Jeff Geerling

Father, author, developer, maker. Sometimes called "an inflammatory enigma". #stl #ansible #k8s #raspberrypi #crohns #ostomy

Website: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/about
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/JeffGeerling
GitHub: http://github.com/geerlingguy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/geerlingguy

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2026-04-18 21:28:41 UTC

And then there were two! More Xserves, that is. I'll be adding these Xserve1,1 Xeons to the G5 in the rack soon.
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2026-04-15 06:24:08 UTC

Oops, posted early, to the benefit of EU viewers! Testing the new Arm mainboard for Framework 13: https://youtu.be/CIb87SJ4xwo?si=lVb5Rqxw5JXl1WBD

2026-04-15 01:08:42 UTC

You don't need to pirate if you want to own your media and self-host Jellyfin #homelab
Here's my guide: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/how-i-rip-dvds-and-blu-rays-my-mac-2022-edition/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/406/045/360/233/554/original/98036eddd099d458.mp4

2026-04-13 14:39:54 UTC

We're not even 30 minutes into the week, and I've already released the magic smoke 🤦‍♂️
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2026-03-31 04:44:59 UTC

Another day, another supply chain attack, this time Axios: https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/10604
Makes me glad I'm lazy and intentional about dependency updates. But it's a worrying trend. Soon we'll be tracking these things by the hour.

2026-03-29 13:54:08 UTC

Insanity level: ✅ just right
Coreforge is at it again, repurposing an old AMD B350 motherboard (sans CPU) as a Raspberry Pi PCIe breakout board: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/issues/809
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2026-03-24 14:45:29 UTC

There's never been a better time to build your own router—a practice which the FCC will hopefully not *also* ban for US #homelab consumers :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04oL0qVSWJE

2026-03-20 14:02:07 UTC

What's the best laptop Apple ever made? For me, the 11" Air. Let me know, then also hear what @npub1mn6…vg25, @npub1yh6…0a7w, @npub1d9x…m0v2, Computer Clan, @npub1lsg…7m6c, and @npub1l7s…w3y0 had to say this #MARCHintosh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpPIrmZB828
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2026-03-19 01:01:48 UTC

Big, bigger... smallest? Working on another #MARCHintosh project. Coming Friday :)
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2026-03-18 13:43:51 UTC

I'm glad I got to enjoy gaming in the era before you needed a $7,000 rig to redraw frames and generate slop frames to hit 62 fps in a AAA game.

2026-03-18 01:25:08 UTC

TFW you go to do a thing, then that thing turns into another project, which leads to another project... time to fix up this old broadcast monitor!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/247/566/960/555/477/original/d66f407ab8ad562c.jpeg

2026-03-13 21:40:54 UTC

Uh TrueNAS is this true? https://linuxiac.com/truenas-moves-build-system-internal/

2026-03-12 01:02:07 UTC

I liked this era of Mac OS X
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2026-03-03 16:53:20 UTC

macOS Tahoe is still full of annoyances like this: a notification inside *System Preferences* that cannot be gotten rid of, and it causes the list to look janky, with weird spacing for the list item and a misaligned "2".
I'd be happy with Classic or Aqua over 'Glass'
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2026-03-02 21:23:10 UTC

Kicking off #MARCHintosh with the smallest Mac ever: the Pico Micro Mac!
Check out the video on Level 2 Jeff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gOS22wEpmU
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2026-02-13 00:31:46 UTC

Prepping for #Marchintosh...
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2026-02-12 20:54:19 UTC

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Oh. haha... now I see it. I think my brain was just not equating a bending thing like that with "pencil", since pencils, by their very nature, do not bend.

2026-02-12 20:47:41 UTC

Why does every clipart illustration Google use look so... weird.
Like this one for "No content available" in YouTube Studio looks like a cigarette sitting up against a flower
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2026-02-02 14:21:23 UTC

Raspberry Pi is getting more expensive again—price hikes add on up to $60 to the price tag of a high-spec Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
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2026-01-19 02:44:03 UTC

Just ordered 16 GB of RAM for $44
Feels like I won the lottery.
Only catch? It's DDR2 ECC.

2026-01-15 04:16:12 UTC

Hosting websites was so much easier back when I didn't have to consider AI scrapers, malicious actors, etc.
It was more fun getting /.'ed and seeing things fall over than having to be able to handle a terabit of traffic in a sudden deluge multiple times a month.

2026-01-14 16:41:01 UTC

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Sheesh, following random links in different threads, I've seen conversations on Mastodon (a number of instances), Bluesky, Twitter(X), a Teensy forum post, HN...
It's honestly hard to follow and the context makes little sense still.

