watching a TV show hosted on my new Linux/jellyfin media server. Took weeks to set up. The details are boring. Suffice to say if I had known how much of a pain it would be I wouldn’t have started this project. Nevertheless, win.
Sounds like you could use some soldering tips.
Yeah, at my aerospace job, technicians wouldn’t let me do any soldering because they’d just end up having to fix stuff. :(
What piece of kit are you using?
As a server? An old HP Elitedesk 800 G3 small form factor PC with a 6th generation Intel CPU I got on eBay for $100. Right off, I had to replace the cmos battery but other than that everything on it worked. It came with a dvd drive I used to rip my DVDs. I added a new HDD and swapped the 2.5" SSD for an M.2 SSD from my desktop machine.
I saw a dude on yt set one up and it seemed straight forward. Also the cute girl on the click and switch channel did a similar project. The time they said they put into it had to be off by like a factor of 10.
Edit: if you meant for soldering, it’s just something generic and cheap I think I got at Fry’s Electronics way back. It barely works.
This post gave me a little boost of motivation to do some work on my hobby server rack. I work in tech, so this is pretty relevant to regular day work.
Awhile back I had the idea to repurpose old computer parts into a server rack. Anyway, I decided to build a shoddy wooden frame and threw a network device in it which sat alone collecting dust for a few months. I eventually got the items needed, put together the 4Userver and put it in the rack. It just sat there not even plugged in… Then over Thanksgiving, consumerism got the best of me and I bought a NAS to start moving memories out of someone else’s cloud.
Anyway, getting the NAS was the motivation I needed to pick the project back up and start cleaning up my dirty rack. It was the quintessential half-finished project with cords and things strewn about. I started by imaging two old hard drives while installing the 2 metal shelves. Then, I installed those old drives into the 4U server for extra space. I kept running into boot issues because I bumped the SATA cable on my preferred drive. Got it figured out and everything is working again with 2TB thiccer! I also noticed the DVD writer I had installed didn’t work, so I had to remove it.
On the 4U server, I’m running Proxmox with a few LXC containers and a Docker VM which hosts the services that are very easy to run with docker. The NAS has a Linux OS which allows me to install Docker and run other services too. I have a few future projects like upgrade the CPU on the server, getting a VPN setup with gluetun so I can torrent, setting up a DVD RW to archive old discs/data, archive and setup those Macbooks, adding more disk space to the NAS (which only has 2x 4TB NVME drives).
Very nice. I had ideas of eliminating my cloud storage because Google keeps bugging me about pushing my limit but that seems far off. I seem to run into issues at every step. I tell myself I’m learning something but have I really? I haven’t spent a lot but the price keeps going up. Apparently we can blame AI for memory and drive costs.
While I am experienced in this area, I am having my hand held by Claude throughout this entire process. It is really good at breaking down the steps needed when I ask it how to do a thing. It is also great when things break. It could be worth your time to bounce your problem against a LLM and ask it to explain it. It isn’t great at remembering things… but it is usually helpful figuring out the issue.
Yeah, I wouldn’t have made it this far without AI help but even then nothing has gone smoothly. Currently I’m trying to set up something called deskflow because I’m tired of swapping keyboards/mice but although, after a struggle, I got it working, the clipboard won’t paste across systems and… ok, I give up on that for now.
I completed Whamageddon for the first time!
A ceiling fan was making a noise: tap, tap, tap… Made it hard to fall asleep. So I got out my step ladder. I found one of the glass shades on the light fixture was ever so slightly loose so I tightened it, just a tiny fraction of a turn. Now It’s just the normal noises in here. Win.
I exported every single photo that Google has of mine and imported it into my self-hosted instance of Immich. I used takeout.google.com to build an export of all my photos and videos over the years. They set that up and emailed me a link to a webpage with links to zip files. Seems legit.
It was 85.69GiB on the cloud and zipped according to what the webpage said. After downloading the files and using the official immich cli script, it says only 48GiB. There were definitely a lot of duplicates when doing the upload… but now I have to go figure out what is correct.
Three steps forward, one back
I used takeout to download my email and then Thunderbird to check it. Worked fine. About done ripping DVDs, which is very time-consuming. Jellyfin can handle music too, so that’s cool.
Also planning on using immich for photos. Probably will still rely on some cloud storage because I’m not in a hurry to $pend on new HDDs and I don’t have another option for “off-site” storage.
