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My new NAS has much louder disks than the old NAS but in practice I have noticed a lot less seeking noise from the disks. ZFS caching seems to be the key factor. I'm a ZFS convert.
Authy discontinuing their desktop apps is going to be a big downgrade in terms of usability for me. I have been wanting to move out for a while anyway but there's no easy way to migrate.

Got around to assembling a new NAS over the weekend (with a second hand motherboard and CPU).

https://nl.pcpartpicker.com/user/rroa/saved/M3sFP6

I tracked a lot of my daily walks in Strava this year and ~1 hour average of activity per day over the year feels good in retrospect.

I know the first knee-jerk reaction everyone has is to blame the "techie" for sharing their OTP in the first place.

But it still baffles me how regularly this happens in the Indian banking system. Among other things, surely there's lots of room for improvement to distinguish between i-am-paying and i-am-being-paid flow.

Dress code was to light up for the company Christmas dinner and that's what I did. (Unicorn Hat HD with a Raspberry Pi)
Looks like Kadaster, the Dutch Land Registry, has been handing out access to search through the ownership details of every residential home in the country without any vetting. Only thing you need: any company's registration number and the company name - both public data.
After years of supply chain issues, looks like we are finally past the Raspberry Pi shortage.
Almost 3 weeks later, I finally received a copy of the data in my Reddit profile

I am happy about this because this country could sure use a breath of fresh air after having had the same PM for 4 elections in a row.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/07/dutch-government-collapses-after-asylum-talks-break-down/

Dutch government collapses after asylum talks break down - DutchNews.nl

The Dutch cabinet has reportedly collapsed after the coalition parties were unable to agree a deal to limit asylum seeker numbers. Ministers have been holding talks for weeks to try to find ways of reducing pressure on the asylum system, but the prime minister, Mark Rutte, raised the stakes this week when he threatened to pull the VVD party out of the cabinet on the issue unless a deal was reached before the summer recess. The VVD wanted to create...

DutchNews.nl