2026-01-14 15:23:56 UTC

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and here's a response from Adafruit with more context: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/12/discontinuing-the-teensy-at-adafruit/
The story is ongoing, of course. What an odd turn of events.

2026-01-14 14:54:32 UTC

Today Sparkfun is dropping @npub1yd7…s0k2 over CoC violations, and what timeline even is this? https://www.sparkfun.com/official-response

2026-01-13 14:56:21 UTC

Apple just announced a subscription plan for their pro apps...
AND they still allow you to buy the full version, with a perpetual license??? What madness, maybe other companies could take note. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/introducing-apple-creator-studio-an-inspiring-collection-of-creative-apps/

2025-12-20 20:32:47 UTC

Now's a good time to mention this neat little box I've been helping with...
It's not yet ready for prime time, but we have GPS, PPS, and NTP, working on SyncE
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/753/796/147/374/776/original/944424163bcd2094.jpeg

2025-12-20 15:02:57 UTC

2 GPUs 1 Pi
What I found surprised me. This isn't as insane as you think it is...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8X2Y62JGDCo
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2025-12-20 14:23:33 UTC

A good time to ensure you have a stable holdover clock, and a way to switch NTP servers in case the one you rely on is down.
But this is rough, losing power to the clocks that make time for US services... https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/o0dDDcr1a8I

2025-12-20 03:12:00 UTC

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YouTube is such a wide bucket, you'll find all walks of life there.
Just like fedi, which is why I enjoy being here. Only platform that doesn't feed algorithm slop by default, which is a rare treat. Real people and real conversation.

2025-12-11 22:08:11 UTC

Now that Nvidia GPUs run on the Raspberry Pi, I want to see if they're good for Jellyfin transcoding (e.g. take your old 3060 and throw it on a Pi for a little #homelab media server...). https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/benchmarking-nvenc-video-transcoding-on-pi
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2025-12-04 18:44:56 UTC

The RAM shortage comes for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rbz0akyLyQ
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2025-12-01 14:13:17 UTC

Raspberry Pi prices back on the rise due to AI companies driving up DRAM prices.
One more domino to fall to the AI bubble inflation pressures: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/1gb-raspberry-pi-5-now-available-at-45-and-memory-driven-price-rises/

2025-11-26 17:00:14 UTC

It comforts me to know whether you're a 1-2 person scrappy small startup or literally the world's most valuable company, your user guides will cover only the basics and when end users test your hardware, they'll have the same reaction:
_Why do the marketing numbers lie?_
(Except the better scrappy startups don't have a marketing budget, so their numbers don't lie, they just don't exist yet ;)

2025-11-25 02:48:03 UTC

Woah. AmpereOne A192-32X (fastest Arm CPU available to normal humans) is available in motherboard bundle from NewEgg for $4799: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813140167
Annoyingly, populating all those DDR5 RAM slots is gonna be pricey.

2025-11-18 13:42:34 UTC

Judging by how many #itwasdns shirts I've sold this morning...
Is the Cloudflare outage DNS-related too? https://www.redshirtjeff.com/shop/p/it-was-dns-shirt
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2025-11-13 15:04:11 UTC

All Intel Arc GPUs run on the Raspberry Pi now (including the Arc Pro B50, pictured below). See how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewDJpxQEGo4
(The same 4-line change to the Linux kernel enables the cards on RISC-V and many other Arm systems, too!).
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2025-10-29 21:55:20 UTC

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Woo! Okay... now back to finishing up my Arduino Uno Q video :)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/459/680/464/694/657/original/46b218a9610f82ec.mp4

2025-10-29 19:49:03 UTC

Is today the day? Might hit 1 million subscribers, thanks to all those who watch my YouTube channel!
One thing's for sure, my 'It was DNS' shirt is selling well with all the outages... Hang out with me on what might be my last 2025 livestream!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27J-wwgZydE

2025-10-28 00:52:53 UTC

It's an interesting board. A weird hybrid.
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2025-10-21 02:05:58 UTC

Raise your hand if you ever inadvertently caused a 2+ hour outage (which was impossible to fix in a deterministic manner) due to DNS misconfiguration. #itwasdns
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2025-10-20 09:48:10 UTC

AWS Outage #itwasdns
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2025-10-16 14:27:37 UTC

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Two quick highlights from the show: a completely open source CRT (https://github.com/tdaede/td-crt), and @yyzkevin's RP2040-powered PCMCIA card (https://www.yyzkevin.ca/pico-pcmcia/)
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2025-10-16 14:07:00 UTC

