My old GE dishwasher broke (completely dead, tried many ways to reset, was dying for months though...). Bought a new Bosch 500 (highest not-zillion-dollar model I could get over weekend). Installed, went to mess with some settings, then saw: "this setting requires the HomeConnect app" Oh. Okay, so like Bluetooth or NFC or something? Nope. They want me to connect my _dishwasher_ to WiFi to configure a number of settings on it! Ugh. No way, no how.

Seriously, YouTube?? I purposely leave off mid-rolls for first few days to reward viewers who watch within first push for a video. (And only add one per 10 min after—YouTube adds more) This means I'll have to do more work to give viewers a slightly-better viewing experience :(

YouTube's been great... but it also scares me. As a kind of 'RAID 1' for my video content, I'm also on Floatplane now (

Floatplane

Floatplane is a streaming platform offering exclusive creator-driven shows, tech reviews, and tutorials with high-quality, ad-free viewing on all y...

). Here's more on why—and a sort-of celebration of 500 videos over 18 years on my YouTube channel:

The power company cut power for 4 hours last night — how did NUT on my Pi work out? A Level2Jeff special:

The high-end 16 GB Pi 5 (plus accessories) is $208. A faster Tiny PC with an Intel N150 and 16 GB of RAM is $159. When did Raspberry Pis get so expensive?

IBM completed it's acquisition of HashiCorp. I wonder if they want to finally merge Terraform and Ansible. That would be a Terrible idea.

It's time to protect my servers with NUT on my Pi! The power company said they'll cut power this week for a transformer swap... so UPS monitoring moved up to the top of my priority list, resulting in today's video:

Finally might make VCF Midwest this year, barring any health issues (knock on wood).