Chinwag Posts

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
Over a year ago I put a pair of cheap 1TB NVMe SSDs into each of the three servers in my little cluster, primarily to act as caches to improve storage performance.
They cost three times as much now, so I've pulled them out of the live setup because if any fail I'm not going to replace them at current prices and I'd need to reconfigure the whole thing at that point anyway.
I can use these much better as a single disk array I think, and keep a couple on the shelf as spares. Maybe that'll keep things online until either prices come down or we revert to a hunter-gatherer civilization.

I don't think I'll be catching up on the laundry tonight.

Tomorrow I will prepare a second meal using leftovers from this one, and somehow make something larger.
In my kitchen, once again proving via practical experimentation that cooking a meal for only one single human being is something I am incapable of.
Spent far too long looking through tiny on-screen menus on my audio recorder trying to find out how to turn on phantom power for the inputs before realising there was a physical switch for it on the side.
Technology has broken me.

