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Set up HA to sent a metrics to Prometheus over MQTT so I can scale the PostgreSQL server I have on my home cluster for development down when my PC is off:
#MQTT #HomeAssistant #PostgresQL

When we built my new desktop PC last year in early January I kept the old monitor because it was working fine. Son picked up a new cable to connect it to the PC because the old one had the wrong fitting for the new build. It was a bit short but I rearranged my desk and moved the monitor over to the right side of my corner desk. I finally succumbed and bought a longer cable yesterday. And it's so much better having the monitor in the centre of the desk again. It only took me a year! 🤦‍♀️<…

Going live with LOTRO tonight on my Linux PC! Middle-earth runs smoother on Tux than a hobbit on second breakfast. Come join the adventure! 🐧🧙‍♂️ #LOTRO #LinuxGaming https…

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115968326488298310
No joke, starting up my desktop PC to make the switch! See you shortly! Love you all!

My TrueNAS computer (HP Z420) is beeping non-stop. The TrueNAS interface doesn’t show anything wrong, I’ve rebooted and it’s still beeping. (Maybe I should try a shutdown?)
I don’t know enough about PC hardware to know what’s going on…
#truenas #selfhosted

"I have no internet on my machine anymore". OK, on-site visit.
Me: "What's that connection here?"
"Oh yeah, that colleague added a Wireguard Tunnel on my PC so I can access his server."
M-hm. Let's check the config...
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?

This was both my ringtone & ringback tone in the early 2000s when the 1st Pocket PC phones emerged.
Whenever my phone would ring, people around me would always turn & laugh.
▶️ Why This Song? | Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iqr-QktAB5

I'm in Australia right now. I can boot my home PC via Wake On LAN to access my files if I have to. I placed a webcam in front of it so that I can verify that it actually does so.
It's weird seeing my computer 16.500 km away from me. It feels like my own little Mars mission. Especially with how SSH feels at 300-400 ms latency.
And yes, that's a drinking glass I forgot on my desk.
#HomeLab

from my link log —
What is a PC compatible?
https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/what-is-a-pc-compatible/
saved 2026-01-04 https://

I am looking forward to my next hardware upgrades so I could contain Windows to a single PC that I'd absolutely need for Windows dependent stuff. I mean, now I am literally signed-in by default in Notepad?? And when I click my profile pic in its toolbar, it has one cheeky "Sign out" option??? I give up coping with this enshittified OS. Microsoft should pay me to use me as a research subject.

I reinstalled MX Linux on my father's mini PC because because it wouldn't connect to the Internet or the local network. After half an hour of scratching my head, I still didn't know why.
After reinstalling and configuring everything (network printer, email, accounts for various websites, etc.), I realized that the IP address I had assigned to it was already taken.
It doesn't matter how much you know about system or network administration if you're a complete m…

Caught myself in a #GenX moment: I need to book/order a fairly expensive thing, I'll fire up my PC/laptop, I don't trust my smartphone to do that on there. Not that Android is unsafe, but for this expensive operation I need screen real estate 😜 Who's with me?

Man, I leave my PC idling on Linux and I often forget I have it on because it makes practically no noise. If I leave this thing on while on Windows I can hear the fan going crazy all the time.

So I had installed #Windows 11 on my son's game pc. He wants to play games with his friends, and some only run on Windows.
(Looking at you @… and @…

My main PC is a HP Omen gaming PC with a 3090 Nvidia card 16GB of Vram, 80GB of ram, and 7TB of storage between the SSDs and the HDD.
I spent $1200 on it 4 years ago used. It's repreciated back up to that price.
I wonder if we're looking at a future where PCs prices age like real estate.

@… OneKeePass and Secrets are reasonable Linux alternatives. I'm not wild about them, but I use Keepassium on my phone and would like to have an app on my Linux PC that uses the same format.

I’m excited to see the return of Steam Machine.
With my experiments of using the Linux Desktop mode with the Steamdeck … this absolutely puts a full Linux server in a lot of homes.
A good spot for a PDS, Tailscale, and a bunch of other things.
https://bsky.app/profile/jaypeters.net

Jay Peters (@jaypeters.net)
If you want some video of the new Steam Controller and Steam Machine (a Valve-made PC for the living room!), check out this that @seanhollister.bsky.social and I made together!

