At some point all browsers in my PC started to refuse showing accented characters (e.g. è) when the correct keys are pressed (first ` then e). This started happening before reinstalling the OS (Ubuntu Studio 22.04). Reinstalling the system, which came about for other reasons, did not help.
My only NAS is my PC. At least, what people would usually do with, or build a NAS for, I just do it with my PC.
Most of my disk storage space is a BTRFS RAID 1 using two 6TB WD BLACK 3.5″ HDD. This setup offers block-level redundancy which is better than the classic device-level redundancy offered by Linux Software RAID or hardware RAID. To keep BTRFS file systems healthy, it is strongly recommended to run a weekly scrub to check everything for consistency. For this, I run the script from crontab every Saturday night (it usually ends around noon the next day).
One Sunday morning, after many successful scrubs, I woke up to both disks failing, each in a different way. But this was not the end of it. And the end of this adventure, disks emerged victorious.
Keeping reading to find out how the disks came back from the dead.
Need. More. Server. Need. More. POWER!!!
But only a little bit, maybe just enough to run a Minecraft server, which refuses to start on my Raspberry Pi 4 because it has only a meagre 2 GB of RAM.
I had known about Intel NUC tiny PCs for a while, and how handy they can be to have a dedicated physical PC for experimentation. There was a very real possibility that I would have to set one up as a light gaming PC in the near future, so I thought cutting my teeth on a simpler server setup would be a good way to get acquainted with this hardware platform and its Linux support.
Never got the hang of telegraf, it was all too easy to cook my own monitoring...
In fact, when I started building detailed process monitoring I knew nothing about telegraf, influxdb, grafana or even Raspberry Pi computers.
It was back in 2017, when pondering whether to build my next PC around an Intel Core i7-6950X or an AMD Ryzen 5 1600X, that I started looking into measuring CPU usage of a specific process. I wanted to better see and understand whether more (but slower) CPU cores would be a better investment than faster (but fewer) CPU cores.
At the time my PC had a
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE C3
with 4 cores at 3.4GHz, and I had no idea how often those CPU
cores were all used to their full extent. To learn more about
the possibilities (and limitations) of fully
multi-threading CPU-bound applications, I started running
top commands in a loop and dumping lines in .csv files to
then plot charts in Google Sheets. This was very crude, but
it did show the difference between rendering a video in
Blender (not multi-threaded) compared to using the
pulverize tool to
fully multi-thread the same task:
This early ad-hoc effort resulted in a few scripts to measure per-proccess CPU usage, overall CPU with thermals, and even GPU usage.
Audible is great, and the app is not bad, but I find Plex and other apps more attractive to use for audiobooks. Now, if only I could take my books home...
Added Bonus: pick your own choice of book covers!