Proxmox on the FriendlyELEC CM3588 NAS Kit

Nope. I still own the original OP-1 and quite enjoy it, but this is quite a few Euro notches above the Field version and I think I’d rather build my music gadgets from here on out. Still, it’s one heck of a fashion statement. Can’t wait to see it on Bad Gear.

Yeah, I skipped a few weeks’ worth of notes, but the gist of things is that I moved to a new role, had a grueling first week (wasn’t able to leave the house for breaks), slept through most of Saturday and am still trying to figure out where all my free time went. The high point of the week is that I got a TerraMaster F4-424 MAX NAS in the post,...

I had a lot on my mind today (my recent change is taking a much bigger toll than anticipated), but this was, of course, inescapable, even for someone like me who abhors politics and never mentions it. To my US readership: I didn’t get a vote. And I understand that the US is a deeply divided country, and that at least half of you actually thought...

I think this both vindicates my year-long interest in running LLMs on industrial “edge” hardware and signals that it’s time to step back and re-assess how to address that space. 3.2 TOPS isn’t exactly stellar performance when compared to what you can (nominally) get out of a RK35xx’s built-in NPU and way below the target for things like Copilot...

Well, this came completely out of left field. As someone who relies on Pixelmator daily since they shipped 1.0, I am happy for them, but sincerely quite afraid Apple will botch this–their track record with acquisitions is dismal (just look at how they gimped Shortcuts even as they folded it into the OS, how Dark Sky essentially vanished, and what...