I purchased five Minisforum MS-01 Work Station, specifically the Intel Core i9-13900H / 32GB RAM + 1TB SSD bundle from their German store (simply because I live in Germany) to replace my ageing F5-422 Ceph nodes.
These are my notes on initial bring-up.
These are my configuration notes on using a PiKVM V4 Mini to connect to my four Ceph nodes via a cheap 4-port KVM switch.
When I built my Ceph cluster in March 2020, I used old SATA HDDs I still had on the shelf. It was always clear that at some point these old consumables would die and need replacing. That time has come and I went with 3x 2TB SATA SSD OSD per node.
These are my notes on how to upgrade the UEFI firmware on my QNAP TS-473.
Just a short write-up on the state of my TerraMaster F5-433 Ceph cluster now that it has been in use for about 3 years.
These are my notes on installing a brand new Framework Laptop DIY Edition (12th Gen Intel® Core™) from Batch 1 for myself.
These are my notes on installing a brand new Framework Laptop (Batch 9) for a nephew of mine. It is the model with 11th Gen Intel Core.
In happy distro hopping, I installed CentOS Stream 9 on my QNAP TS-473A.
These are my installation notes. They are similar to my RHEL8 notes and my Fedora Server notes.
I installed Fedora Server 35 on my QNAP TS-473A.
These are my installation notes. They are similar to my RHEL8 notes.
I got myself a Mountain keyboard, the Everest Max.
Since I had to boot Windows to set it up properly, here is my braindump on what I configured for my daily use with KDE Plasma on Fedora Linux.
I also noted my impressions, both positive and negative.
