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