Please wait...
"day of the dead battery"
Boogie board on the fridge for groceries.. dead. ( but impressive, it had the original battery for close to 10 years i think. it was a gen1.. still going strong )
One of the security cams.. dead
My bedroom IP phone.. dead..
One of the cars.. dead..
Living room thermometer.. dead..
Have
still have 8 of the mini ones, and 1 of the project i help start + the expansion bus board.
None of them are populated . just shoved in a bag in the closet. I started to populate the fruit of my project.. but that is when i started losing interest in it all. So after a few caps, it was over. ( and the next month or so later, the retro-purge happened )
Wed Apr 24 2024 22:24:56 EDT from IGnatius T FoobarYou had Z80 boards?
So we are now to be in the basement? How fitting :)
I've got some enterprise SSD's coming this week, so if they work properly then yes, Uncensored will be down here in the garage sometime soon. I've been spending some of my late nights here ever since installing this machine, not using it as a server (yet) but as simply another place to tinker. This room is also my "shop" so there's a bit of a "man cave" feel to it, reminiscent of the basement in my old house where I spent many nights on the computer.
The screen is an old Westinghouse LCD with 1280x1024 display. I'm running my terminal program with the Terminus font in 12 point (one of its native sizes) with font smoothing disabled. It has a lovely look, a bit retro but clean and easy to look at.
Speaking of SSD
Been having an issue over here that i thought was power related. System turning off at random times. Not just a freeze but actual power down.
Turns out its a bad SSD.. never seen that one before.
Here are the specs, which you don't care about, but I'll list for posterity anyway.
Case: a cute little Datto backup appliance, repurposed as a generic Mini-ITX computer.
Power supply: PicoPSU-120, modified to bypass the PicoPSU for the P4 CPU power connector. Currently fed by a 120 watt 12 volt DC power brick. I have plans to add battery backup and maybe even a solar panel to supplement it.
Brains: Intel Core i9-9900 @ 3.10 GHz. 8 cores, 16 threads. Turbo boost is disabled to stay within power budget.
Memory: 32 GB
Boot disk: Intel SSDSC2BA800G3 (800 GB) enterprise grade SSD. This disk only holds /boot/efi and swap.
Data disks: 3 x Intel SSDSC2BX016T4K (1.6 TB) enterprise grade SSD. These are formatted as a btrfs volume and mounted as the root filesystem. RAID1 mirroring is in effect.
For the time being, www.citadel.org and uncensored.citadel.org are running as virtual machines. I just copied them verbatim from their old location.
In the coming weeks or months I will be converting them to LXC containers so they will use the hardware more efficiently. The VPN router, which tunnels the hosting environment to the data center where it is exposed to the public Internet, has already been converted to a container.
Feels good to be home again. And it will continue to feel good until the next power outage.
Batteries. Project Phase 2.
Wed May 08 2024 22:26:33 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar.
Feels good to be home again. And it will continue to feel good until the next power outage.
May not be as fancy, but It would be about the same as i was talking.
Would be easy to test if its smart enough.
Fri May 10 2024 18:43:15 EDT from IGnatius T FoobarBattery system is coming. Dunno when. And I'm wondering whether I was overthinking it. I have an extra car battery charger here. Perhaps I should just wire it to a deep cycle marine battery and then straight out to the load? The charger already knows how to back off when the battery is full, so it would seem that's all the sophistication that's needed?