I'm starting a homelab festival (you're invited):
Review and teardown when @eevblog
Here I was, hoping for a good time today.
Home assistant 13 years old!
🎂 Happy birthday to us!
Home Assistant is officially a teenager. 13 years old today 🥳🏠
Here’s to the teenage years! 🎉
Apple's considering entering the server market again, with the M8 Ultra.
But I found the axed rackmount server Apple was building in the late 90s at VCF Midwest—the ANS 300. Thanks to @ClassicII_MrMac for telling me more about it!
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If you're at VCF Midwest, come all the way to the back corner and check out my NTP Time demo on a bunch of old Macs! (Starring an Xserve G5 with an acrylic cover). Also check out Mr. Macintosh's rack full 'o Xserves across the pod! #vcfmw#
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I'm outta time! I'm packing for VCF Midwest today, but did finish up the last three projects for my NTP Time demo on old Macs: Xserve G5, Mac SE/30, and iBook G3 Clamshell (over AirPort Wi-Fi!). #vcfmw#
Also a bonus look at AppleTalk-based time transfer:
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Everyone out here talking about Apple's new phones. I'm just interested in their design labs running a Raspberry Pi CM4-based resin printer, front and center in this shot lol
Latest little 3D printing life hack: print drafts of new models in white PLA. Easy to scribe, mark up with a pencil, see dimensions in any lighting, etc.
So much easier sticking pencil marks on the model than making notes on a sticky.
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All these creator monetization programs upping their requirements these days. I can no longer 'monetize' on X (not that it changes what I post here)
APC/Schnieder discontinued their UPS NMC2 in 2022. Rather than upgrade to their proprietary $470 NMC3, NetCube Systems Austria built an open replacement, the OpenNMC.
I've been testing one. It's a drop-in upgrade, and it includes NUT!
Video here:
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Coming to VCF Midwest? If you're like me, it's hard trying to remember where everything is, especially with @vcfmidwest taking up the ENTIRE expo hall this year.
So I made this tool last night:
Now it's a lot easier to find exhibitors! #vcfmw#
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BigMaclock, LilMaclock
(Big one is using NTP)
I restomodded a 1995 GPS Time & Frequency Server, and learned wire wrapping, a little GPS history, and how to avoid the Telstra back-to-2006 bug. Video:
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Wire wrapping is neat. Never tried it before, but now I have and I love it for prototyping!
(And no that is not AI-generated, somehow the physics of wire wrapping results in these beautiful little towers of gas-tight low-resistance connections!)
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A little Mac SE/30 surgery leading up to #VCFMW# 21! <2 weeks remaining until VCF Midwest 😬
Guess what I'm installing in this 1995 GPS Time Server?
Before NTP there were Time and Daytime:
I needed a mini mobile homelab setup for VCF Midwest, and I've never used UniFi gear before.
Thus I built this tiny homelab network rack, that fits in my carry-on luggage:
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Even without a total eclipse, tonight's lunar eclipse was a beautiful sight. #stlwx# did not let us down, not a cloud in sight! #lunareclipse#
📷 Sony A6700 w/ Celestron Nexstar 90GT
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