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I have been using Backblaze B2 Storage for fifteen days. In the beginning, the data was not stable. I changed the settings multiple times. The Backblaze backend reporting is kind of delayed or 48 hours round. Today, I will recheck...
Almost every three months, I will try to upgrade the device firmware. Here are the simple records for today’s updates. Upgrade the TP-Link Switch. The latest one is v1.0.13. After the upgrade, it will reboot automatically. It is a...
I received an email from ICBC. It is a great reminder for the drivers in BC. It also provides some important facts here. 32% of crashes happend in parking lots. Holiday shopping season is here! While it’s always important to...
When I post the Mastodon Self-hosting – Clean Media Storage with tootctl command, I forget to record how I prepare the environment. Before I run the tootctl command, I did the following. I checked the version of tootctl.
In the last post, I mentioned that my Gitlab CE space was used very fast. In 4 months, I have to expand the disk space again. The folder /var/opt/gitlab/prometheus/data/wal is more than 85GB. There are so many files in the...
It is the second time I have expanded the disk on Proxmox VE. I have a post about how to expand the VM disk in Proxmox VE. The host is Proxmox VE v8.1.3. The guest is a Gitlab on Ubuntu...
Set up Backblaze B2 storage with existing Mastodon. Here is for my record, not as a guide or reference. If you follow it on your Mastodon instance, take a risk. I use the Backblaze B2 storage after a few days...
The title tells the main purpose of this post. I want to know exactly how much space I took on Backblaze B2 storage. I have one bucket named x-media on it. Sign in to the Backblaze and see the dashboard....
Check the current situation. There are 1.5GB of header images. none of which are from local accounts except 85.5KB which is my account header on the server. For Avatars, it is 768.8 MB, only 18.8KB is from my instance. ...
Here is the simple way to upgrade the old 250GB NVMe M.2 SSD to a new 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD on my desktop PC. The problem is that only one M.2 slot on the Motherboard, ASUS Prime B450M-A II. Before...
Recently, I bought a new NVMe M.2 SSD, Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB on Newegg.ca. I ordered it on Nov. 16. The price is good at $69.97. They put a small label, “black friday price protection”. So, I believe it...
It is v7.0 now. Calibre is the only eBook management tool I am using for many years. Yesterday, I upgraded my installation to the lastest version 7.0. Let me have a look at the new features. Category notes You can...
I followed the instruction on my old post to disable IPv6 on my Ubuntu 22.04 box. But it is not enough to make it permanently. Every time I reboot the machine, the IPv6 comes again. Here is the solution...
I have a Awow AK34 mini PC. It is used as a router for a few years. It has a problem. It may lost respons after a few month, or every month. All the devices no matter wired or wireless...
I have Webmin installed on my VPS as the web panel. Recently, I saw the update error in the Terminal window. I did the search. Run the following commands in the command. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/webmin/webmin/master/setup-repos.sh sh setup-repos.sh Then, there is no...