I’ve been blogging (on and off) for a while now. Originally, I just wanted a place to write down things I’d done, tutorials, idle thoughts, stuff like that. But since I’m also active on Mastodon (or recently GoToSocial) and link to my posts there I started wondering if anyone ever actually reads my posts or if I’m shouting into the void here. You know, idle curiosity. The obvious answer to that question comes in the guise of website analytics....
A while ago I became aware of Nix, NixOS and people who actually use it. I was intrigued by the proposition: configure your whole system declaratively so you can avoid configuration drift and combat issues with reproducibility. I tried it out and found that Nix is not straightforward to learn. Also, the documentation is gruesome. I decided that knowing Nix and applying it might be nice but I just don’t want to learn it right now....
A few days ago I started noticing strange behaviour of my shell. When typing commands or working with pasted ones, especially with tab completion, duplicated characters started showing up at the beginning of the line or in the middle in the case of working with a pasted command. Something like hx became hxhx or docker became dodocker. These duplicated characters were not editable, I could only clear the line and start fresh but the same thing would occur again, although not quite deterministically....
Sometimes I don’t work from home but at my family’s or a friend’s place. Turns out the router at one of these places is terrible and can’t reliably provide WiFi for my laptop sitting some 4 meters away (with 2 doors in between). I thought this was rather odd because my phone didn’t struggle with this so I asked around and thought about it some and the most obvious culprit seems to be the WiFi radio band that’s used....
A while ago someone (not pointing fingers but it wasn’t me) broke the Raspberry Pi my Jellyfin server was running on. I have no idea what exactly happened and why it doesn’t work anymore but it was incentive enough to finally tackle the project of acquiring or building an actual home server to host my stuff on. So far I’ve been making use of the two Raspberry Pis I own and they’ve been working mostly fine but every once in a while I came across some hiccups or ran into limitations of these devices (the Pi 4’s RAM being saturated for some reason) so I’ve been wanting to do this for a while....