Just a note that Michigan football was looking like they are back to rebuilding. But it may not take that long after all having defeated Ohio State and Alabama, both two years in a row. And it looks like the Detroit Lions will will make a run to the Super bowl again. Hopefully it will be their year.

Network Chuck made a video about the neat things you can do with Docker containers and one of those he listed was running client software from an organization called “Folding@Home”, or “Folding at Home”. “Folding” refers to running simulations of proteins in the research of Alzheimer’s, several types of Cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, just to name a small few. Labs from all over the country (world?) have a great need for computing power for their simulations.

I’m really liking Proxmox. A Type 1 Hypervisor installed on a Beelink mini-pc (Ryzen 9; 32GB DDR5 RAM; 1TB on an M.2). The 32 Gigs of RAM is going to be upgraded to 96GB this week. First thing I installed was Debian 12 desktop because, well, just because. I think all home labs need Debian 12 installed somewhere. I also created a VM running Linux Mint 22, the latest version that just came out.

Again, it’s been a while since my last post. This time I got my site certificate without a hitch. Before that, I moved my site off the Raspberry PI that was hosting it to a Linode cloud server. The difference is that it now has a real static IP address, whereas the PI needed port forwarding since we don’t have a business Comcast account. It cost only $5 a month and I get 1 CPU core, 1GB of RAM, and 25GB of storage - sweet.