Raspberry Pi

Testing … Mr. Watson, come here, I want you. It works!

I got my greedy paws on a Raspberry Pi 5 last month. Probably the Pi after this, will be the one at which I will say these are good enough and stop my “get ’em as soon as they are available” manic buying spree over the past few years. I use it as a music jukebox (with Jellyfin), as a place to host my audiobooks/files, as well as a syncthing node. Occasionally I will download and transcode videos I find interesting, with yt-dlp. ...

Update: 28/12/2021 The solution? Move off the 64 bit Raspberry Pi OS and install Ubuntu. Everything below is now just for history and context :) Every time I update my Pi, whether it be an kernel update or due to something goofy I do, it refuses to be accessible via ssh after it boots back up. And everytime I bring it back to my desk, it just works. And when I put it back into its niche, by the door, it continues to work. But inevitably, sooner or later, comes a reboot, and we’re back to being inaccessible. No ssh, no plex, no network. ...

This is just a play post to do a few things. One, I am now testing categories for the blog. So that the tech folk can subscribe only to the tech rss feed if need be. Second, I need to get into the swing of writing things again. It’s only been close to a month of not writing, but I already feel rusty 😂 I have been watching a lot of Netflix and other online streaming media last year. Well lot is relative. Definitely not as many as the books. But what I realise, is that I just spend my time endlessly browsing through what I want to watch rather than, you know, actually watching something. I also realise that most of my watching is mostly stuff I already watched. I want my old Holmes, or Yes Minister, or Suchet’s Poirot. Stuff I already have, offline. But not easily accessible, since it lies on an external hard disk, which I need to plugin to my desktop and then watch. ...