Given the current ridiculous prices on all things computer, I’ve been shifting some things around internally to make better use of certain components, namely SSD storage. Because storage had gotten incredibly cheap over the years, I’m very fortunate to have an abundance of 1 TB SSDs and multiple high-density spinning drives. Now that you’d need to take out a bank loan to build a desktop, if you’re able to even find components to buy thanks to shitty AI companies buying up everything, I figure it makes some sense to look at how I’m using the components I have.
Sometimes life gets away from you and, well, you don’t perform the maintenance on your homelab that you really should have. It’s been an… interesting few years and I had a couple of Proxmox nodes that were a tiny bit, um… outdated. To get a quick idea of what you’re in for, we’re going from Proxmox version 7 on Debian 11, to Proxmox version 8 on Debian 12, to Proxmox version 9 on Debian 13.
I saw a post on Mastodon yesterday about how Tom Lehrer recently put all his music, lyrics, and sheet music into the public domain, and also made them freely downloadable from his website. […] That’s a lot of clicking that I didn’t want to do, so I put together a small python script to download the PDF files for me.
Microsoft is trying really hard to get people to use a Microsoft account to log into Windows. Every edition of Windows 10 has made it more difficult to create a local user account during Windows Setup, and their newest operating system, Windows 11, is no different.
As Twitter continues to burst into flames and Elon Musk runs around Twitter HQ not knowing what to do while the building falls down around his head, you’ve decided to see what the deal is with this whole “Mastodon” thingy you’ve been hearing about.
I’ve been using Zoneminder for my home security cameras for about 10 years now, and I think it’s time for a change. Zoneminder has always been pretty stable for me, but lately it’s been causing a lot of problems that I don’t have the time or the energy to deal with anymore.