So my Pi is taking months to sync now after a rebuild, not sure it’s ever going to finish as I can only ssh into the thing for an hour or so after a reboot before it locks up. Start9 boxes are out of stock (and I would need a Canadian distributor anyway as not dealing with the border for shipping). Best open source alternative? Paranoid about recent chipsets with their built-in back-doors, but any thoughts welcome.

We’ve accidentally lived through a pretty hot couple of years for sci-fi TV haven’t we. Dark Matter, Altered Carbon, The Expanse, The Peripheral (sleeper fave for me), Man in the High Castle. I am definitely cold on the cliff-hanger mill at Apple (Silo, Severance) but enjoyed Foundation and For All Mankind.

Bracing for the worlds-collide impact when our highly engaged young kid enters the public schooling system in September.

Watching birds with youngest child. If I had to guess based upon behaviour, I’d say Nuthatches and Swallows look pretty switched on. Finches dumb as rocks.

Watching the deer and finches out of the kitchen window, it’s all a bit Disney out in the sticks this morning.

Finally running with (seemingly inevitably) the help of AI. Drive now running on external power but still needed to correct a bunch of things with the setup (mostly related to electrs, which is some way on from the version last catered for in the Bolt instructions). Back to smooth running (just as a BTC node, lightning bits stripped out).

Love the chaos. Don’t want to think about the silence at the end of it.

On a ferry, remembering the year when Transport Canada changed the regs so passengers could stay in a below-decks car hold, as drowning en masse in a steel coffin was preferable to catching a cold.

72hr fast completed (first one). No challenges with hunger. Tinnitus curiously worse, and a migraine on day two. Outside of my head, body felt good. It’s amazing how much of our (well, my) day is normally consumed by food. Planning it. Buying it. Cooking it. Eating it. Cleaning up. Family of four, it’s near constant. Lunch boxes. Endless snacks. Etc. Weird to not be on that merry-go-round (I was away from home, the only time this is remotely practical!).

SSH session won’t open at all. Works ok for the first little while. I don’t think it’s an overheat problem, passive case but temps have been fine. I might just have to plug a keyboard and mouse into it and go direct to diagnose. Good pointer on the power, I can try powering the SSD direct. No lightening balances to worry about, cleaned that out before last reinstall.

Thanks. It’s a https://raspibolt.org/ install and it’s a 4. Was working just fine for a couple of years but recently swapped out a 1Tb for a 2Tb due to chain growth and rebuilt from scratch.