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Cake day: October 24th, 2024

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  • One consideration is to look in detail on which tools you see yourself owning in the future and the extent which they are covered by each candidate brand. It can resolve the headache of having to adopt a second (or third) battery system. I went with AEG about ten years ago for my 18V tools and they are become scarce in my local stores now, and I am considering switching as well as the tools (and batteries) wear out, but haven’t decided to what yet. For 14V I have already switched to Milwaukee because of their angled driver and socket wrenches.










  • A router provided by an ISP is not your hardware, thus any network behind it is by definition not controlled by you. There have been numerous cases where they have backdoors or known admin passwords. In cases where there is a wire type transition (for example incoming over coax or fiber) it might be necessary to use it though. Same if it is necessary due to your contract.

    In my cases I always turn off the wireless antennas and switch it to bridge mode, then place my own router/firewall device behind it.

    Edit: still learning to spell.


  • Support your local small businesses so they don’t go bankrupt. Purchasing anything from Europe will have you pay tariffs to support the orange guy’s administration. Oh yeah - vote so the current admin gets weaker.

    Other than that - I have limited sympathy for the country that voted in the current chaos willingly making the world unsafe and trying to throw the victim of military aggression (Ukraine) under the bus. And that is coming from someone who is half American with relatives living in the US.







  • Without knowing what ypu plan is in detail, here’s one example of a plan for a NAS…

    • Flash your SAS card or get an LSI card you can flash to IT mode.
    • Install TrueNAS Scale and set up your ZFS volume with your existing SAS drives
    • If any drive fails, exchange it for a SATA with at least the same size and re-silver.

    You wouldn’t need to exchange all of them at the same time as long as the one you are swapping in can hold all the blocks the old one did.