Success!
I stated in my last post that I'm making a move away from Google, Microsoft, and their ilk, to more free and open source software. One of my first big goals is to build myself a NAS that will serve as a replacement for Google drive. Before putting Ubuntu on an old MacBook earlier this year, I really had no experience using a command line interface and knew next to nothing about Linux in general. Fast forward a couple months, and I've finally got my headless raspberry pi up and running that will serve as the NAS machine. It took me a bit because this was a project I would dabble with here and there, but always run into the issue of not being able to SSH into the pi in order to install samba and set up the folders for the NAS. Well, I finally stuck with it for longer than 30 minutes and did some light digging into the issue. It turns out that even if you enable SSH when creating the boot drive using Raspberry Pi Imager, you still have to hook up the pi to a keyboard and monitor to enable SSH through the config menu, which is incredibly frustrating. I'm sure this is small potatoes for the pros out there, but I am incredibly proud of myself for finally figuring it out. Small wins like this while learning something new are incredibly gratifying. I'm looking forward to more storage arriving so that I can set up the NAS itself. I'll make sure to post my progress here.
I was going to post some quick-hit links to news stories that grabbed my attention today, but I think everyone already knows how shitty the world is. Instead I'll recommend a few fun podcasts that I enjoy.
Matt and McKinley Breen are a father-son duo that release a short podcast every week day on the the "weird, the wild, the wonderful" parts of history. I have a short commute and a 20-minute podcast about interesting history tidbits is a nice way to fill that time.
Brought to you by actor/writer/director/sometimes DJ Diallo Riddle and music producer and musicologist Luxxury (aka Blake Robin), One Song is a music podcast for music fans made by a couple of music fans that dives deep into one popular (or maybe not-so-popular) song each week. Riddle and Luxxury will go through the history of the song, its inspiration, break down the stems, and even get into the publishing splits without getting too in-the-weeds with jargon or a condescending hipster-ness that some music podcasts ooze with. The tone of the show is earnest and fun, and you can tell these guys just really like sharing their passion for music with the audience and each other.
You probably know about this one already, but it's easily my favorite and the one that really got me into listening to podcasts over a decade ago. Actors Jason Mantzoukis, June Diane Raphael, and Paul Scheer watch so-bad-it's-good-movies and attempt to answer the question posed in the show's title, "How did this get made?" There are obvious episodes like, Tommy Wiseau's The Room and the bloated Scientology-coded sci-fi flick Battlefield Earth, then there are hidden gems such as the bizarre yet earnest after-school-special-esque Miami Connection, or the obviously in on its own joke Velocipastor. They even have a running series that breaks down all of the Fast and Furious movies with actor and friend Adam Scott. Some of my favorite episodes feature guest Nicole Byer, who absolutely elevates every show she's on.
That's all for now! Until the next one...