A while back I briefly wrote about using SmartOS and wanting to give it a spin. I ran short on time and excuses to try it, so I put it on the back burner, despite wanting to get into it. Well, great news! My dad’s server died and a friend’s TrueNAS CORE box needs replacing (it is having problems too, the plugins really do suck at times). With my dad having a timeline to meet to get a server up with a couple VMs, it was a great time to bite the bullet on SmartOS for real....
Lately I’ve been growing a little disappointed with Nextcloud’s offering. I’ve been running it since its first release, and overall it has been a great piece of software. However, lately I’ve encountered issues like sometimes the desktop client won’t use secret service (and there’s been lots of yelling about this on GitHub with 0 developer response), Nextcloud’s pursuit for new shiny stuff like AI without fixing the core software, and lastly, utterly breaking core software in big ways and shipping it anyway....
I’ve been using Nextcloud since its first release in 2016. It has been fun to watch it grow and improve over all these years. I sometimes hear people complain about how difficult it is to maintain, or it breaking and such. However for me, 8 years later, it has been incredible and put up with a lot from me. I started using Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi 2 with a 32GB flash drive for storage, a Raspbian 8(?...
I’ve only written tech stuff here, but I wanted to share a good recipe that I threw together for dinner tonight. It’s a pork top loin chop from Costco with buttery garlic mushrooms, and a white wine pan sauce. I made 2 loins for my wife and myself. Ingredients This is only an approximation, I throw stuff together on the fly. The meat: 2 pork loins Salt and pepper...
Today, I am going to try something very different. I am going to give TRITON SmartOS a shot. A number of years back, I tried OmniOS and loved it. But I wasn’t ready to move to it or anything. After trying out some of the Solaris zone and SMF stuff, I was hooked. It was really cool tooling to use and felt thought out. Now again, I am going to try again, but with SmartOS....