At @npub14uc…amv8 I found:
- ESP32 Lisa hard drive emulator
- RP2040 powering iMac display replacement boards
- Wisblock chip powering LoRa radio for Commodore 64
- Pi Zero C64 drive emulator
- Pi Pico voltage board for AMRAY SEM
- Pis running various exhibits...
I've just posted a video that *tries* to document the overwhelming nature of the event (overwhelming in a good way, of course).
And I only covered like 1/3 of the show floor!
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF0NKvmQmVA
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2025-10-15 01:55:36 UTC

Kind of amazed this just worked.
Old PowerBook putting the "Universal" in USB
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2025-10-09 15:33:05 UTC

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it's got its warts, but it gets the job done.
I do wish someone besides Arch maintained a solid wiki with all the little minutiae for things like hardware and driver issues. But at least the Arch solutions usually apply on Debian as well.

2025-10-07 03:52:41 UTC

I wonder if Microsoft secretly wants everyone to switch to Linux. There are certainly fewer reasons to stick to Windows every day: https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes

2025-10-02 18:34:36 UTC

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it would be neat to make it so other YT creators could follow in the path if they wanted, without too crazy an effort. Or cost!

2025-10-02 01:54:02 UTC

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do you have a writeup or video about your PeerTube setup?
I'm in early stages of looking into it...

2025-09-30 04:30:26 UTC

If the size of the current AI bubble can be estimated by how many
- AI job offers
- AI product review offers
- AI service paid sponsorship offers
- AI creator representation offers
I receive per day... then I'd say we're nearing the pop.

2025-09-25 07:08:15 UTC

Raspberry Pi just announced the Pi 500+
It has a quad-core CPU, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD (built-in NVMe), and an RGB backlit mechanical keyboard (Gateron KS-33 blue switches).
Cost: $200.
First thing I did was yank the SSD out and replace it with an M.2 to OCuLink adapter, so I could game and local-LLM on the thing, using an AMD RX 7900 XT with 20 GB of GDDR6 VRAM.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/263/671/682/846/079/original/a6432868f26a9459.jpeg

2025-09-16 16:45:11 UTC

If you use an adblocker on YouTube, please click 'like' on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kDGWrm9P-U
I'm trying a small test on 2nd channel, want to see impact from a large desktop audience, as I've seen a 30-50% decline in views (without a drop in other metrics).

2025-09-07 17:54:19 UTC

YouTube views are down (don't panic).
Some data-backed analysis of the current downturn in views for many channels (especially in tech?), thanks especially to @BuhDan from LTT for help! https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/youtube-views-are-down-dont-panic
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2025-08-30 22:32:54 UTC

I'm preaching to the choir here, and it will never make YouTube change, but can I just say how much I *despise* a shorts carousel now being the top spot of my Subscriptions feed in the YouTube app—and it can't be disabled, even if I tap the dots and say 'don't show this'?

2025-08-20 00:51:05 UTC

Spotted some server fans on the ol' Millennium Falcon. Lots of random plumbing parts too! Love full-scale kitbashing
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2025-08-12 16:51:23 UTC

clippy appreciation post

2025-07-28 02:41:59 UTC

Hey look, I found the save icon! 💾
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2025-07-27 22:47:50 UTC

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though even just using your own tooling with a rough edit pass (I use MacWhisper) is already infinitely better than no captions (relying on Google!).
Any incremental improvement beyond adds more value. Whisper's gotten quite good now.

2025-07-11 14:03:43 UTC

You can DIY upgrade the M4 Pro Mac mini's internal SSD to 4TB—for almost half Apple's upgrade pricing (but still 3x what normal M.2 NVMe SSDs cost 🙄)
How does that compare to external Thunderbolt 5 storage? A video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqmPjO-iHLo

2025-07-05 18:12:11 UTC

Do not let perfect be the enemy of good.

2025-07-03 21:02:08 UTC

We should have mandatory Internet outage times every month, like Tornado drills but for exposing bad IoT devices and software phoning home.

