Brad's Lab Blog


My home lab adventures and general ranting

Nas Upgrade Part 3: Bad Memories

The Synology purred along without issue for a couple years. Then in August 2024 the filesystem got corrupted. I had been using a single...

Pet Tracking with Frigate

I've had an Amcrest wifi camera for a while. Initially I was just using the Amcrest app. Privacy concerns as well as storage got me to...

Yamaha CA-410 II

A while back (January 2022) I somewhat randomly got an old Yamaha CA-410 II. It's a pretty neat amp but had some issues. The right...

Finishing the Classix II

I finally finished my classix II speakers. I bought the kit in November 2021 and got it assembled January 2022. I believe I used them...

Galen Leather Journal Cover

For a while I've been wanting to take my journal with me more. Same for my kindle. The idea is if I have them close by then I'm more...

Looking Back at 2023

I've never really been into new year resolutions. I prefer to make changes when I find them, not wait for some arbitrary date. That said...

What was I listening to in 2023?

This year I think I branched out a bit. I got into prog metal a lot more, but I still don't care for Dream Theater or Opeth. Between the...

A No Longer New Journal

It's hard to believe I've been doing the "bullet" journal thing for 5 years now. I've made some recent changes that felt worth writing...

Fixing my NFS Proxy

You may or may not have read that I set up a k8s VM on my NAS. One of the primary reasons for the VM is to proxy nfs and http...

Nas Upgrade Part 2: Nebula VPN

Roughly a year later, the Synology is running great, and I haven't done much with the configuration aside from the occasional update....


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