Is a New Year Innit

It's been a minute lol

Many changes since the last post. A lot for the better, some for the worse, but such is life.

Have had some pretty serious infrastructure changes to the 'home lab' in that time. Lucked out and got an SuperMicro X11SSH-F with 32GB ECC and a Xeon E3-1275 V6 for $200. Given the current situation with RAM it was certainly a swoop. I was mainly wanting to get on the ECC train for my ZFS pools, though for a general user I'm not sure how necessary that is...but whatever we're here now.

Ended up paying...probably more than what its worth for another 16GBx2 to bring the board up to its max of 64GB. So quaint in this day and age but far overkill for the system will generally be doing.

I ended up pretty much rebuilding that LANbox host more or less from scratch, within Proxmox LXC/VM instead of bare metal like before. Got GPU pass-through setup for a Deb13 VM to run things like Plex, Immich, Ollama and split off my file shares to a TKL File Server LXC.

Which ... I'm still not entirely sold on LXC. People seem to rave about them, and I will admit my exposure is currently pretty limited, but ... so far not really a fan.

I also shuffled cases during this. I moved my main desktop into a Fractal Designs North, and moved LANbox into that Lian-Li PC-V1000 case for it's much improved air flow. The HDD cages in the HAF XB are SUPER TIGHT AND HOT. Poor drives were in there sweating tits off. I don't think they even break 40C under load in the Lian-Li.

But I also learned I was ... probably overloading the PSU cables on my Seasonic. I forget how I had it setup, 3-4 drives on one cable and 2-3 on another. Apparently that is a bit much start up current. Ended up getting another cable so it's 2 drives per now. But that also means with this PSU I'm capped at 6x HDD. Not a huge deal, I'm getting like 30TB from that as it stands currently. But in the future it's either bigger drives or new PSU.

What else has been going on....Oh I quit vaping nicotine lol I think I started smoking about 17, switched fully to vaping some time around 30, and now at 37 I've given that shite up. In all honestly my lungs and body don't feel all that different. It was more that I didn't like being tied to this dumb lil device by seriously strong ties, and then it would be a little asshole and I'd get immediately frustrated. It was a whole series of events I could cull but just stopping. So I did lol. I think it's been like 7 weeks today.

Oh and I'm getting my top two wisdom teeth removed this upcoming week and pretty sure when I had my only bottom one removed I was foolish and gave myself dry socket trying to use the vape. Won't be an issue this time.

Hmm what else can I ramble about...

Not sure if it was quitting nicotine, or starting to track my caloric intake, or a combo of both but I'm actually putting on and retaining weight for the first time since like fucken high school. It's very relieving. I can't really even explain why other than I just felt I was too skinny that entire time.