I know AI generated images are old hat now, but this package looks nice for making super specific images - something I’ve found tricky before (although I’ve not really played with anything recently). A while back I wanted to have some very specific images for a web app but struggled to get it just right and then gave up.

Wrote up my last SOTA trip report on the forum. I always enjoy the conversations that follow - typically they’re completely non secateur, and this time is no exception.

The replacement hard drive arrived for the server. Plugged it in, still can’t import zfs pool. Now various things to try and figure it out. smartctl says one drive has had a communications error, which could be a cable but I think it’s only had one error. Then we get into wild commands like sudo zdb -lu /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x50014ee2b8f30293 | nawk '/txg =/{txg=$NF}/timestamp =/{printf "txg %d\t%s\n",txg,$0}' | sort -n -k 2n,2n | uniq | tail -10 to find historical transaction ids of … transactions… to revert back to but nothing happens. I don’t know how long to keep trying.

I have my photos, as they were backed up elsewhere, and maybe there were other things I wanted. Think I had some audiobooks from the library I’d saved, but suppose I can just borrow them again. Maybe other stuff too but I can’t even remember it so do I really need it? I now have Nextcloud on Hetzner backing up photos and docs. Do I even need a server?

I like having an always on linux box for tinkering with… I do have a VPS, so maybe that’s enough? But occasions when I want a minecraft server or some fun new thing on github to play with for a day or two, then a local - and considerably more powerful - server is probably best. However, what should I use?