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 (

Floatplane

Floatplane is a streaming platform offering exclusive creator-driven shows, tech reviews, and tutorials with high-quality, ad-free viewing on all y...

). Here's more on why—and a sort-of celebration of 500 videos over 18 years on my YouTube channel:

The power company cut power for 4 hours last night — how did NUT on my Pi work out? A Level2Jeff special:

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?

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

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:

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