Valve are launching a new controller and a new gaming computer and a new VR headset early next year.
My main question is, don't people release these things in time for Christmas any more? Maybe it's running late.
Kinda need a media PC for the new bedroom in December. Do I want to wait until early next year? Grr. Needs to run two monitors and a projector really too, which may be tricky for a machine with only two video ports.
A VR headset that isn't owned by Facebook will be a blessed relief. Designed to run on Linux? Amazing. Hope it's brilliant.
Don't think I have much use for the controller though. Only really play games in VR these days.
Looks great! Three months too late!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKrKTwtukE

the team behind material for mkdocs have built a new static site generator
i open their webpage and it lags my entire pc with, i think, this background animation of "moving lines". taking a screenshot took several seconds and chromium stopped rendering the ui at one point
any idiot can make an efficient static site. it takes pure brilliance to make it inefficient (why does it need 1 GB of GPU memory?!)

Dear IT Friends – We Are Called To Action
If you are like me, you have probably experienced your neighbors, friends and family asking you to help them fix their PCs and give them technical advice. That was always a bit odd for me as I was a big systems guy and relied on our internal IT team for PC advice and support.
But the times are changing, aren’t they?
It feels like we are facing so much new danger. And some groups are definitely targets. In my company our success was…

They say only the mightiest of systems can handle the journey to Mordor. Tonight, my Linux PC proves its strength! Streaming Lord of the Rings Online and continuing my adventure. Find out what secrets lie ahead! ⚔️ #LOTR #Linux

Well, shit. Guess I picked a bad day to re-case my PC and upgrade the GPU. Everything went well until I tried to update the OS, which failed while tossing a Mesa dependency error. Did some checking, and it seems to just be a Mesa issue I can't really do anything about ATM. So I'm stuck in 4K/basic graphics driver mode, with screen tearing a-plenty, till tomorrow? Hopefully? lol.
The new case looks nice at least.

I guess I missed my window
#oldmanshoutsatai

In recent weeks, I have been quietly weeding masses of historic stuff. Things from which I'm detaching myself. Now I'm unexpectedly misty-eyed after stumbling across one of my first emails to a FreeBSD list.
2015, late December. PC-BSD, slightly broken or non-functional, but I was motivated.

I vibe coded a game in Claude Opus 4.5. It is neither perfect nor a one shot. This took about 4 hours or so. The image is from Nano Banana and yes, that's my old Saab 900s from my LA days. The game is meant to evoke a video game on a PC or Mac in 1991.
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert<…

SIGALERT by frater-pedurabo
A 3D wireframe driving game.

If you have Amazon Prime, you also have Luna Standard for gaming which includes Hogwarts Legacy for free, an excellent game. I see what Amazon is doing here, making gaming without a game console cheap and lock people in…
For a casual gamer like me, Luna is great, cheap, I can play on my large television or PC etc. Always good performance, no hardware necessary (besides a controller).
#amazon

Just swapped the 0.4mm nozzle of my 3D-Printer for a 0.2mm Nozzle. The level of detail and smoothness is stunning. Printing dust covers for USB A and C ports
#3Dprint #3Dprinting #3Ddruck

I've got a closed cycle water-cooler in my main PC that has started gurgling *LOUDLY* - it normally mostly settles down a few minutes after startup, but sometimes restarts; I mean *LOUDLY* - it's about 4 years old now; there's no sign of leaks or anything amiss; suggestions?

Currently setting up my new laptop (HP EliteBook X Flip G1i), and so far:
1. The device was delivered with a bundled warranty that already started 50 days ago
2. The supplier delivered a Battery Replacement Care Pack for 3 years instead of 5 years as ordered
Called HP for the warranty precox, had to send the invoice. Agent: "Yeah, it's gonna be about 2 weeks till we correct that."
(OK, Laptop won't leave the house until then)
Wrote the supplier for…

The only thing more reliable than my Guardian's heals is my Linux OS. 🛡️🐧
Back in Tyria tonight streaming #GW2 from my trusty Linux PC! My machine has zero bloatware and 100% dragon-slaying optimization.
Come hang out! 👇 https://www.twitch.t…

Successfully switched an old Chromebox to running Ubuntu Server last night. This one will probably wind up at my parents' place, and I'll grab another mini PC for here, so I'll have geo-redundant, ISP-redundant backups that don't require a cloud, on hardware low-power enough that electricity use is a rounding error.

