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2 | title: "Personal projects and plans going forward" | |
3 | date: 2022-08-17T12:10:24+03:00 | |
4 | 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." | |
5 | tags: ['news', 'steam', 'steamdeck'] | |
6 | aliases: ["/future-personal-plans-2022-08.html"] | |
7 | type: blog | |
8 | draft: false | |
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10 | ||
11 | # Preface | |
12 | This blogpost will be mainly about the DIY projects I am about to do going | |
13 | forward from remainder of 2022 to 2023. It will only faintly touch topic of | |
14 | based.quest and cernodile.com, although some projects are tailored for it. | |
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16 | ||
17 | ## Project ReuseNAS | |
18 | As they say - reuse is more important recycle. I will take that principle to | |
19 | heart when building my very first personal NAS. For those who haven't known | |
20 | me for a long time, I have an older SFF PC from Fujitsu. It has been collecting | |
21 | dust for at least 4 years now as I built my very first proper PC with my own | |
22 | funds. | |
23 | ||
24 | The idea with this project is that I will reuse my old PC components, minus | |
25 | the processor and case (as it's not really fit for NAS) and repurpose it as | |
26 | a NAS. If my memory serves me correctly, it already has 8GB DDR3 RAM installed | |
27 | and originally is equipped with a Intel Celeron G530. I intend to upgrade that | |
28 | with an i5-2400 that I got second hand. As for the case, I will try to scourge | |
29 | my local second hand market for a case fit to house 4 HDDs. | |
30 | ||
31 | The only component I won't be using second-hand here are the actual drives. | |
32 | I will be purchasing 4x4TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro 7200RPM drives running in either | |
33 | RAID 10 or 5/6, if you think this is a poor choice, please let me know in Matrix! | |
34 | ||
35 | There will be 2 uses for this NAS. The first use is the obvious - backup my own | |
36 | files that are hard to come across off my PC and laptop. The second use is for | |
37 | creating an incremental backup system for my cernodile.com+based.quest infra. | |
38 | I will be doing a writeup on the latter on how I achieve it and the journey to | |
39 | have it working. | |
40 | ||
41 | The rough build date for this project would be either end of 2022 or Q1 2023. | |
42 | ||
43 | ||
44 | ## Project SteamBoxReborn | |
45 | Ever since I got my Steam Deck earlier this year, I've really started to appreciate | |
46 | the hard work that Valve has put into making Linux experience near flawless for | |
47 | almost any end-user. I want to bring this experience to a stationary PC machine. | |
48 | This is going to be a staple of my living room where it gets attached to a TV. | |
49 | ||
50 | There is the elephant in the room that prior to this point, building it with | |
51 | integrated graphics would have caused very poor experience to the end-user. | |
52 | However, thanks to AMD's recent developments on Ryzen platform to enable | |
53 | integrated graphics on every single CPU starting from Ryzen 7000 generation - | |
54 | this is no longer a concern. The RDNA architecture has proven itself with | |
55 | Steam Deck to be very powerful. | |
56 | ||
57 | There are no concrete specifications on this build yet other than the CPU | |
58 | generation and preferred form factor (mATX or lower) and that it has to run | |
59 | SteamOS 3. | |
60 | ||
61 | I will be making a video (and blog) about this build when time is near. For | |
62 | now it's just a rough idea that I plan to execute either early 2023 or mid-2023. | |
63 | ||
64 | ||
65 | ## Experiment DeckPC | |
66 | DeckPC is exactly what it sounds like. Using the Steam Deck as a PC. | |
67 | Okay, maybe it is a bit more nuanced on what I am trying to do here than just | |
68 | plugging in a dock and calling it a day. | |
69 | ||
70 | I intend to purchase a KVM switch alongside a dock, so I can switch between my | |
71 | actual desktop PC and docked Steam Deck on the same set of peripherals. | |
72 | ||
73 | While this is really basic, I still want to document my experience for this over | |
74 | a longer period of time - for example a month. | |
75 | ||
76 | I will try to use SteamOS as a regular desktop PC for a month. Sometimes game | |
77 | on it if there is no great controller support for a given game. Try do usual | |
78 | productivity workloads like browsing the web, using Matrix and such. | |
79 | ||
80 | This has no timeframe, it's either really soon or really late when I do get | |
81 | around to it - but it's something I'm entertaining in my mind still and wanted | |
82 | to get the idea out at least. | |
83 | ||
84 | ||
85 | ## Further considerations | |
86 | Framework please come to Estonia, I want to purchase one and make a review for it. | |
87 | My current laptop has caused enough troubles already. | |
88 | ||
89 | ||
90 | ## Going forward and the present | |
91 | I realize I haven't posted anything in nearly 4 months and as it so happens, the | |
92 | last 4 months have been the most hectic in my career development. I have devoted | |
93 | a lot of my time to work and getting further in ranks. This has been mainly at cost | |
94 | of my spare time and energy. I haven't forgotten about the site and care a lot about | |
95 | it still. | |
96 | ||
97 | I do intend to keep the place alive and do regular housekeeping around it. I am still | |
98 | reachable over social platforms and still ready to discuss on many topics. | |
99 | ||
100 | I can't promise increased activity, but rest assured I am still here for the site and | |
101 | journey of based.quest. Special thanks goes to a few of you who have decided to chip in | |
102 | generously for hosting costs, I appreciate every last cent of it. | |
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106 | ||
107 | Thank you for reading, | |
108 | - Cernodile |