2025-06-22 00:23:28 UTC

Seeing reports that Iran has an Internet blackout, and possibly US or other countries are jamming GPS...
Turns some of my own interest in mesh networks, radio, P2P self-hosted stuff, and anti-jamming PNT solutions a little less academic :/

2025-06-20 21:37:27 UTC

That can't be good...
Help me find the source of the mysterious ticking noise! https://github.com/geerlingguy/retro-computers/issues/15
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2025-06-16 21:50:36 UTC

I don't know how many more rabbit holes I can go down, but I'm about to become a retro Mac 'Tuber lol
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2025-06-06 21:49:15 UTC

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Update: YouTube has just reinstated the video, after what I presume is a human review process. I wish it didn't take making noise on socials to get past the 'AI deny' process :(
Go forth, and self-host all the things! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hFas54xFtg

2025-06-06 04:21:56 UTC

Self hosting your own media considered harmful (according to YouTube...). https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful

2025-06-05 19:04:33 UTC

Oh we're gonna do this again YouTube?
Self-hosting your own media content on a Raspberry Pi is not "dangerous or harmful".
I'm appealing of course; they're saying installing LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi circumvents copyright?!
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2025-06-03 18:50:02 UTC

Look what showed up on the desk... Sipeed NanoCluster. What would you like to know?
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2025-06-02 17:28:51 UTC

Your eyes are not fast enough to see this clock—quick Level 2 Jeff video on mitxela's Precision Clock Mk IV, because it's the coolest clock I own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBDgD032DEI

2025-05-31 23:06:30 UTC

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No, like most AI stuff it's always cheerfully optimistic, and won't add responses to anything with negative sentiment

2025-05-31 20:32:14 UTC

What I wanted YouTube to do with AI: make it so I don't have to delete 50 obvious spam comments on all my videos.
What I didn't want: suggest replies to spam comments that further clutter admin UIs
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2025-05-20 18:10:28 UTC

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The other annoying part of all this is I write a ton of technical content ("training data" to AI people) that will never get seen anymore, just summarized and regurgitated in a much worse form by all these modern AI tools.
I learned so much from technical blogs in the past, and I still have my ways of finding that content... but I fear many people not already in our communities (or with parents/mentors who are in them) will not have the tools to know where to look!

2025-05-20 16:35:21 UTC

The thing I hate most about AI, in the current era:
Google, DDG, Bing, etc. are all now effectively worthless on the first 2-3 pages, for most of my queries having to do with *anything* general.
Even specific queries like 'smart outlet energy consumption card HA'.
The problem is AI slop; there are thousands of websites (even some old venerable sites that were sold off) that just have "that exact query as a web page", but the results are AI generated, and have no helpful information inside.

2025-04-30 04:35:25 UTC

So it begins... Bambu Lab's latest X1C firmware no longer works with OrcaSlicer. See: https://github.com/bambulab/BambuStudio/issues/6726
Best solution for current X1C owners: don't upgrade your firmware.

2025-04-29 03:28:44 UTC

Apple sadly has no support for PPS, TGPIO, or any other 'fun' timing-related functionality on macOS / Mac hardware :(
Maybe I can hack into an Apple Watch Ultra and get at it's L1/L5 GNSS module. It surely has PPS inside?

2025-04-28 15:39:58 UTC

Finally had time to watch Pewdiepie's "I installed Linux" video.
Don't know what I was expecting... but *wasn't* expecting a great list of reasons why, in 2025, you should stop using Windows and install Linux—he even mentions how to use systemd-analyze!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0

2025-04-25 03:09:44 UTC

I've been playing with some very expensive/accurate (down to single-ns-level) GPS receivers lately.
But I wanted to see how a cheap ($10) USB receiver would fare... and it's easy enough to just connect to it from my Mac! Blog post with the details: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/trying-out-cheap-usb-vk-172-gps-dongle-on-mac
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2025-04-22 02:42:23 UTC

👆Touch display for a mini rack. I set it up with my pi-kiosk configuration on a Raspberry Pi (https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-kiosk), and I can control and monitor the whole studio through Home Assistant.
Should I do a quick video on it?
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2025-04-07 02:28:59 UTC

I found, by far, the coolest bit of tech on the show floor at #NABShow. It was tucked away in an obscure corner of the West Hall. Nobody looking at it except for me and one or two other nerds...
Anyone know what this is? I'll be talking about it more later this year :)
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2025-03-30 14:02:03 UTC

Delete! Delete! Delete! The FCC asked what regulations should be deleted from its books. Is it good for broadcast radio? Bad for hams? What would we delete?
My Dad and I discussed it over on Geerling Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCd-vplPVDI

2025-03-24 17:10:16 UTC

Don't make me connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud.
Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M_hmwBBPnc
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2025-03-24 05:12:47 UTC

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For illustrative purposes, re: Bosch requiring WiFi connection + app to use certain features like rinse or eco mode.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/215/692/147/085/321/original/b240142cf92d88c8.jpeg

2025-03-24 04:56:51 UTC

My old GE dishwasher broke (completely dead, tried many ways to reset, was dying for months though...).
Bought a new Bosch 500 (highest not-zillion-dollar model I could get over weekend).
Installed, went to mess with some settings, then saw:
"this setting requires the HomeConnect app"
Oh. Okay, so like Bluetooth or NFC or something?
Nope. They want me to connect my _dishwasher_ to WiFi to configure a number of settings on it! Ugh. No way, no how.

