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 :)

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:

Don't make me connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud. Full video here:

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.

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 :(

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: