Tag: linux
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VPS Meltdown
I have had schettino.us hosted at Servermania for 9 years…. it was a good run, but at the end of November 2024 the VPS went offline. They tried to recover the hosting node, but in the end they declared the node dead, and all data lost.
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Monitoring Ioniq 5 / Kia EV6 EV SOC / 12 V battery with Munin
The SOC (state of charge) and the charge of the 12v battery is available in the MyHundai app. That means you can also look it up via the bluelink API. This munin plugin will poll the API (not too frequently, and NOT pulling current values from the car – to avoid 12v battery drain) and…
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How old are those disks, anyway?
The day after the big heat wave, I woke to a dead home server. Not good. Fortunately things eventually recovered enough to bring everything back up, but that got me thinking about the actual age of the spinning rust (the drives) and the likelihood that the consumer/home grade drives were probably due for an upgrade.