It really ties the room together.
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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Butter, What?!
November 2022
Tailscale Funnel went into alpha a few days ago. It is a pretty nifty new feature for Tailscale. It lets you tunnel TLS connections from the Internet into your private Tailscale network. Isn’t that fun?
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Butter, What?!
September 2022
I don’t know what made me pick up a copy of Severed Steel. I remember seeing it on sale somewhere, saying it looked really neat, and adding it to my Steam wishlist. I probably figured it would show up in...
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Butter, What?!
July 2022
We were debating the merits of a tiny but somewhat expensive 40-watt USB-C charger over in the #deals channel earlier today. I thought it was a pretty nifty charger, because it really is ridiculously tiny, but we couldn’t learn much...
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Butter, What?!
June 2022
I had a conundrum. I recently purchased a new laptop. It was a good value, but it is just barely old enough that it does not use USB-C PD for charging. I wanted to pick up a spare charger to...
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