For the past few months, I’ve been regrowing carrot tops and the chopped off bottoms of onions; surprisingly, most of the craps survived. I did cover these in plastic tarp during the night to protect them from totally freezing. Moreover, this winter in the Pacific Northwest was relatively warm to the extent I saw flowers […]
For years, there have been so-called Intel X58, X79, and X99 motherboards manufactured by companies that had no official distribution in the West such as Huananzhi, Machinist, Qiyida, Jginyue, etc., but in fact these had server chipset equivalents such as 5520, 5500, C602, C612, etc. salvaged from dead server motherboards and integrated into new desktop […]
Recently, I built a new micro server for my home lab based on an ASrock DeskMini X600 with an AMD Ryzen 7 7700 CPU, one stick of 16GB DDR5 5600 SODIMM RAM, and a SATA 3.84TB SSD. I had an Alpine Linux virtual machine (VM) installed with minimal packages and with one CPU core, 256MB […]