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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • I ran across a YouTube video of this guy a couple months ago because a popular YT fitness guy (rock climber) I watch went and interviewed him and did some physical ‘age tests’ with him as well as just talk about his daily routines.

    He doesn’t come across as batshit crazy in the video, but obviously he’s a bit obsessive over this whole thing.

    The funniest part about it was that Magnus (Climber) matched or exceeded him in almost all the physical ‘age tests’ they performed. Of course, Magnus would also outperform most other people in most physical tests but that didn’t make it any less humorous. On the “not as batshit as I imagined” list, he also seemed fairly supportive/genuine of Magnus’ results/abilities during the video.

    https://youtu.be/G7b28Vm9-O0



  • I’m sure a lot of people’s self hosting journey started on junk hardware… “try it out”, followed by “oh this is cool” followed by “omg I could do this, that and that” followed by dumping that hand-me-down garbage hardware you were using for something new and shiny specifically for the server.

    My unRAID journey was this exactly. I now have a 12 hot/swap bay rack mounted case, with a Ryzan 9 multi core, ECC ram, but it started out with my ‘old’ PC with a few old/small HDDs






  • Part of my Christmas gift to my father this year was getting him a SSD, and install Linux on his PC, that doesn’t support Windows 11. But his Dell was very not friendly for upgrading. It has a proprietary PSU with only the connectors needed to run the one HDD and Optical drive (also a non sata connector).

    I had a plan in case there were issues, and had enough spare parts to build him a nicer used PC. It’s also an upgrade for him as his Dell was a 6th gen i5, now he’s got a 7th gen i7 :) and more ram.

    But I built it, and installed Fedora 41 KDE on it. He started setting it up here over the holidays then took it home and set it up there. He’s not run into any “problems” he hasn’t found solutions for. Mom is still using the Dell but Dad hopes he can eventually get her moved to the Linux box.

    I used to run ESET and really liked them ‘back in the day’ and glad to see them looking out for people.






  • So, my current whole house audio is powered by Chromecast Audios. Unfortunately they no longer make them. But you can still get them new off eBay. I know because I just bought 5 more (unopened from Japan) as part of finishing our basement

    Mine feed two 12 channel (six room) amplifiers. I’ve got a mini in each room whose default speaker is the associated CCA and it works great. I have speaker groups so I can ask “hey Google, play music in the basement” and all rooms play.

    Previously I used casatunes. They don’t do this anymore, but I bought a PCI card from them (it was a sound blaster hardware) but it was a 6 channel sound card and associated software that ran on windows IIS. It allowed both hardware and software streaming. I liked it but it never supported Google music and eventually I switched to the CCAs