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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. |
| 15 | |
| 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. |
| 103 | |
| 104 | |
| 105 | |
| 106 | |
| 107 | Thank you for reading, |
| 108 | - Cernodile |