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NASv5 on AMD Zen 3 “Cezanne”
After my latest NAS build, which was the v3, around two years ago (and there existed a v4, which was more of a temporary measure) v5 is the device that I’m currently using since Q1 of 2024. The main difference, aside from moving to an AMD-based platform, was making it all solid-state, meaning there are…
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NASv3 on Xeon-D
This article is just a glance at my latest NAS build and isn’t really meant to be a tutorial. I would rather define it as a number of ideas that you can use when they are building their own device. What is a NAS? Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level (as opposed to block-level storage) computer data storage server…
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Nvidia vGPUs for gaming
Since I like to play games, and doing so with friends is even better, I decided to put together a hypervisor that could be used to run games on physical LAN parties. It would host a couple of virtual machines with GPU acceleration, all pre-configured to allow incoming RDP connections using Sunshine. Essentially a local…
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The HP T740
Just like most homelabbers, I like mini PCs. They are cute, use very little power and are quiet, at least in idle and under light loads. The Intel NUCs were at the forefront of this revolution and it’s quite unfortunate that Intel has discontinued that division. The newer generations of Mini PCs seem to have…
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Making a 6×4″ eInk picture frame
My grandmother’s birthday is coming up and I was wondering what to give her when I remembered this video I watched a few months ago on an eink picture frame. I checked pimoroni’s site and they actually had larger, 7″ variants in stock, which can neatly fit in a 10x15cm (6×4″) picture frame, so I…
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“thin” servers from Thin Clients
The hardware I managed to snatch two Igel M350C thin clients off of ebay for a very reasonable ~$45 per piece, shipped. Which doesn’t sound all that impressive, but these actually have AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G CPUs. Ryzen Embedded R1505G is a 64-bit dual-core embedded x86 microprocessor introduced by AMD in early 2019. This processor is based on AMD’s Zen microarchitecture and is fabricated on a 14…
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The build of a Linux-based music streamer
I like music. But every time I want to listen to something it feels like too much of a hassle to fire up a computer and I often think – nah, it doesn’t worth turning on a pc for 10 minutes. So, I decided to have a peek at what sort of streaming boxes were…