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+Personal projects and plans going forward
+
+# Preface
+This blogpost will be mainly about the DIY projects I am about to do going
+forward from remainder of 2022 to 2023. It will only faintly touch topic of
+based.quest and cernodile.com, although some projects are tailored for it.
+
+
+## Project ReuseNAS
+As they say - reuse is more important recycle. I will take that principle to
+heart when building my very first personal NAS. For those who haven't known
+me for a long time, I have an older SFF PC from Fujitsu. It has been collecting
+dust for at least 4 years now as I built my very first proper PC with my own
+funds.
+
+The idea with this project is that I will reuse my old PC components, minus
+the processor and case (as it's not really fit for NAS) and repurpose it as
+a NAS. If my memory serves me correctly, it already has 8GB DDR3 RAM installed
+and originally is equipped with a Intel Celeron G530. I intend to upgrade that
+with an i5-2400 that I got second hand. As for the case, I will try to scourge
+my local second hand market for a case fit to house 4 HDDs.
+
+The only component I won't be using second-hand here are the actual drives.
+I will be purchasing 4x4TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro 7200RPM drives running in either
+RAID 10 or 5/6, if you think this is a poor choice, please let me know in Matrix!
+
+There will be 2 uses for this NAS. The first use is the obvious - backup my own
+files that are hard to come across off my PC and laptop. The second use is for
+creating an incremental backup system for my cernodile.com+based.quest infra.
+I will be doing a writeup on the latter on how I achieve it and the journey to
+have it working.
+
+The rough build date for this project would be either end of 2022 or Q1 2023.
+
+
+## Project SteamBoxReborn
+Ever since I got my Steam Deck earlier this year, I've really started to appreciate
+the hard work that Valve has put into making Linux experience near flawless for
+almost any end-user. I want to bring this experience to a stationary PC machine.
+This is going to be a staple of my living room where it gets attached to a TV.
+
+There is the elephant in the room that prior to this point, building it with
+integrated graphics would have caused very poor experience to the end-user.
+However, thanks to AMD's recent developments on Ryzen platform to enable
+integrated graphics on every single CPU starting from Ryzen 7000 generation -
+this is no longer a concern. The RDNA architecture has proven itself with
+Steam Deck to be very powerful.
+
+There are no concrete specifications on this build yet other than the CPU
+generation and preferred form factor (mATX or lower) and that it has to run
+SteamOS 3.
+
+I will be making a video (and blog) about this build when time is near. For
+now it's just a rough idea that I plan to execute either early 2023 or mid-2023.
+
+
+## Experiment DeckPC
+DeckPC is exactly what it sounds like. Using the Steam Deck as a PC.
+Okay, maybe it is a bit more nuanced on what I am trying to do here than just
+plugging in a dock and calling it a day.
+
+I intend to purchase a KVM switch alongside a dock, so I can switch between my
+actual desktop PC and docked Steam Deck on the same set of peripherals.
+
+While this is really basic, I still want to document my experience for this over
+a longer period of time - for example a month.
+
+I will try to use SteamOS as a regular desktop PC for a month. Sometimes game
+on it if there is no great controller support for a given game. Try do usual
+productivity workloads like browsing the web, using Matrix and such.
+
+This has no timeframe, it's either really soon or really late when I do get
+around to it - but it's something I'm entertaining in my mind still and wanted
+to get the idea out at least.
+
+
+## Further considerations
+Framework please come to Estonia, I want to purchase one and make a review for it.
+My current laptop has caused enough troubles already.
+
+
+## Going forward and the present
+I realize I haven't posted anything in nearly 4 months and as it so happens, the
+last 4 months have been the most hectic in my career development. I have devoted
+a lot of my time to work and getting further in ranks. This has been mainly at cost
+of my spare time and energy. I haven't forgotten about the site and care a lot about
+it still.
+
+I do intend to keep the place alive and do regular housekeeping around it. I am still
+reachable over social platforms and still ready to discuss on many topics.
+
+I can't promise increased activity, but rest assured I am still here for the site and
+journey of based.quest. Special thanks goes to a few of you who have decided to chip in
+generously for hosting costs, I appreciate every last cent of it.
+
+
+
+
+Thank you for reading,
+- Cernodile
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+;description: This blogpost will be mainly about the DIY projects I am about to do going forward from remainder of 2022 to 2023. It will only faintly touch topic of based.quest and cernodile.com, although some projects are tailored for it.