There’s tons of ideas and drafts scattered around my six note keeping apps, yet my blog averages about one post per year, not to mention the proliferation of Generative AIs. what’s going on here? It’s not like there’s nothing to write and whine about.
Continue reading Blog migration, alternatives, and other thoughtsAuthor: tonysan
Dual-boot Steam Deck with Ubuntu 24.04 and Windows
The hardware
I’ve always been a fan of handheld form factor. In the 2000s, Sony’s VAIO UX and Fujitsu Lifebook U were my dream gadget, but the hefty price tag were very out of reach for a college student.
Now, the Steam Deck is a gaming PC that fits in the palm of your hand, A 7″ 15W TDP AMD APU that goes for 3-12 hours battery life, depending on usage – it is just too good to be true for my younger self who is still stuck in 2000.
Continue reading Dual-boot Steam Deck with Ubuntu 24.04 and WindowsSetting up a PXE boot environment – Part 1: TFTP Server & DHCP Server
Disclaimer: Regardless part 0 is more or less around Raspberry Pi, in this post, I am only implementing a bare-minimum version of PXE, it will only handle single architecture (x64) and either UEFI or BIOS, not a general purpose PXE environment. some of the PXE boot environment mentioned should also work with Raspberry Pi 3B+ or above, here’s the official Raspberry Pi documentation.
Continue reading Setting up a PXE boot environment – Part 1: TFTP Server & DHCP ServerTrueNAS (FreeNAS) – 7 years later
7 years after the original FreeNAS, It has changed a lot. Guess it’s time to write some recap and experiences along the additions and modifications to my NAS. It’s gonna be a long one, for those impatient, here is the TL;DR:
- Maxed RAM to 128G
- Added a PCIe NVMe expansion card, and
- Upgraded mirrored boot device to NVMe drives
- Added another NVMe drive for L2ARC
- Upgraded disks from 4TB to 8TB
- Upgraded switch to MultiGig (10G/2.5G) – Not directly related to the NAS itself
- Peak CIFS get a nice bump, from 3.5Gbps to 5.45Gbps
自從組 FreeNAS 已經過了七年，特別寫一篇 blog 詳述中間各種變化與升級，下面條列升級重點，給沒時間細讀的人參考。
If you are still interested, keep going…
對細節有興趣的請繼續往下看…
Continue reading TrueNAS (FreeNAS) – 7 years laterSetting up a PXE boot environment – Part 0
Upon learning that Raspberry Pi 3 and above has PXE boot capabilities, I pulled out my dust gathering, poor Raspberry Pi 3B… My motive is NOT to re-image that MicroSD card every time I want to tinker stuff, simply plug-in, power up, and viola, at least ideally.
Continue reading Setting up a PXE boot environment – Part 0