So what have I been doing with my time since I’ve been able to do anything I wanted. Well not much really. I’ve taken the opportunity to do what ever I feel like and honestly thats been not much at all. I did manage to run my first 10k at the beginnning of the month though, which went well. I’ve also been decorating our conservatory. It’s taken longer than I expected but thats because we weren’t sure about what we wanted, and my partner and me wanted to do as much together as we could. So we’ve only had the weekends, but the big bits are done and so I can do the rest of it with my free time.
NAS 🔗
I added a new drive to the NAS/media server. I initially had it configured with two 1tb drives, I wanted to be happy with the functionality and setup before spending any more time or money on it. I’ve been using it for most of the month and been happy with it. Then the news from Western Digital that they had sold out all their drives, this prompted me to by a new 500gb drive for the server. I’m using NVMe drives so I’m not directly affected by the WD news but prices have been rising switftly on NVMe drives already, and I can see that getting worse.
So I’ve now rebuild the server, still running TrueNAS Scale but now on the 500gb drive with the two 1tb drives in a mirrored array. 1tb should be enough for a while and I wanted the redundancy of having them mirrored.
Navidrome and Supersonic have been nice. They have worked well so I’m sticking with them. I’ve added Symfonium to the mix and thats been preforming well. So I’m pretty happy with the setup.
I’m not sure what else I might want to do with the server, maybe get it setup to stream over the internet, but it’s not a priority right now. I do need to backup the TrueNAS config, as I think it would make it easier to rebuild if required in the future.
Games 🔗
Playing Helldivers 2, I’ve not realy figured out the game properly, or I’m not very good at it. But it’s fun to play, eventually I will join some randoms but for now I’m just playing on my own. Warhammer 40k - Space Marine 2 went on sale and it’s been on my wish list for a while so I picked that up. I’ve only played the single player, it was fun, but shorter than I expected.
Books 🔗
Finished off Wind Up Girl, it’s a fun book with an interesting setting. I decided to re-read a the Atrocity Archives, I’ve read it a few times. I do really enjoy the Laundry series, but the first one is my favourite I think. I’m about 5 or 6 book behind on the series, which I think is finished now, maybe I’ll catch up this year.
Programming 🔗
At the end of the month I decided I wanted to learn how to write a Neovim plugin. So I wrote a small plugin to show marks and allow jumping to them, mark-window. It’s been interesting to play around with Lua. I probably didn’t read the docs well enough. I found it hard to figure out the vim apis, but I think thats a me problem.