ZFS in general is pretty memory hungry. I set up my proxmox sever with zfs pools a while ago and now I kind of regret it. ZFS in itself is very nice and has a ton of useful features, but I just don’t have the hardware nor the usage pattern to benefit from it that much on my server. I’d rather have that thing running on LVM and/or software raid to have more usable memory for my VM’s. And that’s one of the projects I’ve been planning for the server, replace zfs pools with something which suits my usage patterns better, but that’s a whole another story and requires some spare money and some spare time, which I don’t really either at hand right now.

Jolla had similar concept too at 2013. I had one and back then it was really, really nice phone. Maybe not in a sense that flagship models from big vendors were, but I really enjoyed the UI and modular options was a huge selling point at least for myself. Then they started to work with a tablet which failed on pretty much all fronts and the whole company practically disappeared.

Steps 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7 just need some time. I have the stuff pretty much thought out and it’s just a matter of actually doing the things. I was sick majority of November, but if it wasn’t for that those would have already been completed. The rest need either planning or money. Immich setup would ideally need 2x2TB ssd drives (on raid1 setup) but that’s about 500€ out of the pocket and home assistant setup needs time to actually work with it and to plan things forward. Additionally HA setup could use a floor thermostat or two, some homeESP gadgets and so on, so it needs some money as well.

Majority of the stuff should be taken care of until February, the rest is more or less open.

A ton.

1. Set up email and website hosting on a VPS to replace current setup
2. Get more solid state storage for my home server and finnish immich setup (import photos and all that)
3. Set up proper backups for the home server
4. Migrate current Unifi controller to home server
5. Local VPN server to access home assistant and other services even when travelling
6. Spend some time with my home assistant server, fine tune automations, add some more, add sensors and more controls, maybe add a wall mounted tablet for managing the thing and so on, it’ll never end and need a visit or two from electrician too
7. Better isolation for IOT things on my network. I already have separate VLAN for them without internet access, but it’s a bit incomplete project

And then “would be nice” stuff:

1. Switch Dahua NVR to something else. Current one works in a sense that it stores video, but movement tracking isn’t really perfect and the whole individual NVR box is a bit lacking both in speed and in features
2. Replace the whole home server (currently running proxmox, which in itself is fine). It’s a old server I got from work, and it does work, but it’s not reundant and it’s getting old. So something less power hungry and less noisy would be nice. It just asks some money and time, which I have neither in surplus, so we’ll see.
3. Move home assistant from a raspberry pi to the home server. Maybe add zigbee capabilities next to z-wave and wifi.

And likely a ton more which I don’t remember right now. Money and specially spare time to tinker are just lacking.

Of course it does. But the others were (legally speaking) just suspicions and the vessels in question weren’t in Finnish waters, so there was only so much our officials could legally do (and one could pretty strongly argue that they should’ve done more).

But on this particular case with a whole cargo ship apparently filled to brim with spying equipment, there’s very little hard facts on the story and the best approach would be to wait until our officials conduct their search and write reports. Then, after official and confirmed facts, we can discuss about it further. Right now spreading news like this doesn’t really cause anything more than even more distruption to global situation which is already a pretty complex mess.

And even the ‘russia links’, on this individual case, are a bit thin line to walk. Assuming russians are behind it (and I would be the least surprised if that was actually proven) they’ve hidden their tracs pretty well, so now it’s only a domestic tool for them: “Look how the Finnish people among others doubt us for everyting even if we’ve done nothing and there’s a paper trail to prove it”. Facts are the hard currency with the information war going on, and this is not it.

And, as I’ve got decent chunk of downvotes on previous comment, I would very much like to see the Russian federation to collapse eventually and for the situation in Ukraine to smooth out, but on their own terms. Should Ukraine fall I’m afraid we’d be the next to defend our borders and I’m too old for that shit. I’ll of course do my part should the need rise, but I’m not looking forward on it. I’ve spoken to enough of our veterans to know that the saying ‘war is war and hell is hell, and the first one is way worse’ is a fact and I don’t want my kids to experience that.

The ship in question MIGHT have had some equipment on board at SOME POINT in time. As of now it’s unclear if the devices are still on board and even if they are on the ship we don’t know if they’re packed in crates or wired to power and antennas. And even if it had, it might have legitimate uses and carrying a load like this is not in itself illegal.

And the source is pretty much ‘some guy told us so’. So, as a fellow Finn, I’m glad that our officers are up to their task and the ship is secured for further investigation, mostly regarding to damaged electric and data lines and I trust that they do a proper search and report accordingly at some point.

But right now this James Bond-stuff is getting far more news articles than it deserves. For that headline alone I can understand why it gets traction, our local news very much included, but there’s very little meat on the story at least for now.