Late Again, with a dead NAS

This week was another lazy one, Keeping it chill and not really getting up too much. I managed to slot one run in this week. Where my partner and I did 3.5km @ 6:50 pace - I definitely struggled with my stamina on this one having to stop for a quick 30s breather every Km. But I did it, so that was good!

Otherwise, the main big thing that happened this week was a disk dying in my NAS RaidZ1 array! Completely out of nowhere, the controller board died & it refuses to do really anything. I ordered 2x replacement drives straight away, 1 to drop in and the other to keep as a cold spare from Server Part Deals and ended up paying almost 2-3x what I paid late 2024! CRAZY! I've currently got the NAS powered off while I wait for the replacement drive (that should hopefully come today), I don't want to risk complete data loss. I did run a few final backups of things before shutting it all down, and it did highlight some things that I didn't have automatically backing up correctly which was nice.

I migrated my ATProto PDS to my VPS so I could continue to use bsky with the NAS down and spent ages fiddling with what I thought was file corruption, when it was instead actually just the remote encryption I set up ... glad to know that all works!

Socially I had some friends over for a dinner and to hang out, we watched some YouTube mostly since my NAS was dead, but we did spend a HEAP of time browsing neocities and nekoweb for other peoples personal webpages. SOOOO much sauce on some of those sites, and we came up with a cool list of changes I can make to my site to make it less static/flat/booring while still staying readable. Stay posted for those updates!

That's really it for this week - really hoping my figurine I ordered 3 weeks ago shows up today, its meant too. Would be awesome to have it and the new drives rock up together!