Notes for October 12-17

Had a fairly slow start to the week, then a progressively intense ramp-up that I tempered by way of a couple of strategically timed outings and a little time on my own projects. I also spent quite a bit of time playing with the FM-1, although I’m having trouble finding the right kind of inspiration. And all sorts of stuff keeps breaking… I’m Done With Time Machine on Synology Time Machine broke again, mysteriously, on Golden Gate, and for some reason only my MacBook Pro was affected. Completely fed up with this, I just went and did what I had previously threatened: brought up a Samba Time Machine container (using mbentley/timemachine) in an unprivileged Debian LXC on tnas, backed by a bind mount from ZFS. That entailed a bit of UID/GID finagling, and I must say I’m happy I don’t have to do it by hand myself again–took all of two minutes for piclaw to set everything up after I pointed it to my earlier post, and the LXC setup looks like this: # lxc.conf arch: amd64 cores: 2 features:…