Not working on anything particular, but I’m going on a road trip on Tuesday to this regional airport that is giving away two racks perfect for my use case. Deep enough for my larger machines, sound proofed and 42U tall.

Finally my hardware can have a proper rack instead of being in a stack/pile in this harrypotteresque locker under my stairs.

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I found the best thing to deal with a device that won’t work…

I’m trying to get the 3.5" adafruit touchscreen working and it’s being stubborn…

So… I went outside and split a large pile of logs.

Problem still not fixed, but I feel a hellofalot better

Everything I have currently is pretty much working and maintaining itself. My logs are quiet and predictable. It’s been nice.

I do have two things to do. One is it switch from iptables to nftables because podman is depreciating support for iptables. I absolutely hate working with firewalls, the syntax is always awful. For some reason ufw isn’t working with nftables like I hoped so now I’m working up the energy to learn nftables itself.

The other thing to do is to update Alpine Linux to the latest release version. I’m trying to figure out how to properly update the cache of installed packages on my main computer. After that I should be able to run my upgrade script and things should take care of itself. I hope. With Alpine I usually wait a month or two after the initial release of a new version, things always seem to break if I update immediately and I don’t want to trouble shoot too many things.

Other than that, I’ve gone back to making functional scripts again. Currently I am working on a new backup script that handles logging and automated rotation of backup snapshots. It’ll be POSIX portable and easy to integrate with crontab. It’s essentially the culmination of all my POSIX shell scripting knowledge. I just have to figure out one last and huge hurdle and I’ll be happy with the script.

Not much for me atm, though in a day or two I’m (finally) fixing a major problem with my VM storage array - I’m replacing the crappy Crucial BX500’s in my VM storage mirror with a couple refurbished 2TB Intel D3-S4510 SSDs I got from Server Part Deals. I’m very excited for this saga to be over, since I’ve been fighting horrible VM performance for over a year, and it was bad enough to where simply pushing changes to git repos or syncing a modest amount of data to my Nextcloud would hang the VMs for a few minutes!

Otherwise I’m just looking at maybe replacing my Puppet infra with SaltStack, and getting some new Packer images built for FreeBSD 15.1 and Almalinux 10 :)

After a lot of trial and error, I managed to get rsgain working with Lidarr on my raspberry pi. I might actually be fully satisfied with my music piracy/streaming setup now (until I find the next silly addition :3 ).

I built a dashboard themed around my dog. It uses the Home Assistant API to get various stats from the house. I’m pleased with it!

[AIT] I know this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m excited about Deepseek V4 flash. It’s (for me) the perfect size and architecture to self-host an LLM.

My box (and brain) are chugging through a queue:

• Figure out why my swap is going crazy, and how to ban processes from it [Done].

• Figure out why Code OSS is unhappy [Partially Done].

• Make an ik_llama.cpp iMatrix for Deepseek V4 [Done].

• Figure out why quantization isn’t working [Done].

• Make a test IQ2_KL/MXFP4_R8 quant to see how it does squeezed onto my box [in progress].

• Test. Tune. Inevitably troubleshoot the dozen other things that go wrong. Figure out how much spare RAM that leaves me.

• Make a higher quality IQ3_KT quantization. This will take all night on my CPU.

• KLD test both of them vs the full precision, to quantify quantization loss. Likely an overnight task, too.

• Try merging the new model release with the base model, 50/50, for a less “deep fried” model. imatrix, quant, test.

The goal is to host it on a single RTX 3090, Ryzen 7000 with 128GB RAM, for anyone curious. Though I may try smaller models too, like Laguna S1.

[AIT] Well, let’s see…nothing really new on the server. Still waiting for something interesting besides *.arr. I did provision a new tower with the following specs:

• CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X
• GPU: ASUS ROG RX 580
• RAM: Came with 32 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 / dropped another 96 GB in it.
• SSD: WD Black NVMe M.2 iirc it’s about a 1tb
• Asus motherboard
• Working on acquiring a GeForce RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7 mounted on a OCuLink external dock (tentative - may change)

This, obviously, will be an local AI machine

Building a new server, pinping up the specs to run more serious llm in parallel with all my services.

Waiting for the CPU (an amd Ryzen 9 5950X) that delayed in delivery, and building wooden crate/case to hold everything together with proper ventilation .

Mealie, recipe manager and Social to Mealie. Scrapes recipes from instagram reels, tiktok, youtube shorts.

Bar Assistant, bar and cocktail management. You can add your ingredients and it shows what can you make, you can share a menu to your friends, its cool

Over the last few weeks I’ve been making the horrifying leap from PHP5 to PHP8. I knew it was going to be a lot of work to upgrade all my various scripts and web pages but I’m nearing the end, just have some random CLI scripts still failing that I have to work through.

I’ve been making a big push this year to get all my servers caught up to supported operating system levels. Debian will truly run forever even when it really shouldn’t. I was happy to finally get my mail servers modernized last month. The old code I had relied on for managing spam scanning and such had been abandoned but I finally discovered rspamd which replaced everything plus does so much more. The first couple weeks saw an awful lot of server emails being marked as spam while I trained the new system, seems to be settling in nicely now though, and I created some new spam-trap mailboxes and sprinkled the addresses around several web pages. Nice to see their activity picking up again.

Slowly uploading my media collection from a slowly dying TrūNAS box up to B2… slowly 😬

I scored an old HP Microserver Gen10 from work with 4 4tb wd reds. Spent the weekend putting in an extra SSD for the OS and testing the drives. So far so good. Now I just need to figure out what I’m going to do woth it…

What’s up? Not Grafana. I did docker compose pull on the stack (without version pinning) then recreated the containers, and now it’s fucked. Or maybe it’s not because the logs are fine but it only serves the web app but 404s on any connection to the Grafana backend.

Now I need to do some investigation into any recent changes to try to work out what’s going wrong.