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Don’t run hardware until the end of time!

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Hardware won’t live until the end of time

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Hardware has a finite amount of time that it will stay working. It varies from component to component but still, in the end it will die.

A CPU or RAM stick, when cooled properly and running 24/7 can probably last you between 10 and 20 years without a problem.

But something like a fan or harddisk (HDD) that has spinning motors, those will have a much more finite lifespan. In my person opinion and experience, it can be expected to last at least 5 years but beyond that wear and tear is going to start taking more and more of a toll. Disks will start to fail more and more often but there is also the energy usage factor to consider, let’s dive into that!

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Davinci Resolve Speed Editor not functioning (2024)

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Davinci Resolve Speed Editor stops working

I’ve been using Davinci Resolve since 2022 when I switched from Vegas Pro 19 (crashing mess, can’t handle 4K with a few timelines) to Davinci Resolve. I’ve been quite happy with Resolve, it’s quick to use and has lots of functions (of which I don’t use nearly any at all).

I get my Davinci Resolve license by buying a Speed Editor, a little extra keyboard with a job dial on there which makes editing in Davinci a whole lot easier and quicker (even though I don’t use the cutting view and just the timeline view).

It’s a great little keyboard for a great price, but it really sucks when it stops working!

The Davinci Speed Editor keyboard

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DIY Cloud backup 2022 update

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Update to the DIY Cloud backup project
2022 update!

In 2017 I built a DIY cloud backup solution (which you can find documented here). This has been running every since but somewhere end of 2021 I decided the used hardware could use a little update.

I’ve been trying to do a video series of basically a re-imagining of the project but I’m having a hard time following it through!

With this post video part 4 (and 5) are going to be released and we are finally heading towards the end of the project!

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Lots of External HDD on a single Power Supply

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Sometimes you accumulate a lot of equipment in one spot that all runs on 12v. This can for instance be a rack with multiple switches and routers or, as in my case, 15 External Hard Drives, a USB HUB and some fans that all need 12v. To cut down on the clutter, let’s take out the 18 Adapters to run this and replace them with a single power supply.

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Chia farming info post

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I’ve recently started farming Chia using a lot of harddisk space. To me it’s the ultimate system administrators crypto coin since it doesn’t use GPUs and there is a lot involved getting it to run quickly and correctly! This post will serve as an accompanying posts to my videos about the subject.

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4$ Xiaomi Temperature Sensor for Home Assistant

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This article is a kind of follow-up on the one I did originally in 2019. ESPhome has improved a lot over time and now there are these 4$ Xiaomi temperature and humidity sensors that can be hacked and then work in the same way. The absolute best way to get per room temperature sensing into Home Assistant in my opinion!

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IP camera ethernet water damage, how to repair

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As some of you know, I have some IP cameras in my backyard. One of them went offline recently and didn’t come back online. Upon inspecting the connection point between the camera ethernet connector and the patch cable had completely fried because of water damage. Can this Dahua camera still be revived? Let’s replace the ethernet connector and see if it still works!

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Home Assistant: Automated Bathroom Ventilation

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Even since we’ve lived in our new house I have wanted to create a sort of “automatic” bathroom ventilation. Our central ventilation box has a feature that can be used for that but we needed hooked it up. But, combining two of my recent Home Assistant videos it’s actually quite easy now, let’s build it and throw some Node-Red into the mix too! 😀

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