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Nothing much happened during the holiday season except that in an unusual turn of events, my CM3588 NAS kit killed three of the four SSDs I had in it. Before I go into that, I should pay homage to the holiday season and mention I got the expected amount of socks, plus a few other doodads. I also spent a while trying to clean up my office,...

The native feel and feature set is nice and all, but breaking ssh sessions because of reporting itself as xterm-ghostty and hoping it will be fixed by updating terminfo (which will never happen on 99% of current systems) is not something that seems like a good idea. My immediate workaround was to set term=xterm-256color in the config file (there...

Here’s a funny story: Some time ago, I contacted TerraMaster to inquire if they were interested in having me review their products, but they declined. And then, unexpectedly, I got my hands on one – in particular, I got a F4-424 Max, which is currently one of their most interesting SOHO products due to its dual 10GbE ports and a powerful CPU....

Last year was tough, but all manner of things ratcheted the overall difficulty to eleven, and here we are. AI and Machine Learning I had to start with this because it’s been a major theme of the past two years, and it’s not going away–plus I have been working extensively in this area in both my day job and personal projects. And yet, other than...

The past couple of weeks have been somewhat unusual, with everything except work slowing down as the holidays approached. However, halfway through Friday afternoon, I set my out-of-office message, shelved my work laptop, and enthusiastically checked off items from my to-do list. The Nomadic LifeI took advantage of the additional quiet time to run...