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Another (Quick) Update About The Homeserver

Finally learning when to leave good enough alone

Another (Quick) Update About The Homeserver

So I finally got the homeserver happy (It's current uptime is at 41 days, 20 hours and 33 minutes!) Plex was getting killed when trying to do intro/outro detection on an ANCIENT anime DVD rip. I ripped a new copy and Plex stopped dying every night. Once it stopped dying every night, I stopped gettin...

Further Adventures With The Homeserver

Honestly, I just need to learn to leave good enough alone.

In an update to the previous Home Server Saga: It crashed again. Same issue, systemctl-journald core dumped and it was unresponsive. I had noticed during my previous log reviews that every time, before journald dumped core and the system became frozen, that Plex was running its Chapter Thumbnail g...

Home Servers And Me: Dear God, What Have I Gotten Myself Into

IN THE BEGINNING

I have, for DECADES now, had a personal server of one sort or another to run the web pages and ill conceived projects that come into my head. The first dedicated server was an old Dell Pentium 3 workstation that I got from an office move that I was contracted to help on. They ha...

The Care and Feeding of a Valve Steam Deck

Lots of little tweaks can make a big difference!

When I get into a handheld device mood I don't go half way, apparently! After getting the Anbernic RG353M I started thinking about filling the "larger, more powerful device" niche. I think a Steam Deck was always in the cards, but I thought of it as a more remote purchase, as I wanted to get the "bu...

An Update To My Previous Handheld Post

Sometimes you need a second look

Last week I wrote a mostly effusive post about the Anbernic RG353M. I still stand by my overall thoughts, it's a really solid device, the emulator performance (for the most part) is excellent, and it having a metal body makes it feel very premium and rugged.

But I did the Android OS portion of it...