Tag: geek stuff
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 ...
The Attic is an Itchy Place
Today is the first day that I’ve ever been in our attic. Well, I’ve stood on a ladder with my head in the little hole before, typically just long en...
“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...
How Many Raspberry Pis is Too Many???
Tonight I setup the new Raspberry Pi 4b that I picked up last week, namely because it has two outputs and I saw an opportunity to further consolidate some of th...