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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • While on an fairphone where a “normal” user can change various parts himself it makes sense, how does this workout on a pixel or any other “not for selfrepair” built device?

    A screen module of the fairphone is 70€, so you drop it and change the screen yourself. Continuing to use it.

    More than 4/5 years updates with batteries dying due to fast/ultra charged cycles doesn’t make sense in my point of view.

    They will for sure require original parts installed in the manufacturer repair shop.







  • I went for the ASRock J5040 board, 16gb ram (yes it works) a 500gb m.2 as system using a PCI adapter , 2x4tb ironwolf as ZFS mirror pool, 350 W power supply all in the node 304 fractal case for 550 euro.

    Runs proxmox as hypervisor for VM or Container. 6 LXC running motioneye, plex, pyload with openvpn, syncthing, rclone cloud backup and openbookshelf.

    Typical power usage is around 20W




  • I am not familiar with the Apt series but CoT was the first book I read from this author and was blown away.

    Although the first part started slow and monologues still happen frequently but the idea and the plot pulled me forward. While I didn’t felt he recapped much.

    My other suggestion, Peter F. Hamilton is the totally oposite direction when it comes to jumping between places / characters. Sometimes between paragraphs and not at chapters end or page ends.

    Still after one sentence you know exactly where you are in the plot. Even when his books throw different characters at you like popcorn.


  • If you have a lot of time and an urge to read:

    • Peter F. Hamilton - void trilogy - space opera
    • Brandon Sanderson - the stormlight archives - epic fantasy
    • Adrian Tchaikovsky - children of time series - sci-fi

    Check if you can get your hands on an ebook reader, if you don’t have already. The reading experience from the eye view side is similar to reading books and in addition you can increase the font size. It is superior to reading on a screen.








  • If your concern is booting USB for unraid the
    solution is to sacrifice at least one of your drives
    as a boot drive, or if you have the room get a pair
    of small SAS drives and configure a raid 1 vol in
    the perc controller.

    AFAIK the USB is the dongle that unraid runs at all. You have to boot from it. After the boot its loaded into the RAM. But without the USB drive you cannot boot at all.

    That is why I followed the proxmox route.