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Self-taught Software and Systems Engineer working.

Blogging about Home Automation 🤖, DIY Electronics ⚡, Home Lab 👨‍💻 on https://ajfriesen.com

Living the Love/Hate relationship as a Linux Desktop User 🐧

Bloghttps://ajfriesen.com
GitHubhttps://github.com/ajfriesen
Enjoying Brandon Sandersons Mistborn series after a hard kettlebell workout.
This series good me hooked for real!

Could not sleep last night.
It's to warm, even thoug it is like 15 °C outside in the night. But 27 °C in my bedroom.
I turned down the heating weeks ago but it's going crazy.

Another hot night and hopefully the heating guy will take care of this.

Curious if I have to pay for this. Heating is damn expensive 🫰

Let's be honest:

I have a little over 100 courses on Udemy.
- started 17
- finished 0

I plan to finish 2 of those since I need this for work. It's about HashiCorp Vault.

Tutorial hell is a thing. Unless I apply the knowledge, I will not gain much.

How about you?

Had a long train ride today.
Could write almost the whole time on my self-hosted book.
Worked on the hardware chapter.

- benefits of different case designs
- How to buy HDDs
- HDD failures
- CMR Vs SMR
- Burn in rituals

What did you figure out the hard way building your NAS?

I want to make a survey regarding self-hosting. Maybe recurring every year or so .
Am I missing options? Maybe I forgot something.

Last week I needed to verify that a file is exactly the same in the backup to check the backups process.

First I wanted to go with md5 but that looked like a hassle.
Then I found cmp!

cmp - compare two files byte by byte

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cmp.1.html

cmp(1) - Linux manual page

The lead software engineer at Disney Streaming created a tool called https://github.com/jasongdove/ErsatzTV to let you stream your local media files like you had a real TV channel but with your content 😅
This is just funny and awesome!
GitHub - jasongdove/ErsatzTV: Stream custom live channels using your own media

Stream custom live channels using your own media. Contribute to jasongdove/ErsatzTV development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
I like this kind of Humor.
Tried to cut my jump rope to the right length.
Cheap chinese side cutters vs name brand product. Luckily my eyes are fine.

this is the best error ever 😆

ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM