For work I have to use a Macbook. This is due to reasons I won’t go into in this rantblogpost, but suffice it to say that there’s currently no other option. It’s a Macbook Pro, previously an Intel variety, now it’s one of the Apple Silicon persuation.
I’m a big fan of Home Assistant, and until now I only had it accessible from inside my own network. Outside access was only possible through a WireGuard VPN. This works, but isn’t very practical - definitely when I quickly want to check something, or need to diagnose something while on the road, having to toggle the VPN & hope that the DNS resolution works (which sometimes it doesn’t) - the...
I frequently listen to Off The Hook, a hacker radio show which airs on WBAI in the greater New York region. As I’m in a different continent, listening live is not practical ;)
So a while ago (four months) I migrated from Hetzner to Jotta - it’s been smooth sailing until last month, when I got a bunch of errors thrown at me.
A friend of mine gave me a Dell Perc H310 HBA nearly half a year ago which was flashed to IT-mode, which basically removes all the fancy RAID functionality from the card and turns it into a dumb HBA, just showing all the disks to the operating system. A good guide to flashing Dell Perc cards can be found on https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html.