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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • I have mini-ITX board in a mini case. 4 bays, 16 GB RAM of DDR3-L and a slow but very low TDP CPU. This thing is very low power but it’s on 24/7.

    Runs home assistant with zigbee, rtl433 and whatever it detects over the network. A few older game servers (minecraft, minetest/luanti, quake 2), miniDLNA, … Arch Linux, so rolling release and always up to date with the latest versions.

    Served me greatly and I haven’t upgraded because it still does what I want and I can’t find any modern CPU with a TDP this low.







  • Brandname “Biscoff” is a disgrace in its home country. The type of cookie is called speculoos, pairs well with coffee (and black tea!). Lotus, the manufacurer, decided to market the cookie outside of its home country by changing the name to Biscoff, a portmanteau of biscuit and coffee. Eventually they changed the name here too, which led to some backlash, but they stuck with the name.

    If you really like Biscoff, they also produce a paste similar to peanut butter, but speculoos taste.

    Now that you know the actual original name of the cookie, you can look for other brands, too.

    Also, check out speculaas, which was the inspiration for speculoos. Speculaas requires a specific blend of spices, which speculoos lacks. “Loos” in Dutch is a suffix meaning without, like “less” in English (e.g. penniless), so it was a clever way to differentiate between speculaas and speculoos.