Ping Check

Yes, we are still alive. My last post was over 3 months ago. It’s the longest break I’ve ever had between posting anything. I’ve been really busy, and perhaps also really absorbed in many other projects, so this blog hasn’t gotten as much of my attention. I still have many things to write and share about. Too much, actually, but they are such a mess that I haven’t been able to come up with something coherent to write about. So, instead, I’ll just rant about a couple of random things in this post. My last post was about my home lab developments. There’ve been more developments along the same front since. It’s funny that as a techie, you’d expect that I would already have deployed or at least played around with the recent things I just got around to work on. However, I hadn’t considered them terribly fascinating before, and maybe still so, and hence didn’t have much interest in them. For example, many home labs include Plex or Jellyfin. I have Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, so neither…