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I want to flash my mobo to the most recent version, but in order to ensure the firmware I downloaded isn’t corrupt I need to use Q-Flash. Normally I would just run the checksum against SHA1 or whatever in 7zip, but they only provide me a 4 digit checksum – how stupid is that? Anyway, the checksum will show in Q-Flash.

But in order to use Q-Flash I need to use an external formatted as FAT32, FAT16, or FAT12 (even more stupid!)

In order to do that, I need to use one of my externals, but the only one I could find on hand is one I had formatted to ext4 for fast Windows-to-NAS transfers. I would just format it, but I have a minor backup of some of mine and Kerry’s stuff stored on there. It’s like a 4th or 5th backup, but still, I don’t want to just destroy it all.

It’s being a tremendous pain the butt to get all of this to display in Windows, since NTFS doesn’t want to play nice with ext4, even though WSL is supposed to make it easier – it’s not easier if Windows can’t read it, which is what communicates to WSL is available on the system. ARG!

I managed to figure it out, but I’m going to make a guide because this is stupidly complex for something so simplistic.

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I’ve been having a lot of fun repairing the lawn. I’ve designed 5 “zones” for the front and back yard irrigation; dealing with low water pressure has been incredibly aggravating. I’ve also applied a fair amount of organic Milo (Milorganite); it’s organic and only has an NPK of 6-4-0. Synthetic fertilizer (something like 22-0-4) which wouldn’t make much sense right now in early-ish fall, but might be a good idea for late fall for hibernation food.

To make things even more exciting (as exciting as watching grass grow can be), I also bought some Prodiamine to work as a pre-emergent and (minor) form of fertilizer for spring. It’s primary role is to help fight crab grass. I’m interested to see how it works out, but I’ll have to use it in conjunction with some post-emergent “weed killer”. I’ve found some concentrate that isn’t supposed to harm grass but kill weeds. I’m going to start with some spot treatments using some dye, so I can see where I’ve sprayed. Some videos online have also mentioned that adding a small amount of “No tears baby shampoo” to the mix can help due to surfactants in it. Basically, instead of having small individual droplets of weed killer, you get a kind of slick, smooth liquidly surface coverage over the green leaf of the weed. This is good because it’s a more thorough coverage of what the weed needs to live.

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Primarily spending time learning more about JavaScript, working my way through a few tutorials.

I’ve also been drafting a lot of blog posts, but haven’t really had the time to sit down and finish them off. We’re talking maybe 2 to 3 per day. Take a look at this!

I really should get on top of that and push out some updates, so it doesn’t look like this site is abandoned. That’s not really the point though, is it? The point is to document and share things of substance, not just rambling.

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Reverse proxy with nginx

  1. I had security concerns with port forwarding so I switched
  2. Troubleshot issues with http/https for docker containers
  3. Removed old firewall rules
  4. Fixed remote stuff (cellphones, etc.) after setting the subdomains

GitHub CI

  1. I wanted better metrics tracking in GH; my contrib graph is screwed up because of Postman auto-commits, so I installed WakaTime.
  2. Getting cool stuff to auto-pop meant making a GH Workflow; I used a custom yaml config. It runs once a day at midnight.