I just realised the PC I turned into an all-Linux machine had the only MS Office install I had in the house. My other, all-Windows, PC has only LibreOffice on it, and I don"t even notice using it daily o.O

As I mentioned earlier, I switched to Thunderbird (Mozilla) for all of my email collection. Been using it for over 24 hours and have it set up the way I want it on both pc and phone. Excellent program.
Now here is a stupid security? rule that just doesn't work: ANU emails can't be configured to a 3rd party email client like Thunderbird even through IMAP. However, one can set up, in ANU's web Outlook interface, to forward them automatically to a bloody Gmail account! 🤦‍♀️<…

Master class today for the team on how to automate bulk transfer of files to the PC.
simple XLS file. Inserted the library name and then copied the list of members they asked for. a simple formula and it generated the GET commands for FTP. It takes maybe two minutes to create, copy into my generic FTP batch job and run it. Two minutes they have a copy of 247 files.
AUTOMATE, AUTOMATE, AUTOMATE!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/newsis-consumer-gpus-to-increase-in-price-next-year-rtx-5090-to-increase-from-2000-to-5000.1394815/ I bought my ASRock AMD RX 9070 XT not long after it launched, for fea…

I vibe coded a game in Claude Opus 4.5. It is neither perfect nor a one shot. This took about 4 hours or so. The image is from Nano Banana and yes, that's my old Saab 900s from my LA days. The game is meant to evoke a video game on a PC or Mac in 1991.
https://frater-pedurabo.itch.io/sigalert<…

Who needs 32GB of system memory anyway? 🧐
I couldn't resist installing #CachyOS back on my main PC, on a separate SSD, alongside Windows. AMD is a first-class experience in Linux. I just downloaded The Alters, and FSR 4 simply works with my poor RX 7800 XT - without Optiscaler or any kind of manual DLL swaps.

@… I use OneKeepass on my Linux PC, Keepass in Windows 11 (in a VM), and Keepassium on iOS. I sync the database to a cloud drive. I don't use Android, so can't tell you about that.

Streaming Lord of the Rings Online again tonight! The Yule Festival is in full swing, so we're diving into the festive quests in Winter-home. If you need a cozy, chilled-out holiday stream, come hang out.
As always, running perfectly on my Bazzite PC. See you there!
Starting soon at https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

So apparently Unreal Engine is built to sell AIOs, lol.
I recently started playing The Alters. Haven't gotten super far yet. Just re-cased my PC and was testing things to make sure everything was good. Saw my CPU (AMD 7600X, 105w TDP) was hitting 90c. Eep. Realized the new case fans were all 3 pin, so no PWM. Bought all new 4pin case fans and installed them. Tested again.. still 90c. Wtf?
Didn't think the thermal paste was an issue, but I also didn't have any more so…

Merry Yule, Middle-earth! 🎄
It's officially time for holiday shenanigans in Bree-land. We're diving into the LOTRO Yule Festival quests and snowball fights, all running smoothly on my trusty Bazzite PC.
🔴 LIVE NOW: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

Tonight: Tyria meets Tux! Streaming Guild Wars 2 now, running flawlessly on my Linux PC. Jump in and say hi! #GW2Stream #Linux #MMORPG 🐧 🎅

Did another sanity check on the 2nd PC and installed The Alters which is an Unreal 5 game. My internet bill gonna be higher this month cause I apparently passed the cap limit (thanks for failing to send me the warning email Comcast) but whatever. Booted it, checked the settings (Epic, Native AA so the 1080p the display runs at) and loaded in.. to a buttery smooth 60fps.
So it's definitely something going on with The Last Caretaker. I have no idea what, tho. For some reason in game …

Ho ho ho! Linux Santa has arrived! 🎅 Tonight, I'm streaming Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO), delivered flawlessly from my stable Linux PC. Come get your gifts of smooth frame rates and Middle-earth cheer! #LOTRO #LinuxGaming

Streaming some GW2 tonight! My Linux PC is ready for adventure. Join the party in chat! #GuildWars2 #Gaming #Streamer

My Linux PC is fully powered and stable for a great night of streaming! Diving into Lord of the Rings Online now. It's going to be epic! #LOTRO #MMORPG #Streamer