After a week of using the new audio system, I found some things that I liked about it and some things that I didn't like about it. So with that out of the way, I needed to figure out something for the speakers. I found…

Access to music has long been an issue in the house, and it's been a very long time since we've had a traditional stereo to listen to music on. We've had a smattering of under-counter CD player/radios, Bluetooth speakers, headphones and earbuds coupled with tablets,…

I am, you could say, a Blue Team patch pusher: lock down your firewalls, update your software, use 2FA/MFA for account security, etc. I am data and privacy-conscious, which is where I run into issues with cell phones. I don't want to spend $1,000 on…

I have a bunch of older Gen 6 and Gen 7 HP servers that all use the battery-backed RAID cache. The RAID cache makes a big difference with disk read and write performance. When the battery won't charge anymore then the RAID controller won't use the cache and disk performance suffers.

Aftermarket mod to the rescue!

I had a home lab already, though the installation wasn't pretty. It was minimal but functional... and collecting dust in the basement sitting out in the open. Not dust from lack of use but really just where it was.

The setup wasn't a dedicated home lab -it runs some necessary processes such as a UniFi controller, Pi-hole, a Minecraft server, and so on. But I'll call it a home lab because it provides the opportunity to experiment, even though it's primary function isn't really that.