This is a small blog where I talk about tech, from servers to CNC. That is all.
About
I’m an occasional systems administrator who prefers self hosting over pay hosting or many ad driven services. I’m also a Java and C developer and engineer with a background in 3d design and an interest in 3d printing, lasers, etc. I also have no idea how to blog.
Blog
NAS V2.0
My NAS has been getting old, and it’s been getting more and more noticeable over time. Considering that I built it in 2013, I’d say it’s had a good 10+ year lifespan and could use a solid upgrade. I plan on reusing a fair bit of hardware, but I also plan on moving to ZFS …
Additional Squeezelite Stream Stability
After I built out my two speakers running squeezelite on esp controllers, I ran into some issues when streaming music to them. Sometimes they would stutter, skip, or have other audio playback issues. I knew these weren’t problems with my media files, so it had to be my setup for the speakers.
Unraid Disk Shown as “New Device” When Its Full of Data
While working on setting up my new hardware and bringing my unraid pool back online on it, I encountered an odd problem that made me sweat. I started my array and immediately it gave an error that the cache drive failed. This was odd since that drive was fine just before I started installing the …
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