The joke about forced ventilation has come true — it’s not even peak summer yet, and the equipment shelf is already showing +38ºC.

So a quick Amazon search turned up the smallest (80mm) decent consumer fan I could find — USB-powered, a 3-speed …

Working from home has shown that Wi-Fi can sometimes be unstable — it’s still unclear whether it’s the microwave oven or something else. So I’m going to try connecting the laptop the good old way, with a cable. The one catch is that my …

And here is what arrived to me in packaging proudly labeled “Made In USA” — a bigger box of boxes! It’s a bit larger than a matchbox, shown for scale. And a cat for scale too. The creature really wanted to get into the frame, so it helped …

Bought this little box-of-boxes to store boxes for boxes )))

The thing itself is not very large (25×20×16), but the compartments turned out to be long enough to fit tweezers, a spare spark plug, and my DIY phone-to-tripod mount adapters. Now all the junk …

And to answer the question, “why bother with all that fuss with extension cords” — the answer is: to get rid of (or rather prevent) constructions like these:

As expected, 12 outlets turned out to be not enough (or rather, not everything can be plugged in at a single spot — sometimes the cable is just a bit too short), so the final (for now) addition arrived to catch up: a wall-mounted outlet block. They come in …

I’m obviously not going to connect just one NAS to the UPS — that would be both unfair and unwise.

Well, look who’s here! My first UPS! Having lived on laptops for over a decade, I never felt the need for one — if the power goes out in the building, the ISP’s equipment will most likely go down too, and if it’s just a blown fuse, the …

Several little gadgets arrived today — groceries and toilet paper get logistics priority over hardware, so the wait was long. But this thing with 12 outlets + 5 USB ports should significantly reduce the entropy of my little cabinet. Life in the 21st …

Got out of the habit of tower computers with big fans… Only half a year has passed since that memorable Black Friday when a Synology moved in with me — and this is what its (her?) insides look like today.