This and That…
Squarespace SucksI kind of got forced on them last year when Google Domains, who’s been my domain name registrar for years now, stepped out of the space a...
Tag: computers
Getting Old…
According to this blog post, my little MacBook Air has been trucking along now for nearly a decade. …and boy oh boy, is it starting to show… I mean,...
State of the Server Rack – 2022 Edition
It’s finally the way that I want it … for now, anyways… 😛 (from top to bottom) 2U shelf that pretty much only holds my Hue Hub and the button ...
The Road to Multi-Gigabit Internet Service…
To say I was caught off guard last month when I randomly stumbled upon a news release stating that my ISP, Frontier, was going to start offering 2 Gbps service ...
And as long as we’re talking about Plex…
I added a few more disks to my NAS when Best Buy put them on sale earlier this month, so now we’re officially up to a whopping 20 disks including parity i...
Lesson Learned – Test Your Backups!
I like to think that I’ve come a long way since I first started noodling around with Plex back in … wow – 2014?! What was first an install on ...
“Upgrade your server!” they said. “It’ll be EASY!!!” they said…
It’s been a while since I’ve done much tinkering with my home servers – frankly because I’ve been pretty satisfied how they’ve bee...
FINALLY! An Actual Use for QR Codes!!!
There’s no sense in holding back now – I’ve honestly always thought that QR codes were kind of dumb. BUT… I just stumbled across a prett...
Evolution of a Media Collection
I wish I had kept better records of this over time – I’m basically just going by when I added new drives, but it’s still crazy to see how this...
To Migrate 70 Terabytes…
It’s true. The project that I started almost two months ago to migrate all of my home server data from rapidly aging desktop hardware to a rackmount NAS i...