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Wow, what a year, and almost done already as well! Not only did I again not blog anything but a ton of stuff has happened, so I decided to make this little roundup of my journey through 2023, enjoy! Late again Alright, let’s start with the most obvious discrepancy: I missed the deadline for this article by a couple weeks because I procrastinated writing it. Ever since I switched to full-time software development my incentive to blog has taken a steep dive downwards (possibly because I already spend most of my time typing stuff?

I recently purchased a FriendlyARM NanoPi R4S I plan to use as a router in a project I’ll blog about later on, so I downloaded the firmware image and flashed it onto the 64 GB MicroSD card using balenaEtcher. Although very simple and convenient, the main disadvantage with these prepared images is the static and way-too-small root partition size. It took a bit of searching to find the instructions that actually work, so here they are.

I like backups. They certainly make me sleep better at night. Not having a backup of your data in essence means “it’s not been that important to begin with”. Most people nowadays are using backups without actively knowing it, at least for their personal files. Operating System built-in solutions like OneDrive on Microsoft Windows and the iCloud in Apple’s universe are just the dominant examples out there. If you look into the market you’ll find countless cloud storage providers ranging from free to advanced paid solutions to keep copies of your digital valuables on someone else’s computer (a.