Field Notes

Occasional write-ups on home lab hardware and small network builds.

Recent

• Replacing thermal paste on a fanless mini PC — before and after temperatures
• Measuring idle draw of a four-disk enclosure with a cheap inline meter
• Notes on cable management in a shallow wall-mount rack
• Why the second NIC kept renaming itself after every kernel update

Longer pieces

• A year of uptime logs, and what they actually told me
• Picking a UPS when the runtime numbers all disagree