2025-03-19 02:09:18 UTC

Seriously, YouTube??
I purposely leave off mid-rolls for first few days to reward viewers who watch within first push for a video. (And only add one per 10 min after—YouTube adds more)
This means I'll have to do more work to give viewers a slightly-better viewing experience :(
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2025-03-07 15:06:41 UTC

YouTube's been great... but it also scares me.
As a kind of 'RAID 1' for my video content, I'm also on Floatplane now (http://floatplane.com/channel/JeffGeerling).
Here's more on why—and a sort-of celebration of 500 videos over 18 years on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0jw_Q23NIU

2025-03-04 19:05:24 UTC

The power company cut power for 4 hours last night — how did NUT on my Pi work out? A Level2Jeff special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fqPcee2Dzs

2025-03-03 15:03:19 UTC

The high-end 16 GB Pi 5 (plus accessories) is $208. A faster Tiny PC with an Intel N150 and 16 GB of RAM is $159.
When did Raspberry Pis get so expensive? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TORg5FhKf-4
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2025-02-27 23:11:00 UTC

IBM completed it's acquisition of HashiCorp.
I wonder if they want to finally merge Terraform and Ansible.
That would be a Terrible idea.

2025-02-24 16:01:40 UTC

It's time to protect my servers with NUT on my Pi!
The power company said they'll cut power this week for a transformer swap... so UPS monitoring moved up to the top of my priority list, resulting in today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFnItLSRpLI

2025-02-23 23:16:40 UTC

Finally might make VCF Midwest this year, barring any health issues (knock on wood).

2025-02-21 15:15:00 UTC

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Watch the full video on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1565YYsFmd4

2025-02-21 15:14:42 UTC

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Finally, I tested a more modern AMD GPU (RX 6700 XT) on the board, though the little Flex ATX PSU was probably not all that happy I was adapting it's CPU 8 pin connector into 2x PCI 8 pins.
Though this setup was not even _close_ to overheating and catching fire, unlike Nvidia ;)
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2025-02-21 15:14:15 UTC

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Emulating a AAA game from Windows—from 10 years ago—is also possible thanks to Box64/Box32 and Wine + DXVK. Here's The Witcher 3 running.
(More like... 'slideshow-ing', lol)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/042/524/903/306/405/original/432548030e821eea.mp4

2025-02-21 15:13:36 UTC

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In some excellent news, PCIe is well-supported (though still not perfect). Many AMD GPUs work out of the box, and I was able to run SuperTuxKart (a native Linux OpenGL game) using the DINK graphics backend, to get 50 fps on high settings.
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2025-02-21 15:13:09 UTC

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Performance is... well... you have to grade RISC-V on a sliding scale, as the architecture is still in its (relative) infancy.
All my benchmarks, test data, notes, etc. are linked through my blog post: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/sifives-hifive-premier-p550-strange-powerful-risc-v-board
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2025-02-21 15:12:40 UTC

In today's video I test the SiFive HiFive Premier P550, the fastest RISC-V development board I've used.
ESWIN made a special case for this Mini-DTX board (like Mini ITX but a slight bit wider), and the board already has tons of the hardware working in Ubuntu, Debian, & Fedora
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2025-02-18 21:52:25 UTC

I'm working on Intel Arc GPU support on Raspberry Pi — to do that, I recompile the Linux kernel (sometimes multiple times per day!)
I finally made a video showing how *I* recompile Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZxgZZu_NEA

2025-02-13 16:49:00 UTC

https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/
Sad to see this, burnout is a scourge on almost all worthwhile software projects, and especially in open source.
This is why I have no shame in saying no as a default: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/just-say-no

2025-02-12 23:59:09 UTC

I got The Witcher 3 running on RISC-V Linux... just don't look too closely at the fps!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/993/627/982/162/309/original/73f4f04b5856f989.jpg

2025-02-11 21:41:22 UTC

Build Box64 with Box32 for X86 emulation on RISC-V Linux https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/build-box64-box32-x86-emulation-on-risc-v-linux

2025-02-11 15:01:33 UTC

Two new AMD-powered NASes arrived; features like ECC RAM and a fully-upgradable CPU and Mini ITX motherboard are here.
In today's video I take a closer look at the 45Drives 45Homelab HL4, and the ASUSTOR Lockerstor 6 Gen 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etayojgChDM
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