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pixie.town started with a full borgmatic system backup

The migration will be happening tomorrow, starting around 11:00 UTC

services will stay online during most of the migration, but expect performance to be affected (main reason for this migration was existing IO bottlenecks)

During the postgres move at the end of the migration, Synapse and Mastodon will both be down. moving around 33Gb of data from hdd to ssd

then a reboot to make sure everything is reboot-proof. If everything goes well actual downtime should be very limited

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getting as much people as possible to sanity-check my homeserver's upcoming disk-migration, feedback welcome:
pad.lamyne.org/0dmtUmSxSMqJUNg

@brainblasted there's definitely people that don't know better, but recommending to use they/them instead is indeed a great way to find out

@eloisa
It's a bit slow in development currently, but a long running project of mine is working on a better Matrix (web)client, more akin to Telegram/Discord in UI

neo.pixie.town

some other things include pixie.town where I run a bunch of free services, and tilde.industries where I make and sell electronics with friends of mine

tfw you change your avatar and dissociate with the messages you just sent because you don't quite recognize the icon as 'you' yet

qemu++

after being reminded I should enable kvm (oops) it all works really well. Can now set up Debian unstable, and experiment with a disk setup similar to my homeserver, to figure out how to mess with the RAID's etc

lol whythefuckwasibreached.com/
"Did you just lose 100m customer SSNs because your root password was "password", you set an S3 bucket to public or you didn't patch a well known vulnerability for 8 months? Is the media and government chewing you out because of it? Worry not! Our free excuse generator will help you develop an air-tight breach statement in no time!"

@amolith@masto.nixnet.xyz the tamafoxi is a project of mine to make a tamagotchi like thing, and also my intro into pcb design.
I made a prototype a few weeks ago: pixie.garden/~/Thingies/tamafo

For the LiPo module I just paid 16 euros for 75 pcb's, and another 16 for enough parts to assemble 20 (the IC's and connectors make up the bulk of the cost)

If the module works I'll have to work out how long it takes me to assemble one

I still need to figure out how long this will take, switching around data and RAID setups, expect a maintenance window announcement soon(tm)

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(I got the Debian one a while ago, it was made in the same way but by someone else)

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btw I use Arch :P

Hackerspace got a new Vinylcutter, so I made these dual-color Arch stickers that turned out suuper well

@amolith@masto.nixnet.xyz
It's a LiPo charging module, similar to these cheap ones on ali: aliexpress.com/item/4000061318

I wanted to have a smaller board as my first pcb design, so thought this would be nice as this circuit will also be part of my larger tamafoxi pcb.

5v in either through USB-C or the pins at the top
charges the lipo connected with the JST-PH connector

two ic's at the bottom are for over-current and over-discharge sensing, which will cut off the battery gnd if detected

left middle pins are for sensing the voltage at the ESP/arduino side, thru the voltage divider to bring it down to 3.3v, right middle pin can be used with a pull-up to detect if the chip is in charging state. Those are features the ali modules don't have

if anyone would like to critique my very first PCB design:
silkscreen is a mess I'll fix later but all the components/copper should be done:
github.com/f0x52/LiPo-module

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