recently reconnected with family on my dad’s side. tl;dr on him is that he was a terrible person but his family reached out to see me again, after 10 years. we didn’t talk about him at all, and instead mostly about my dogs. was pleasantly surprised that they were not of a different political affiliation than me, too.
also recently got back into working on my homelab! scored a crazy deal on ebay for a custom built NAS with 8 bays, just missing the hard drives. I want to ideally replace the power supply because the brand seems questionable (it’s 30 dollars for one on amazon) but the other parts are solid and I really like the case. hopefully me and my partner can round up some more hard drives in the future for expansion into the NAS. at current we have a RAID 1 mirror of two 10TB drives in a synology off the shelf NAS. but other than that, I recently wiped everything to start over again, because somehow, my cousin who works in IT thought it was a good idea for me to use root login and I had no means of protection up on the server whatsoever. at least I insisted on using a VPN to connect to it…
other than that, one of my dogs recently had dental surgery (he’s okay!) and I started playing Destiny 2 again with my partner and joined a clan, loving it a lot. did my first raid in years after the last one was such a disaster it was a tipping point in me quitting the game originally.
things are okay? I think? and I’ll take it to be totally honest.
recently reconnected with family on my dad’s side. tl;dr on him is that he was a terrible person but his family reached out to see me again, after 10 years. we didn’t talk about him at all, and instead mostly about my dogs. was pleasantly surprised that they were not of a different political affiliation than me, too.
also recently got back into working on my homelab! scored a crazy deal on ebay for a custom built NAS with 8 bays, just missing the hard drives. I want to ideally replace the power supply because the brand seems questionable (it’s 30 dollars for one on amazon) but the other parts are solid and I really like the case. hopefully me and my partner can round up some more hard drives in the future for expansion into the NAS. at current we have a RAID 1 mirror of two 10TB drives in a synology off the shelf NAS. but other than that, I recently wiped everything to start over again, because somehow, my cousin who works in IT thought it was a good idea for me to use root login and I had no means of protection up on the server whatsoever. at least I insisted on using a VPN to connect to it…
other than that, one of my dogs recently had dental surgery (he’s okay!) and I started playing Destiny 2 again with my partner and joined a clan, loving it a lot. did my first raid in years after the last one was such a disaster it was a tipping point in me quitting the game originally.
things are okay? I think? and I’ll take it to be totally honest.
also, nice to be back!