System Migration Complete, and Now it's Cherry Time
ZFS sync from box to box, impatience, performance, routines
Need more PCIe slots, not more lanes, but slots.
Staring at this board, mentally converting PCIe lane count to device requirements, only to consider that yet again... It's 2025. We're still using the PCIe slot standard for most motherboards, even on enterprise boards. Who's doing this right, at least marginally so? ASRack (brain, please grow up and stop making elementary jokes) has been putting four physical x16 slots on their "Deep mini-ITX&
Women's Safety Online: Why I'm No Longer on LinkedIn or Twitter
The vast and varied subject of Women's Safety Online is a topic which impacts many facets of daily life, including emotional and physical well-being. This post is not a primer on the concepts, rather it offers a short timeline to explain why I am no longer on LinkedIn or Twitter social networks for reasons of personal safety and privacy. A Tenuous Timeline 1) Some years prior to a
The demise of Fedora as a Developer Distro
The Q4-2024 through Q2-2025 cycle has been one of remarkable instability for Fedora kernels and systemd breaking-changes. F40 through F42 have offered more crashes, more kernel panics, and more core dumps than any triple-set of versions since its dawning into existence - and I've been running this distro for dev-only boxes since the first release. In the worst of circumstances, Fedora notified me of a firmware update, which
🌐 Nvidia Ai Cluster for Traveling 🌐
A little travel cluster, all set for Ai engineering and development. * 1x Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX 16GB * 3x Nvidia Jetson Orin NX 16GB * 3x GoWin R86S 6005 + CX5 25G OCP 2.0 * Various network hardware Setup in a Pelican Air case, ready for the flight! #ai #engineering #development #nvidia #cluster #jetson #travel <img src="https://prose.winterschon.com/content/images/2025/06/79fe97c7e2.png" width="600&
🌐 Weekend Hardware Update 🌐
Some additional reorganization time this weekend, all busy with the process of preparing the HomeLab for another interstate relocation. Having decided to repurpose some hardware to create a new router, this one formerly hosted infra VMs several years ago, but now it's going to run a pair of "BSD Router Project" VMs for on-host H/A, and a bit of packet shuffling between hosts for RDMA
🗑️ Import Your Failures! 🗑️
While using Soundcloud the other day, prompted by a little helper fellow which states: > "Import your Spotify Playlists!" ok, sure. I'd like to use a single app for music if possible, and I prefer Soundcloud to Spotify in general. So, I click ok and authorize the apps' APIs to do their thing. It finishes importing. Great, back to work. Life goes on. Days later,
Memories of Harmonic Distortion, Descending Carson Pass
While training for The Death Ride one year, so many years ago, I had quite a surprise on Highway 88 while descending Carson Pass in the Sierra Nevada. This was in the late season, the last week of October, a last minute plan with a best friend to get one last ride in before the snow storms arrived. On top of the usual physical challenges of climbing ~2,500'