General Blather

This should be a simple question to answer, but I was asked earlier, and didn't have a great answer. more »

I know I suggested a first real snow on 1 December, but that snow melted away after a few days, and it's been the rare drifting flake since then. more »

I just learned about LocalAI. more »

While poking at the myriad things my servers are doing, I noticed a lot of warnings from my mail server to Google and others, so I spent a few hours figuring it out. more »

It turns out it isn't the case that you can just slap compatible memory in sockets and have the system deal with it. more »

It took some tinkering, a little trust, and acceptance that not all will be the same, but the new hard disk in the old desktop-turned-server is finally in use. more »

For years now we've had keyless locks on the doors on our home, but the one on the back stopped working with the app, and we never installed one on the garage. more »