One of the primary purposes for our homelab FreeBSD box is for data backups and storage for myself, Clara, and our family. Just over four years ago to the day, we replaced a couple of 4 TB Western Digital Blues with two 12 TB drives. It’s always a good day when you can replace a drive because you’re adding capacity, not because you’ve had a failure.
I don’t know if you...
One of my regular haunts has a new house blend. Tastes great!
Here’s to a new week. Let’s do this. 💪
By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-08-24.
Sam posted this on his blog (RSS feed) in the context of “AI” code review comments, but is broadly applicable:
I wish people would just go back to being themselves.
Hazards are part of the job when you volunteer to collect and restore old computers. When electrolytics, Rifas, and Vartas aren’t exploding, you may still risk shocks from CRTs, an Australian spider, and contending with odours. Such was the case with a smoker’s 486 which I discussed on a BSD Now,...
I’ve only ever programmed DIP EEPROMs with my XGecu T48, and entirely for retrocomputers of the 8 and 16-bit variety. But I wanted to revive an old motherboard with a dead BIOS chip, so I sourced a replacement and programmed it.
The chip in question is a SST39SF040, an EEPROM...