This page covers what electronic devices, equipment and software I’m running right now. What’s New? Time since last update: 6 months. Honestly, not much has changed! I installed a new power supply into the archive server, removing an 11 year old 450W Antec unit, and replacing it with a new Fractal Design 550W unit, so slightly more capable. I’d still recommend Antec units. Upgraded the Windows desktop machine to Windows 11....
This page covers what electronic devices, equipment and software I’m running right now. What’s New? Time since last update: 6 months I added a new camera lens - a 7artisans 60mm MK. II manual focus macro lens. I wanted to play with a macro lens for a while as I’ve never had a dedicated macro lens before. It’s been a lot of fun. On the archive server, converted the single remaining ZFS mirror pool of disks to a btrfs mirror....
This page covers what electronic devices, equipment and software I’m running right now. What’s New? A minor update - a new motherboard in the Windows machine. Also, I got a PS5, admittedly 2 years afer its launch, but I think it was two years before I got the PS4 too. Also, I moved from SpiderOak to iDrive for backups. I was happy with SpiderOak, but the product has been in maintenance mode for 3 years, and is no longer on the front page of the company’s website, so that’s likely a hint to move on, and so far iDrive has worked well for both Linux and Windows....
This page covers what electronic devices, equipment and software I’m running right now. What’s New? It’s been 9 months since my last ‘Currently Using’ update and this one is largely incremental. I just haven’t really needed to buy anything or make any major changes - though I’m expecting to have to make a few hardware replacements in 2023 as some of my kit hits the decade mark! The only real hardware change was to the SSD on my archive server....
Moving from SpiderOak to Syncthing for local Sync Firstly, I know there are simpler ways to deal with the following problem, but just bear with me! At home I regularly work between 3 machines - my desktop workhorse Windows 10 box, my Linux laptop (an 8 yr old ThinkPad E440), and sometimes the family Dell XPS Windows 11 laptop. I need to have my ‘current projects’ folder sync’d between these machines, which comes to about 300MB of mainly text and small image files....