luftruessel

Got my hands on an old laptop. Since I started using nix a little while ago, and want to migrate to NixOS for my servers, this will be the starting point. Started cobbling together some code to commission it as a smart tv platform. KDE Plasma BigScreen is what I’m looking at atm.

I have a basic dashboard set up in my home assistant that I never check. Don’t even know how it works, I forgot. That’s why I really want to just put my whole setup in code. That’s why nothing is happening, the chore just seems so daunting.

So I listen for complains ringing through the house and react accordingly.

The backup server at my parents house really did not want to run. Something kept breaking to the point that no web interface or SSH worked. Now I’m not new to self hosting, so I ran my fair share of HDMI and USB cables across my space to debug something on my server. But at my parents place it’s just that extra bit annoying, since I only bring my laptop. Finding a screen is doable, but the keyboard got me more than once. The only one they have kicking around has a freaking PS/2 cable… not even my salvaged backup hardware is old enough to support that. Not just once I had to wait for friends to get back from work so I could borrow their keyboard just to press ‘any’ key.

I decided to handle the issue by getting an IP KVM, which should help me deal with that, right? Wrong! I installed a new drive and that piece of **** goes into some secure boot loop or whatever that is too fast for my KVM to turn on…