{"id":3517,"date":"2026-04-02T09:08:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:15:29","slug":"linux-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/02\/linux-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Admin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often feel like this after a long day as a Linux admin, ha ha &#8211; rough day, heck yeah!  Technology, gotta love it &#8211; and hate it at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of Linux, I picked up an older gaming computer (With 64 gigabytes of ram) for $51 from a school auction at St Vrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A nice computer, $51 &#8211; oh yeah, it is perfect for a Linux server!  I loaded the latest version of Ubuntu Server on it and she is live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I only had a spare 2 terabyte drive laying around, imagine that?  So it is kinda small but enough to play with and get the system online.  I will be upgrading it to a 20 TB drive soon, or maybe even bigger.  We will see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has a nice powerful graphics card and I can use the GPU for some AI tasks around the house. (Or even just for some testing and learning really&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More fun than should be allowed for such an &#8216;inexpensive&#8217; server!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Day 92 \u2014 Don\u2019t wait for motivation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Act first.<br>Motivation follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>TaLi Merchendise<\/strong><\/em><em>\u2013 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/talimerch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/talimerch.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Custom embroidery, clothing, &amp; more\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your brand isn\u2019t ordinary, your merch shouldn\u2019t be either. Get premium embroidery from TaLi Merch and make every impression unforgettable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often feel like this after a long day as a Linux admin, ha ha &#8211; rough day, heck yeah! Technology, gotta love it &#8211; and hate it at the same time. Speaking of Linux, I picked up an older gaming computer (With 64 gigabytes of ram) for $51 from a school auction at St [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}