I'm just wildly pleased with the switch to #NixOS.
My Pi was super dead after the latest storm related power issues, even the external drive doesn't power up properly anymore.
So I hacked together a deploy script and repurposed the mini PC I wasn't actually using. A couple days later and now I've got #HomeAssistant back up in a container, centralized my admin and backed it up to version control.
"Maybe someday" automation items were accessible immediately. I love it.
This is the 9th version of Chalk Dust Torture played at SPAC, tying it with David Bowie for song most played at the venue.
Ten of tonight's 17 songs (so far) have had a gap of 20+. Four are 50+, but none 100+ #phish #geekery
https://phish.net/setlist/gap-chart/phish-july-20-2025-united-center-chicago-il-usa.html
For those who are interested: This is going well but it is a far longer process than I have done before. Usually I would resize all the disks and install the operating system and then restore the vital data from a backup drive.
This time I have elected to restore everything from my cloud based encrypted backup. This is 300+ GB in size. It's proving to be a long slow process which is annoying but also a really good test of my backup/restore process.
I expected it to be faster. I have restored multi-GB sized chunks of data
using this backup solution with no speed issues. This, however, is crawling. I have 70gb restored after ~7 hours time.
When I last set up my laptop a couple of years ago I didn't give enough space to the root partition. As a consequence I am running into difficulties when working with databases > 5gb in size. As a result I will be blowing it away completely and doing a full disk reconfiguration and re-install.
The plan is to give the root partition 30GB (prob a bit of overkill) and split out the /var directory onto its own 30GB (perhaps even bigger) partition which should give me enough space.
I know I am a geek as I am quite looking forward to this work.
(Bi-)Weekly Notes: May 12–25, 2025: Two weeks in the life of…. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past fortnight. https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/05/25/bi-weekly-notes-may-12-25-2025
Getting ready for my #live Internet #radio show on #anonradio ! Coming up in 25 minutes! 2300-2400 UTC! Pls tune in if your ears (and eyes) are free!
#electronicdancemusic #geekery
Video stream:
https://toobnix.org/w/37RMa2Mw9fj7BfAVhypVqa
Audio only:
Good vs Bad AI (or ML vs AI): I have decades of experience in creating artisanally hand-crafted typos and errors and have no interest in statistically generating my mistakes! https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/05/16/good-vs-bad-ai-or-ml-vs-ai
Why `rm -r .` doesn’t do what I want it to do?
This is the first time that Pebbles & Marbles and Walls of the Cave have appeared in the same set.
They have been played in the same show twice (12/8/19 and 2/25/03)
Weekly Notes: March 17–23, 2025: A week in the life of…. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past week. https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/03/23/weekly-notes-march-17-23-2025
Dites les toulousains, j'ai un #quartz64 à la maison et je n'arrive pas à installer d'OS dessus, le port console n'a pas l'air de fonctionner, mais je suis un vrai #noob là-dedans. Je cherche une install party ou quelqu'un qui aurait de l'expérience et qui pourrait m'aider à boostraper la chose.
le repouet aide calme l'esprit.
#iot #aarch64 #toulouse #geekery