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diff --git a/content/blog/2024/desktop-nas.md b/content/blog/2024/desktop-nas.md index 458c5a3..1f29ff8 100644 --- a/content/blog/2024/desktop-nas.md +++ b/content/blog/2024/desktop-nas.md @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ +++ title = "A desktop AND a NAS?" author = ["Michał Sapka"] +date = 2024-08-31T21:05:00+02:00 categories = ["blog"] -draft = true +draft = false weight = 2001 image_dir = "blog/images" image_max_width = 600 @@ -10,26 +11,28 @@ abstract = "How many computers does one need?" +++ I've been using a Synology NAS for a few years now. -It served me well, but I never liked the UI... or the lack of ZFS. +It served me well, but I never liked the UI... nor the lack of ZFS. -With the comming of autumn (which can't come soon enough) I am starting to prepare to build a desktop for myself. -I don't really need it, but I've never did it before. -Somehow I always had someone to do it for me, and them the era if notebooks came upon us. +With the coming of autumn (which can't come soon enough) I am starting to prepare to build a desktop for myself. +I don't really need it, but I've never done it before. +Somehow I always had someone to do it for me, and then the era of notebooks came upon us. But this makes me think if I still need a NAS? -My synology just sits in the corner and serves movies to TV and backups photos. +My Synology just sits in the corner and serves movies to TV and backups photos. None of this requires a 24/7 on device, and serving movies in 2024 is pretty taxing on the little fella. -Too taxing, since transcoding a 10 bit HVEC monster in real time is impossible. -Having a dedicated GPU for that would solve, so I'd install jellyfin on my new desktop either way. +Too taxing, since transcoding a 10 bit HEVC monster in real time is impossible. +Having a dedicated GPU for that would solve this pickle, so I'd install Jellyfin on my new desktop either way. I also don't have that many hard drives - just 4, plus 2 SSDs for cache. -Any decent non-gamer oriented case would accomodate that. -I'd need one that **also** fits a pretty Radeon, as Baldur 3 seems to be must play for me. -I don't care about big AAA games, so other that BG3, I'd most likely mostly play whatever [Adventure Gamers](https://adventuregamers.com/) rates high. +Any decent non-gamer oriented case should accommodate that. +I'd need one that **also** fits a recent Radeon, as Baldur 3 seems to be a must-play for me. +I don't care about big AAA games, so except of BG3, I'd most likely mostly play whatever [Adventure Gamers](https://adventuregamers.com/) rates high. How dumb idea is this? -Is there any downside? +Are there any downsides? I have no idea! -I would not be able to run thigs like photo gallery for my family, but I could relegate a Raspberry Pi just for this. -We are currently using Apple something something, so it's also not all the photos out there. +I would not be able to run things like photo gallery for my family, but I could relegate a Raspberry Pi just for this. +We are currently using Apple something-something, so it's also not the case where anyone can access all the photos. +Or I could go crazy with it, and get myself a tiny PC and treat is firewall (about which I've been thinking for some time) and make it the actual computational server. +Just decouple the storage. diff --git a/content/blog/2024/rubens-retro-corner.md b/content/blog/2024/rubens-retro-corner.md index b3dd648..5fb89bb 100644 --- a/content/blog/2024/rubens-retro-corner.md +++ b/content/blog/2024/rubens-retro-corner.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ +++ -title = "Reben's Retro Corner" +title = "Ruben's Retro Corner" author = ["Michał Sapka"] date = 2024-08-31T19:11:00+02:00 categories = ["blog"] @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ image = "blog/images/ruben-retro-corner.png" There are not many sites I visit for the _feeling good inc_. I would if there were more! But then, there's [Ruben's Retro Corner](http://retro.rubenerd.com/). -It as school as it gets, and it gives me the joy I had when I first discovered the web. +It as old school as it gets, and it gives me the joy I had when I first discovered the web. I don't go there for the content (which is cool), but for that smile it brings to my face each and every time. The fact, that it's written in human-readable HTML 3 is just a cherry on the top. |