Planning for a New NAS…
Granted, this is an upgrade that probably won’t happen for a couple of years, but as my current environment chugs away at adding the first of two new pari...
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Revisiting Magic via Final Fantasy…
Earlier this year, I found myself getting sucked back into the world of Magic: The Gathering by way of Final Fantasy when they released a set meant to honor eve...
Server Crash!
Granted, I was probably long overdue for one because I can’t even remember the last time I had to toil away in my server closet / bedroom closet for more ...
What Do You Need 5 Gigabit For, Anyways???
“Tech stuff, bragging rights – mostly the second one…” That’s what I told the Frontier tech when he left earlier this afternoon af...
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 ...