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2title: "Personal projects and plans going forward"
3date: 2022-08-17T12:10:24+03:00
4description: "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."
5tags: ['news', 'steam', 'steamdeck']
6aliases: ["/future-personal-plans-2022-08.html"]
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10
11# Preface
12This blogpost will be mainly about the DIY projects I am about to do going
13forward from remainder of 2022 to 2023. It will only faintly touch topic of
14based.quest and cernodile.com, although some projects are tailored for it.
15
16
17## Project ReuseNAS
18As they say - reuse is more important recycle. I will take that principle to
19heart when building my very first personal NAS. For those who haven't known
20me for a long time, I have an older SFF PC from Fujitsu. It has been collecting
21dust for at least 4 years now as I built my very first proper PC with my own
22funds.
23
24The idea with this project is that I will reuse my old PC components, minus
25the processor and case (as it's not really fit for NAS) and repurpose it as
26a NAS. If my memory serves me correctly, it already has 8GB DDR3 RAM installed
27and originally is equipped with a Intel Celeron G530. I intend to upgrade that
28with an i5-2400 that I got second hand. As for the case, I will try to scourge
29my local second hand market for a case fit to house 4 HDDs.
30
31The only component I won't be using second-hand here are the actual drives.
32I will be purchasing 4x4TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro 7200RPM drives running in either
33RAID 10 or 5/6, if you think this is a poor choice, please let me know in Matrix!
34
35There will be 2 uses for this NAS. The first use is the obvious - backup my own
36files that are hard to come across off my PC and laptop. The second use is for
37creating an incremental backup system for my cernodile.com+based.quest infra.
38I will be doing a writeup on the latter on how I achieve it and the journey to
39have it working.
40
41The rough build date for this project would be either end of 2022 or Q1 2023.
42
43
44## Project SteamBoxReborn
45Ever since I got my Steam Deck earlier this year, I've really started to appreciate
46the hard work that Valve has put into making Linux experience near flawless for
47almost any end-user. I want to bring this experience to a stationary PC machine.
48This is going to be a staple of my living room where it gets attached to a TV.
49
50There is the elephant in the room that prior to this point, building it with
51integrated graphics would have caused very poor experience to the end-user.
52However, thanks to AMD's recent developments on Ryzen platform to enable
53integrated graphics on every single CPU starting from Ryzen 7000 generation -
54this is no longer a concern. The RDNA architecture has proven itself with
55Steam Deck to be very powerful.
56
57There are no concrete specifications on this build yet other than the CPU
58generation and preferred form factor (mATX or lower) and that it has to run
59SteamOS 3.
60
61I will be making a video (and blog) about this build when time is near. For
62now it's just a rough idea that I plan to execute either early 2023 or mid-2023.
63
64
65## Experiment DeckPC
66DeckPC is exactly what it sounds like. Using the Steam Deck as a PC.
67Okay, maybe it is a bit more nuanced on what I am trying to do here than just
68plugging in a dock and calling it a day.
69
70I intend to purchase a KVM switch alongside a dock, so I can switch between my
71actual desktop PC and docked Steam Deck on the same set of peripherals.
72
73While this is really basic, I still want to document my experience for this over
74a longer period of time - for example a month.
75
76I will try to use SteamOS as a regular desktop PC for a month. Sometimes game
77on it if there is no great controller support for a given game. Try do usual
78productivity workloads like browsing the web, using Matrix and such.
79
80This has no timeframe, it's either really soon or really late when I do get
81around to it - but it's something I'm entertaining in my mind still and wanted
82to get the idea out at least.
83
84
85## Further considerations
86Framework please come to Estonia, I want to purchase one and make a review for it.
87My current laptop has caused enough troubles already.
88
89
90## Going forward and the present
91I realize I haven't posted anything in nearly 4 months and as it so happens, the
92last 4 months have been the most hectic in my career development. I have devoted
93a lot of my time to work and getting further in ranks. This has been mainly at cost
94of my spare time and energy. I haven't forgotten about the site and care a lot about
95it still.
96
97I do intend to keep the place alive and do regular housekeeping around it. I am still
98reachable over social platforms and still ready to discuss on many topics.
99
100I can't promise increased activity, but rest assured I am still here for the site and
101journey of based.quest. Special thanks goes to a few of you who have decided to chip in
102generously for hosting costs, I appreciate every last cent of it.
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106
107Thank you for reading,
108- Cernodile