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How To Quiet A Ugreen 4800 Plus Without Sacrificing Drive Temps
I recently got a Ugreen 4800 Plus NAS, and it is basically perfect for what I wanted. Four bays, enough CPU, enough RAM, nice build quality, and it does not look like a sci-fi router from 2012. The first thing I did was wipe the OS it shipped with and install TrueNAS. That part was also great. The not so great part was the noise. I expected it to be louder than my old Synology, mostly because I moved from “HDDs in a plastic box” to “a more PC-like NAS with more airflow”....
Automating What Backblaze Lifecycle Rules Don't Do Instantly
I recently moved from Synology to TrueNAS and set up cloud backups to Backblaze B2. I have two buckets: one for important files like documents, and one for homelab services. The services bucket backs up things like qcow2 disk images for my VMs, some of which are hundreds of gigabytes. When I created the buckets, I set the lifecycle rule to “Keep only the last version of the file.” I assumed this meant Backblaze would automatically replace old versions when new ones arrived. It doesn&...
I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype
I do Advent of Code every year. For the last seven years, including this one, I have managed to get all the stars. I do not say that to brag. I say it because it explains why I keep coming back. It is one of the few tech traditions I never get bored of, even after doing it for a long time. I like the time pressure. I like the community vibe. I like that every December I can pick one language and go all in.
Imgur Geo-Blocked the UK, So I Geo-Unblocked My Entire Network
Imgur decided to block UK users. Honestly? I don’t really care that much. I haven’t actively browsed the site in years. But it used to be everywhere. Back when Reddit embedded everything on Imgur, maybe fifteen years ago, it was genuinely useful. Then Reddit built their own image hosting, Discord did the same, and Imgur slowly faded into the background. Except it never fully disappeared. And since the block, I keep stumbling across Imgur links that just show “unavailable.&rdquo...
OpenAI Demo'd Fixing Issue #2472 Live. It's Still Open.
During OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch event, they demoed the model’s ability to fix real bugs in production code. Live on stage. In their own repository. The kind of demo that makes CTOs reach for their credit cards and engineers nervously update their resumes. There’s just one small problem: the fix they promised to merge “right after the show” is still sitting there, unmerged, three and a half months later. The Demo At exactly 1 hour and 7 minutes into their launch video,...
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