I’ve been pretty busy with life and what not. I have been doing odds and ends with my gear, just haven’t done anything super noteworthy I think.But with that said I will drop an update.
I upgraded the mainboard in my Framework 13 to the Ryzen 7640U board since the 11th Gen Intel 1135G had failed on me. Nothing too serious aside from the laptop being rendered unusable. So I’m glad I was able to do the upgrade and I only needed to replace the RAM. But at some point the SSD I was using had also started to fail (confirmed by using in a different laptop) so it too was replaced.
I also ended up switching to Arch + Hyprland with BTRFS and snapper snapshots. I made the switch since I had tried out Fedora Kinoite 42 when I was testing the SSD I replaced and was impressed with how that worked out. I ended up not liking the immutable root filesystem aspect of it, and was curious if there was another way that would be distro agnostic. That’s how I landed on the snapper snapshots, and I chose Arch because I apparently like to live dangerously.
I also went ahead and added some repos to my Github that cover some PowerShell work I’ve done. Nothing fancy but it’s my code and I like it 🙂 Link at the top if you want to check that out.
I’ve been working on making a decent ZFS backup script that can take snapshots daily and then push them to an offsite server. Still a WIP since I’ve encountered some quirks when handling ZFS snapshots later. Specifically if you do a recursive snapshot and have to remove snapshots from a subvol or dataset, it gets upset when you try and then do an incremental send/receive. I had decided to remove a VM I no longer needed and thought I could remove the backups as well. So I’m working on how to best handle that scenario going forward.
I’ve also made some changes to my internal self hosted stack. Still trying to find tools that I can end up using to help with the ADD stuff I have going on. It’s also down to habit building, and that’s the harder part. That said, I’ve removed a lot and added some. I did end up needing to move my services into a new subnet since I gave myself a really small range in an existing subnet and that won’t do when I end test spinning up a bunch of stuff for testing and have no IPs left to use.
Speaking of self hosting, I’m also going to rebuild my FreePBX instance. Something is wrong with the GUI interface not making proper changes to the asterisk files on the backend, so for awhile now I’ve had to make changes in two places so that it works and looks right in the GUI. Not ideal, and a clear sign something is broken somewhere.
Anyhoo. I’m going to cut this short, it’s already a novella. Just wanted to let the people that may stumble in I’m still alive and active. Just haven’t done anything I deemed fitting of it’s own post lately.