Yeah, another OnlyFans update. Again 😛 Not the spicy platform. The spinning 12V PWM-controlled ones. But this story doesn’t begin with RPM charts and heatpipes. It begins with a completely different hardware component. The keyboard. A few weeks ago I noticed that some keys started failing intermittently. Specifically the numbers 1 through 4. The odd…
Tag: hardware
And another Proxmox update!
It is now almost a year ago that I started my Proxmox journey. Almost exactly a year ago Microsoft decided to push the infamous Windows 11 update and subsequently wrecking my homeserver in the process. And right now, I have a few more interesting things to talk about. Hardware “Node 3” is almost finished. I…
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, NO POST
Yeah, I know. That’s one hell of a cryptic title for this POST (pun intended 😛 ). Proxmox node 3 Yes! This post is about the third Proxmox node I’ve been assembling. Last Sunday, I finally had some spare time to install everything into the newly bought case. The process itself was straightforward: add extra…
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…