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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I miss small phones. I use my phone for communication primarily, and the occasional video or something. I swear the keyboards on these things are getting worse and worse at prediction and correcting. I found my old Curve 8320 when moving and just spent some time fondling it, and that really reminded me of the level of control and precision those input methods had. I know I’m in the minority with how I use my phone, so I know that small batch will always be out of my price range. The last two years I’ve been using a Samsung flip and it’s the happiest I’ve been with a phone in a long time.






  • There’s an old adage for cars that I think applies to home servers.

    Fast, Cheap, Reliable. Pick two

    In my experience, SBCs take a whole lot more tinkering than I like to do. I bought a cheap matx motherboard and a second hand ryzen 2400g which has served me well. Inside a second hand htpc chassis with an ssd for the os and a couple hdds for storage. It even has a 5.25" bay I can install a drive for ripping. I’d rubbing OpenMediaVault with Docker for Sonarr/Radarr/Overseerr/Nextcloud etc.

    It’s probably not the cheapest to run, but it was cheap to buy and it’s very reliable because it’s based on x86 so the support will probably outlast me.