My friends thought my rant was too kind. Hence I asked ChatGPT to create a more punchy one. And oh yeah! ChatGPT delivers! Donald J. Trump — the self-proclaimed genius who discovered that autism is caused by… paracetamol. Yes, you read that right. The same paracetamol millions of people use daily without issue. The same…
Month: September 2025
Rant Against The Overseas Orange Baboon
Yes, this is a direct rant against the Overseas Orange Baboon, a.k.a. Donald J. Trump. Our make-up orange carrot stated this week that he had found the root cause of autism: Tylenol (more commonly known here in Europe as paracetamol). Yes, according to Trump there is a direct link between paracetamol and the prevalence of…
Reacher update: 27-09-2025
Another week, another update. Weight: 106.7kg ( -0,4kg) Chest: 106cm Waist: 104cm Belly: 105cm Body fat: 26.0% ( 7 day average: 26.7% ) And another quarter has passed. At the start of it, I said I wanted to be at 99.9 kg by now. Well… I didn’t hit that goal. Not even close! My weight…
Reacher update: 20-09-2025
Another week, another update. Weight: 107.1kg ( -0,5kg) Chest: 106cm Waist: 104cm Belly: 105cm Body fat: 26.5% ( 7 day average: 26.8% ) It won’t be long before I have to punch another hole in my belt. Even though the scale has mostly been moving sideways, my body is still changing. My chest is starting…
From Single point of failure to High Availability
I wrote before about backups. https://www.familie-kleinman.nl/brain/index.php/2025/04/12/backup-stories-what-was-needed-to-get-to-never-again/ . Backups are the last line of defense. If everything else fails, you fall back on them. But that raises the question: what’s the first line of defense, and what can you build in between? Having your data on multiple hard drives, in RAID, is such a defense. One…
Reacher update: 12-09-2025
Yes, I know — again overdue. Weight: 107.6kg ( no change ) Chest: 105.5cm Waist: 105cm Belly: 105.5cm Body fat: 26.6% ( 7 day average: 27.0% ) Another update. No real changes, again weight is moving sideways. Another update in 7 days! Brain out.
Hammer was shutdown suddenly
This morning I got downstairs, opened my laptop and checked out my Bluesky account. First symptom.. Bluesky loaded slowly, seemed DNS resolving was slow as well. Tried to access my DNS / PiHole instance. Unreachable…. I decided to check my new Uptime Kuma console to verify network issues. Huh, site unreachable too?! Tried to ping…
Bios Power Saving Settings
The numbers still surprise me. My second Proxmox host — an i5-12400 with P- and E-cores, 128 GB RAM — dropped from 55 W idle (default BIOS) to 22 W idle after just ten minutes of tweaking C-states and running powertop –auto-tune. That’s more than a 50% energy saving, with zero loss of functionality. And…
From Modest to Mayhem: Hammer is now a Sledgehammer!
From modest host to mad scientist build — Hammer is now running an i9 with 128GB RAM On July 20, 2025, I published this article titled ‘Servers’, where I walk through the home servers we’ve assembled over the years. In that article, I wrote that the ultimate upgrade for my Proxmox host would be an…
Reacher update: 06-09-2025
Yes, I know — one day overdue. This time it’s a bigger update. I’m now six months into the new “me” journey, and it felt like the right moment to do some reflection. Weight: 107.6kg (-0,9 kilogram) Chest: 106cm Waist: 106.5cm Belly: 104.5cm Body fat: 28% ( 7 day average: 27.1% ) I’m a numbers…