content/posts/future-personal-plans-2022-08.md

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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"]
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  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.
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 107 Thank you for reading,
 108 - Cernodile