Greetings, fam!
Just a quick update that I am still kicking about...
I fully intend to start growing again soon, but for now it just is not in the cards. I have enough green dragon to subdue a small army, so in a sense I don't really NEED to grow, which is actually a really cool thing the way things are these days.
While I cannot do any gardening work, in it's stead I am back to one of the few other things I am fairly competent at... Customizing and engineering PCs...
Recently, my windows PC fell over. I had to re-purpose my lab machine for use to support my day job. It runs Linux, and specifically MINT 21.3...
Been futzing with it for a few weeks now, and it is pretty livable. In fact, if I am being honest I do not miss windows at all.
Behold:
If you're curios, the gauges on the right are, from top to bottom, 1 TB m.2 boot drive, 10 TB RAID, 1 TB SSD shared with the Windows install for when I have no choice but to use that. At the very bottom is the system RAM.
You might notice an emphasis on AI, but a not-so-good GPU to do the work. I have been having a lot of fun using locally hosted AI stuff. Could do without some tech company spying on what I am doing. I am replacing the current video card soon, if for no other reason one of it's cooling fans literally fell off and is resting on the power supply at the bottom of the case... When I can spare the bread, I am going to get a pretty decent replacement.
In the insanely rare chance that someone wants to turn a MINT 21.3 PC into a very potent local AI toolchest, I have a script that will build it from scratch from a fresh install...
Forgive me the geek-out rant... Had to share this stuff with someone!
Peace