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,...
Tag: geek stuff
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...
Number Portability, Revisited
Aside from maybe my email address, my home phone number has probably been the most consistent in my adult life. Back when I first moved to Florida in 2003, I go...
Smart Home Talk, 2020 Edition
I spent a good part of yesterday mulling about this and I think my efforts toward creating “a smart home” are coming along better than I would’...