{"id":14996,"date":"2025-01-30T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T00:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=14996"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T00:16:32","slug":"random-short-take-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #101. Happy new year. This one is focussed on technology things around the house. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aaron Parker put together a <a href=\"https:\/\/stealthpuppy.com\/mac-mini-home-server\/\">comprehensive guide outlining his experience with setting up a Mac mini as a home server<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of the Mac mini, Howard Oakley published a <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/01\/11\/a-brief-history-of-the-mac-mini\/\">brief history of the Mac mini<\/a> that made for great reading, particularly if you&#8217;re new to the Mac mini.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, Stephen Foskett put together <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fosketts.net\/2024\/12\/30\/how-to-monitor-linux-server-stats-in-home-assistant\/\">a great article on how to monitor Linux server stats in Home Assistant<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been looking for ways to waste more of my leisure time, and it might be time to get back into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.home-assistant.io\">Home Assistant<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This article from Misty de Meo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mistys-internet.website\/blog\/blog\/2025\/01\/23\/what-you-might-miss-when-backing-up-cds\/\">what you might miss when backing up CDs<\/a> is tremendous.<\/li>\n<li>Want to know <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/setup-minio-s3-object-storage-on-truenas\/\">how to setup MinIO S3 Object Storage on TrueNAS<\/a>? Paolo Valsecchi has you covered.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Wahl <a href=\"https:\/\/wahlnetwork.com\/2025\/01\/14\/my-new-podcast-thoughtfully-critical\/\">has a new podcast available now<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In press release news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/active-archive-alliance-welcomes-magstor-to-the-organization-302354973.html\">MagStor has joined the Active Archive Alliance<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I like records, and Sonic Youth, so I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/digs\/collecting\/vinylogue-thurston-moore\/\">this article on Discogs<\/a> interesting. Although I can say I don&#8217;t have quite the same relationship with records that Thurston Moore does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #101. Happy new year. This one is focussed on technology things around the house. Let&#8217;s get random. Aaron Parker put together a comprehensive guide outlining his experience with setting up a Mac mini as a home server. Speaking of the Mac mini, Howard Oakley published a brief history of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,135,1262,5],"tags":[1450,801,975,1447,517,1446,1445,1449,791,1448],"class_list":["post-14996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-computers","category-minio","category-storage","tag-active-archive-alliance","tag-apple","tag-archive","tag-cd","tag-home","tag-home-assistant","tag-mac-mini","tag-magstor","tag-music","tag-sonic-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14997,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions\/14997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}