Walking in a technology wonderland

  I have played around with Linux for about 20 years, and I am constantly amazed by its ability to make simple things hard Why? Well, I tell myself it's money, but in truth it is more about the achievement of making things. Maybe it is a holdover from the days men went to kill woolly mammoths, but that feeling of overcoming obstacles feels great, even if the end product is not as slick as a bought product. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), installing anything with Linux will have issues. Some things procedures have been smoothed out over the years, but the more you dive into it, the more issues you will hit. It's not as if, however, there is no advice. In fact, it is the opposite. There is far too much, but many of them are badly written assuming some critical knowledge or out of date dealing with legacy software etc. However, as Mission Impossible says, "Your mission, should you choose to accept it..". Start the theme music now The challenge For example, a few y...

Argon 1 case Recently I setup my own NAS server using a Raspberry Pi 4. So far it has been working nicely, however one thing that has been annoying me is the case. When I chose the pi 4 (USB 3.0, better performance, etc) I was worried that it would suffer heat issues, since it ran a lot hotter than the Pi 3. Therefore i decided to buy a case which could include a fan. However at the time, Pi4 cases were not common, and the case I chose, although cheap, was not ideal. The case had a fan which could be included in the case and ran continually. Unfortunately only after a few month the fan now creates an annoying rattle, which the more i hear it, the more it becomes annoying, to the point I have had to disconnect the fan. Although it has turned out the Pi4 in this application runs less hot than I was expecting, I still wanted some head room, in case I added extra functions which increased performance requirements. Therefore I decided to look for another case. This is where I c...