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time for another Sun Ray blog post!

among my many other incredibly autistic hobbies, I have been known to enjoy toying with telephony solutions - usually software-based ones.

NOTE: We are one of the developers of PluralKit, and this post is written with that perspective - but this is our own opinion, not that of PluralKit as a project, nor that of our employers.

so, SvelteKit. it's a pretty nice web framework!

I am one of those people who will only-semi-ironically say "20XX is the year of the Linux desktop!"

NOTE: tl;dr: for OpenIndiana 2025.10 (and above), have a look at our updated install guide!

I picked up a HPE/Nimble CS1000 array for the low low price of free a while back, and it's sat in storage since. about time I did something with it!

welp. in the last installment of the Sun Ray saga, i mentioned the difficulty in finding newer firmware releases for these wonderful little guys. tl;dr: Sun Ray Server Software 5.3 onwards stopped shipping the device firmware, requiring a separate download

the orange creamsicle is named Soup. he's a goofball. the tuxedo girl is named Remi. she's a year younger than Soup, but much larger - and much more intelligent (not hard, given Soup is orange).

i've used thin clients at home for quite a while - both for their intended use (remotely accessing a desktop of another system); and in the sense of "modern thin clients are x86 boxes that are wildly overpowered for what they run, so they make good mini s…

i tend to like using Libreboot on the computers of mine that support it - which is many of them, because i have far too many ThinkPads. while setting up Libreboot on a ThinkPad T420, i ran into a SeaBIOS bug - the AHCI initialization code had been recently

recently, on a trip to the local computer recyclers, i saw they had some Citrix-branded rack-mount servers. i was looking out for little applicance-like rack-mount gear, but wasn't sure what these were, so i popped the lid of one of them off, only to be g…

someone in a discord server i'm in asked the question "how do you tell windows versions apart by looking at them?"

cohost will become read-only on Tuesday, October 1st.

trying to do that whole "blogging" thing again. i don't know how this will go, but we'll see in due course.