📣 PSA 📣

We've managed to get a basic ssb account setup and running. If you're interested we'll be available over there too going forward.

We can be found at

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Thank you @ed_packet and @tklk !
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@kemonine was kind enough to share a couple photos of their latest 🍭 ☁️ build

A home-assistant.io 🍭

It's running a remix of our base, home-assitant.io and some miscellaneous pieces and parts.

The core pieces are a 5" hdmi touch screen, so-pine, z-wave usb controller and sparkfun weather board
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We're back!

Seems we had 2 users in our database without an info struct.

So yeah, we were more quiet than usual...

That said

A remix KemoNine finished up recently. A sopine powered storage box.
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KemoNine just shared some screen caps and pics of the final Nano Pi Neo2 + NAS Board setups they've been working on the last few weeks.

They successfully got zfs to work inside 1Gb RAM on a 64bit arm board *and* were able to replace/upgrade a disk in a zfs pool while *also* using the board for other disk io and network io operations.

This has *serious* implications for the positive.

On our arm64 boards we now have a very robust filesystem that can be used to help with data durability and integrity over time.

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Pictured is KemoNine's current setup that verifies a few concepts we've wanted to get sorted for awhile now.

We now have zfs working on 1Gb RAM arm64 boards and partially sorted a VPN kill switch. These are key pieces for long-term utility of 🍭 ☁️ devices and we're glad to see the initial setups become stable.

The VPN kill switch is "reversed" from the way we'd like it to work but the overall concepts in this build are quite sound. The kill switch needs work to be "reversed" such that it defaults to the VPN and kills non-VPN traffic. Currently it allows traffic by default and you have to special case VPN traffic, non-ideal but it proves the overall concept of separated networking quite well.

We won't be releasing details of this build (it's too experimental and heavily remixed) but the core concepts will be fine tuned and make their way into our documentation over time. Mainly the zfs setup and samba / windows file sharing pieces.

We will also be working on reversing the VPN kill switch that's present in this build but it will likely take awhile to be reliable. We anticipate this being a more advanced feature / deployment than we initially hoped.

The pictured build is about $150 USD in parts (including the disk). All of the disk io and network io is run through a USB2 and the combined IO of the setup maxes out around 50-75M/s sustained. It's not perfect, but for a budget setup this is a good mini-NAS build. This setup allows you to put 2Tb of disk in a semi-redundant fashion on a LAN for bulk storage across multiple devices.

There is even enough RAM headroom for NextCloud, bitwarden_rs and SyncThing.

It has begun...

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Parts list
- Nano Pi Neo2
- Neo2 NAS board
- 2Tb Western Digital Blue 2.5" disk
- Power brick
- Noctua 40mm fan
- Samsung 840 EVO mSATA + USB Adapter (not included in pricing and wholly optional)
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We did it!
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@Rheall continues to amaze with their fantastic work!
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We're really excited about this! :D

> We won't keep the suspense long, but before we announce them we'll explain our randomization process so our prints creen will leave no doubts to anyone about who won:
- We gave each entry a number in the comments and pulled those numbers and names into a spreadsheet;
- We then used random.org's sequence feature to randomize the order of those entries;
- After that we used the standard random.org process to get ourselves a winner!

**The person who'll get home an Orange Pi and some extra tech goodies at home is: @alyxmaia**


They already got a DM asking about their details so we can fill a customs form and send the prize as soon as possible!

# Here's what they'll get from the Lollipop Cloud team (in no particular order):

- orange pi pc;
- spark fun usb serial adapter;
- samsung 32gb micro sd card;
- sandisk 128gb cruizer fit;
- 3d printed case;
- power cable;
- noctua 40mm fan:
- lollipop cloud stickers (we couldn't help ourselves)!



# We hope they'll like it!

Thank you very much for participating in our giveaway, everyone!

Keep your eyes peeled for more fun stuff to come around these parts... ;)
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The human manning our responses for the giveaway is semi-broken at the moment.

They will be back to respond to your responses after these messages.

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