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CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space

2025-09-12 22:01:41

CubeSats are fascinating learning tools for space

Cubesats together

These are CubeSats. Satellites that are going to space—or at least, the ones I have here are prototypes. But these have one thing in common: they're all powered by either a Raspberry Pi, or a microcontroller.

Jeff Geerling

YouTube views are down (don't panic)

2025-09-08 01:51:20

YouTube views are down (don't panic)

Many YouTube content creators, myself included, noticed something in early to mid-August: views were down.

After being on the platform since 2006 (though for me, not being a 'professional' YouTuber until about 5 years ago), I'm used to seasonal dips, adjustments after new tweaks to the algorithm or layout/design changes.

But this was substantial.

YouTube Jeff Geerling views down

I had 4 10/10 videos in a row, which is unprecedented. I mean, my content could just be terrible all the sudden, and I've lost all but my core audience. But there are other explanations. Especially when the exact same thing happened to a large number of my peers on YouTube.

Jeff Geerling

I bought the cheapest EV (a used Nissan Leaf)

2025-09-04 22:00:20

I bought the cheapest EV (a used Nissan Leaf)

Jeff Geerling with Nissan Leaf SV Plus at Dealership

I bought a used 2023 Nissan Leaf in 2025, my first 'new' car in 15 years. The above photo was taken by the dealership; apparently their social media team likes to post photos of all purchasers.

I test drove a Tesla in 2012, and quickly realized my mistake. No gasoline-powered car (outside of supercars, maybe? Never drove one of those) could match the feel of pressing the throttle on an electric.

I started out with a used minivan, which I drove into the ground. Then I bought a used Olds that I drove into the ground. Then I bought a used Camry that I bought before we had kids, when I had a 16 mile commute.

Jeff Geerling

How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi

2025-08-28 22:06:28

How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi

Now that Joel0 in the TrueNAS community has created a fork of TrueNAS that runs on Arm, I thought I'd give it a spin—on a Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi 5 with Hard Drives

I currently run an Ampere Arm server in my rack with Linux and ZFS as my primary storage server, and a Raspberry Pi with four SATA SSDs and ZFS as backup replica in my studio. My configuration for these Arm NASes is up on GitHub.

Jeff Geerling

Reverse Engineering ALL the Raspberry Pis

2025-08-26 03:16:05

Reverse Engineering ALL the Raspberry Pis

Earlier this month I covered Jonathan Clark's effort to reverse-engineer the Pi Zero 2 W, and just yesterday, I discovered TubeTime reverse-engineered the Compute Module 5.

i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! check it out at github.com/schlae/cm5-r...

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Jeff Geerling

TrueNAS on Arm is finally a thing

2025-08-23 03:43:56

TrueNAS on Arm is finally a thing

A few years ago, I admit it was rare to find someone running Arm hardware more powerful than a Raspberry Pi in a homelab (or more serious) setting, outside of cloud providers running Ampere or custom Arm CPUs.

Radxa Penta SATA HAT on Pi 5

But as Pis and Rockchip boards have become more powerful (and efficient), and Apple's M-series silicon has become more interesting (the M4 mini being an excellent value proposition for a quiet, tiny server), and even Ampere Altra pricing coming down a bit since it's an 'old' server CPU now, still offering 64 or 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 4... I don't think I'm weird in suggesting Arm is a viable platform for reliable, even powerful servers.

Even for storage.

Jeff Geerling