Category: Ramblings

  • End of Nextcloud

    End of Nextcloud

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    Halfling13

    As commented yesterday, I have been undergoing another shift in my home server and the capabilities, to try to improve the overall performance and reliability.  As part of this, I ended up trying to rebuild the Nextcloud personal cloud server, so that it would be more efficient.  Previously, it was sharing a 300 GB VM…

  • Shuffling the cards again

    Shuffling the cards again

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    Halfling13

    Spending some more time, re-juggling my website configuration and features, this time to move back to a hosted service.  I have found that recent activity on my home server has fundamentally overwhelmed my little WordPress server, so I have had frequent registered outages.  Of course, traffic is almost non-existent, so outages are not a big…

  • Not as productive as hoped

    Not as productive as hoped

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    Halfling13

    Despite great plans to the contrary, I ended up not being as productive over the holidays as I had intended.  Initially, I had lots of plans for getting caught up on videos and podcasts, painting miniatures, gaming, and various other activities.  I actually ended up barely touching the video content, only painting a fraction of…

  • New Year, new Internet

    New Year, new Internet

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    Halfling13

    For many years, many more than I can recall, I have always had AT&T for my internet service provider.  They have been a mostly reliable provider, with solid service, decent prices, and the top speeds in my area.  However, they have slipped a bit recently in the speed category and pricing.  Since I work from…

  • End of the Holidays

    End of the Holidays

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    Halfling13

    Holidays are wrapping up, and it is back to work next week.  Scheduling wise, I am preparing to start the GURPs Warhammer campaign next week, character guidelines and details are finished, and just need confirmation from a couple of the players.  Pathfinder is back in session the week after, as the group continues their assault…

  • It’s My Birthday

    It’s My Birthday

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    Halfling13

    It’s my birthday today, and enjoying some time with family. Continuing our new tradition of seeing Star Wars in the theatre, and then likely dinner and pie or something similar.

  • 4K Roku Fix

    4K Roku Fix

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    Halfling13

    It’s a week of solutions as I also seem to have found a fix for the 4K Roku and TV issues. We had upgraded the main TV to a 4K HDR model, using a Roku Streaming Stick +, capable of 4K HDR. However, after numerous attempts, 4K content continued to give a HDCP error, indicating…

  • Ark: Aberration

    Ark: Aberration

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    Halfling13

    Similar to my Nextcloud difficulties, I have also been having difficulties with our custom private Ark servers since the release of Aberration. The original servers with The Island and Scorched Earth are still working fine, but I wanted to add an Aberration server as well.