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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
Returning from a training course in Norway, and generally really impressed by how beautiful the place is, from what little I've seen of it.
It's definitely worth a return journey at some point, on my own time and under my own steam.
I played a show with my band on Saturday. We were just the opener at a dive bar show, but it was still a ton of fun. This was our third show but before that I hadn't played out since January 2020. It's been great to be up on stage belting out songs again.
Finally put my little 12U rack back together. And I even started putting things in it this time! Bought a hefty shelf that should arrive tomorrow. I'll use that for my tower server. Probably need to buy one more smaller shelf for the external HDDs and UPS, and another 3D-printed piece to mount a small switch.
It's annoying how expensive some of this is. The rack was $180 a few years ago. Which is a good price, but it's also just steel and mostly empty space. On the other hand, my Unifi CGU, which manages my whole network was $130. The shelf was $99 before some discounts and promo codes, which brought it down to under $50. I feel like a piece of metal and some screws shouldn't be more than $50, period. The 3D-printed mount for that CGU was $50 on Etsy. It probably cost a few buck to make at most. I get that businesses are the primary buyers of this stuff, and they have money, but still.
Oh well, at least my homelab setup is finally going to look nice and clean.
I installed Linux Mint on my grampa's all-in-one Samsung computer that's probably close to 20 years old. I think it originally came with Windows 8 on it, and he had done the free upgrade to Windows 10 when that was available.
It had a 500g HDD, which I replaced with a 500g SSD and it has 4 G DDR3 RAM, I'm scrounging around to find another stick that'll match so I can give that to him too but honestly I think the SSD + Linux is gonna blow his mind already with the speed.
He got to the point where he couldn't even browse Facebook or check his email cause that computer was so slow, so this is a huge quality of life improvement for him.