It really ties the room together.
Butter, What?!
August 2023
I kind of miss social media, but I am simultaneously pleased to no longer be consuming or posting on both Twitter and Instagram. There was a time when I frequently shared my thoughts on Twitter, but my activity decreased notably...
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Butter, What?!
June 2023
Someone building their first NAS joined our Discord server recently, and they are in an extremely common conundrum. They are planning to run TrueNAS, but they don’t have enough room in their budget to fill their server with giant hard...
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Butter, What?!
June 2023
I have been printing with my refurbished Sovol SV06 for almost two months now. It is tough to complain about a 3D printer at this price point, whether you are talking about the $169 I paid for my refurbished unit,...
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Butter, What?!
May 2023
The new amd_pstate CPU frequency driver landed in version 6.3 of the Linux kernel. I saw Phoronix’s power utilization benchmarks, and the results didn’t look terribly exciting. There might be a couple of watts to be saved on a laptop,...
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Butter, What?!
May 2023
You don’t have to read this entire post to find my answer. Yes. Absolutely. If you need 70% more CPU horsepower, then do it now. Do it soon. Upgrading my overclocked Ryzen 1600 to a normally clocked Ryzen 5700X was...
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Butter, What?!
April 2023
I am never surprised by the DIY NAS builds Brian Moses publishes each year. I am usually on the other end of a chat helping him choose parts. I have been excited about the motherboard and case for this year’s...
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Butter, What?!
April 2023
Everybody loves free cool stuff. You love free cool stuff. I love free cool stuff. It’s not really that complicated. If it’s free and cool, then we would be happy to have it. Well, it turns out that someone is...
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Butter, What?!
January 2023
Maybe. I don’t know that I have enough data to know for sure. I stuck a Cloudfree smart plug running Tasmota onto my homelab server a few months ago. That got me messing around with maximum clock speeds and CPU...
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Butter, What?!
December 2022
I was checking the GL.iNet site to see if there were any firmware updates available for the GL.iNet GL-AXT1800 travel router. There was a new beta firmware available, and the changelog mentioned Tailscale, Zerotier, and some other new VPN-related features....
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Butter, What?!
December 2022
Which question should I be asking? Did I do a good job, or did we do a good job? I’m not sure which I should be focusing on here in this blog. I figured that as long as I am...
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