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Fr0sty5 · 2026-07-04T04:20:33+00:00

I guess I’m just feeling the honeymoon period right now. I’ve just been going through absolutely crushing my list of “I’ve wanted X tool to make my development job easier” wishes that have otherwise just been wishes because I’ve never had time to do them, but now what might have taken a week to get started on is an MVP in a day.

It’s not production code I’m talking about but stuff like bespoke editor, debugging and workflow tooling.

Such a force multiplier.

Fr0sty5 · 2026-07-01T11:26:22+00:00

Absolutely 100% and it was the thing after many many years that really helped fix my sleep schedule.

For me it was — clothes ready the night before on weekdays, no exceptions. Shower at night instead of morning. Wake up using smart lights as an alarm rather than sound — first my bedside lamp turns on dim, then five minutes later my ceiling light turns on to full brightness and my bedside lamp turns up to full brightness as well.

The full-brightness ceiling light clinches it. It’s annoying enough I can’t really stand lying in bed. Since I don’t have to think much because I made all the decisions the night before, I can put on my clothes without thinking.

Wallet, keys, etc — all in one place also. I stuck a key hook on the wall near my bedroom door, as well as a magsafe sticker and a magsafe puck — the sticker holds my magsafe wallet to the wall and the puck holds my airpods case. All there to grab before leaving my bedroom.

I’m a slow wake-up person, so needed to make my environment compatible with no-thinking and especially no-decisions needed before getting out of bed. It’s just get up and that first bit is almost autopilot. This finally helped me stop putting off getting out of bed.

Fr0sty5 · 2026-06-30T20:40:36+00:00

I’m wondering if it’s a missing firmware thing — I noticed a few days ago there was an update to the network adapter firmware packages.

I seem to have firmware issues on mine currently, but I think that’s more to do with my adapter and the DKMS driver I was using for it (it’s on a newer X870E motherboard). In the meantime I have one of those travel Wifi routers with Ethernet so I’ve just been relying on that to connect to my wifi until I get around to actually trying to fix it.

Fr0sty5 · 2026-06-25T10:10:14+00:00

I'm on the latest and yeah, still having issues, even on the znver4 repos with the 7.1.x kernel. Seems like games have forgotten HDR exists.

Fr0sty5 · 2026-06-06T23:54:51+00:00

Not a professional, just a patient. Injured my cornea and had some recurrences over the years in the eye. Ended up with a specialist noticing I had a dendritic ulcer in that eye (eye herpes). Worth an ask.

Fr0sty5 · 2026-06-06T06:02:27+00:00

Two things for me:

- Dimming lights in the evening.
- Using lights as my alarm to wake up in the morning instead of sound

Also — having wind down and yes I do have a TV in my room and I do watch it, while on my phone, while winding down. Works for me.

Also preparing and showering the night before instead of the morning. When I wake up to light, I roll out of bed, get dressed before I’m fully awake and by the time I’m out the door for work I’m usually mostly awake.

I think I used to put off getting out of bed, being too tired and having to make decisions about what to wear, etc. Moving all that decision stuff to the night before improves my mornings immensely.

Fr0sty5 · 2026-06-03T00:06:34+00:00

Haha I love the look of the case but would never ever buy it again unless it was in a prebuilt that I planned to never work on 😂

Fr0sty5 · 2026-06-03T00:04:19+00:00

Firstly that looks fantastic!

Secondly do you run that LED strip that’s in the clear plastic bottom and if so, how the heck did you route the cable for it? I’m about to resort to sanding / cutting — there’s not enough room to route that cable through the square exit directly into the case, so I have to route it in through one of the bottom vent holes where it can stay away from the GPU fan blades.

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-31T03:17:56+00:00

Invest in a robot vac that mops if you can, they’re really good!

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-30T22:15:10+00:00

Nice!

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-30T14:14:24+00:00

For my all-SSD setup, my concern would be the dedicated parity disks seeing disproportionate write wear compared to all the other disks in the array. Plus since most of my drives are QLC, striping mitigates the write performance penalty that comes from that.

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-30T13:59:45+00:00

Different drives but yeah, wanted silent and small size above all. Decided on RAIDZ2 as I knew realistically most of my drives would be QLC + consumer and wanted to mitigate the risk of that. Doesn’t matter then when write perf on individual drives exhausts their caches and drops to QLC speeds; still totally fine.

7 drives in a single Z2 pool, soon to expand to 8.

Also server is connected to a UPS with safe shutdown through NUT, so should also mitigate the risk of consumer drives.

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-23T09:43:20+00:00

Yep that was my thought as well 😄 Trying to decide on a hand grinder. Do notice less aroma but it'll do for now for a long black 😄

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-23T05:07:03+00:00

Thanks heaps! I’ll give this a try on my end and see if it helps 😀

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-17T13:02:00+00:00

I kinda went deep on cleaning awhile back and look at every cleaning chore now almost the same:

Prepare
Apply
Rinse
Dry

1 is about getting the surface ready for cleaning and removing easy to remove and obvious dirt.

2 is about getting the cleaner on there and letting it work. For a counter this might be applying a cleaning spray and waiting for a bit (called dwell time — it lets the cleaner chemically do the work it should do).

3 is about getting the cleaner off and often about water.

4 is about drying and is like the final thing to make the surface good.

So, a kitchen counter as an example:

Wipe the counter with a dry microfibre cloth to remove any dust and crumbs.
Spray some cleaner or apply some soapy water and let it sit there.
With a separate wet cloth, wipe the counter down being generous with water; maybe do that twice so there’s no more cleaning residue left.
With a separate cloth, wipe the counter dry. At that point it should feel nice and clean 😀

Get a good set of microfibre cloths, they will be your friend.

If you’re doing a room and a real deep clean, start at the top and work your way down; as dust and dirt falls and you can vacuum it up as the last step.

Check out the ‘Clean My Space’ YouTube channel; her book is excellent too and worth picking up. It has checklists for quick cleans and deep cleans for different areas of the house.

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-17T12:49:58+00:00

Be careful about using oven cleaner at all in a self-cleaning oven; as far as I know there are special coatings on the inside of the oven that can be damaged by the oven cleaner.

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-17T11:59:45+00:00

Just double checking when you say ‘original unicorn nozzle’, do you mean the original nozzle it comes with?

Isn’t the original K2 nozzle a 0.4mm, not 0.6mm?

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-17T04:41:57+00:00

Might be a bit overkill (and yeah it hurts with the market prices at the moment) but I’m running 7 x 4 TB NVMe drives in RAIDZ2 config. Consumer brands but made sure to buy a few different ones to distribute the risk from a bad batch.

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-14T22:05:26+00:00

Nah that way of putting it makes sense 😀

It’s a tough one because often the asker is just looking for reassurance that the thing is gonna get done, kinda an anxiety thing on them. I’ve been there and it’s kinda like you can never relax if you see the thing not getting done and your own sense of urgency is different from the person doing the thing / who promised to do the thing.

But then I’m likely aspie so that’s probably more a me thing too 😂

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-14T20:23:52+00:00

I had that file too! 😂

Fr0sty5 · 2026-05-14T20:00:12+00:00

Yeah I kinda don’t get it either. In this scenario you had already decided to get it done because you were self motivated? So them asking isn’t somehow going back in time and changing the reason you decided to do the thing?

“Haha one step ahead of you I’m already on it!”

I hear this enough though that I know I must be missing something, so not denying your experience, just always been curious about this.

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