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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Years ago a friend gently nudged me away from the usual get-together ice breaker of “what do you do for a living” because it’s inherently biased to the well paid professional. He suggested I change to the more open “how do you occupy your time” . The answers are far more interesting and I never need to make stay at home spouses, underemployed or unemployed people feel uncomfortable… this post reminded me of that (we are not our corporately bestowed titles)


  • I started with a DS216Play back in 2016. It’s been running 7 years non stop. It can serve so much including Plex but the cpu is too weak to do serious transcoding. I recently pulled the trigger on a DS220+. As before I got WD Reds as my older 5400rpm have worked so well over time. You can do your own research but at present only intel based can really transcode.

    I use my NASes as the primary storage class in my k3s via nfs provisioned. More recently I setup a functional docker registry and portainer.io instance on them.