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.title = "Microblog - 2025",
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## About

A place for short form thoughts and ideas

> This page lists entries for the current year, for past entries consult the [microblog archive](/microblog/).

## [Killing Falcons]($section.id("2025-08-10T20:00:00))
My PC - aka falcon - has been faithfully running under my table with no issues for the past ~7 years with no issue, the i7-8700k and the 1070Ti running happily. 

I was overseas in Canada for the past year, and it happily ran with only 1 minor issue, the CMOS battery dying and the computer failing to reboot after a power failure, and also a memory upgrade, bumping from 32Gb to a 64Gb, by my father. 

I came back, saw the dust covered PC and slightly rusting PC and decided it was time for a deep clean. Opened it up, used a air blower and blew out the dust. Tried swapping out the GPU with a A2000 ADA that I just bought for my minisforum (while my cooler is still on delivery) and now the computer failed to boot, being stuck in a bootloop, with no display out from both the dGPU and the iGPU. 

The AsRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 4 is "very well designed", with no indicators (LEDs or displays) of any kind, making the issue even harder to debug. I tried booting it again with my trusty 1070Ti and had still no output. 

I guess I did blow out some load bearing dust...

I'm assuming i've killed the motherboard and am picking up a 2nd hand motherboard, so wish me luck. 

## [Helm]($section.id("2025-08-08T16:00:00"))
Another thing I'm exploring is writing a helm chart. I've got one generated by Claude [here](https://git.yadunut.dev/yadunut/system/src/branch/main/charts/system) but I feel like it's overkill for what I'm trying to do. So going through the generated templates and removing unnecessary stuff. For reference, I'm using podinfo's helm chart to see what I actually need

## [Minisforum MS-A2]($section.id("2025-08-08T15:00:00"))
I've recently got my hands on a Minisforum MS-A2 and have been wanting to join it to my home cluster. Instead, i've been tinkering around writing cleaner nix code... ~~Giving Up~~ Pausing on that for now, and just shoving code into the [configuration.nix](https://git.yadunut.dev/yadunut/dotfiles/src/branch/main/penguin/configuration.nix). 

Also got myself a A2000 ADA but at its current form factor, does not fit into the MS-A2. Just ordered a [cooler](https://n3rdware.com/components/single-slot-rtx-2000-ada-cooler) so that this GPU fits into a smaller form factor case. and hopefully with that, I have a mini portable powerhouse. 

Just as I bought this, I started seeing benchmarking results for the Ryzen AI Max 395+, and it seems to be blowing this out of the water, due to its unified memory(?) architecture

## [Hello World]($section.id("2025-08-05"))
This is the first entry in this year's microblog created with [Zine](https://zine-ssg.io)! I'm exploring using Jujutsu as a VCS right now, and it seems interesting. The site data can be found [here](https://git.yadunut.dev/yadunut/yadunut.dev).