meadow

It's come time to spruce up my baby. I built a home server a couple of years ago, running OpenMediaVault. Years after I thought I was done with mechanical drives, I still had a big one in here but it finally came time to replace it with an NVME. I have a really small SSD for running the OS and storing apps/docker image configs, and another SSD for general purpose storage other than TV and films, etc.

The mechanical drive was really struggling with your 4K bluray rips of films, both the unpacking from usenet and general loading, copying, even streaming, etc. There are ways to mitigate this, but I really am not about that HDD life anymore.

All-in-all, I've done a few things to it:

• Replaced said mechanical drive with said NVMe
• Done some cable organisation, because oh, it feels good 💦
• Moved all of my docker images off of Portainer (itself a docker image management tool), onto a more recent addition of OMV where I can just put docker-compose text files baked into the dashboard
• Added Readarr (book downloader), Bazarr (subtitle manager) and Prowlarr (centralised usenet + torrent indexer which propagates onto the aforementioned and Sonarr + Radarr). (I also run Plex and pi-hole!)
• Deleted portainer and yacht (another docker image manager)

It's not quite done yet as I've just ordered a Noctua cooler to finally replace the stock cooler, which has been fine for temperatures but can get a lil' wimdy and loud when you're watching things right next to the server. Also, can I just say how nice it is to have a computer with only a power cable and ethernet port plugged into it?

My ITX cutie in their cozy cubby

I wonder if intelligent species on other planets were able to observe us in present day, would they be like "lol they haven't even figured out that the questions they ask themselves of why there is something instead of nothing, and what is the origin of existence is actually inherently flawed, and that existence is not something held within the context of nothingness but is rather its own distinct state. the dumbasses don't even know that reality simply is and always has been, let alone why and how that is the case, nor do they know that nothingness itself is actually just a fake idea used for nothing more than basic sapient thought exercises lmao"

last.fm being mentioned in my tl has made me consider using my old account again - truly, one of my few remaining actual online pre-transition (ie. pre-2013) relics of me. almost everything else I decided to delete as, much like with my operating systems, I'm quite the "fresh start" type and like to wipe it all, remove any trail and start fresh. I used it for a few years after though, mostly as a quick sign-in-and-forget-about-it deal on Spotify, which I used a few years ago. I listened to a lot of music outside of that though, which is why the numbers of scrobbles dwindled - my music listening certainly never has.

I might start it up for novelty reasons, but I have some cleanup to do: there's good few comments left by friends and passers by dropping my necronym in the comments, and slightly less jarringly, a swathe of "hey dude!" "yo man what's up!!" type stuff.

but funniest of all is that early on in my audioscrobbler life, for that is what it was called then, I listened to all of the Harry Potter audiobooks, so I literally have J. K. Rowling as one of my most listened to artists lmao

update: let's gleefully do historical revisionism together 👉👈