Hello everyone! I have two important updates that I want to talk about. One is that I finally have a MAL (or MyAnimeList) account! I will be updating it regularly with the anime I watch/already have watched. So please take a look!
The other thing I need to update you on is the Vocaloid and Hatsune Miku video that I have been working on for a while. I wanted to release the video on Saturday the 9th (it’s a Japanese pun, if you didn’t know), but I though about it, and I decided the video needed extra time in the oven so that you guys could enjoy it. So, I hope I can get the video out sometime later this month. I will try at least.
Anyways, thanks for reading this update and I hope you have a great day. Bye!
Hello everyone! It has been a while, hasn’t it? Well, there have been many things going on in my life that I just have not had any time to write a blog post. Well, I wanted to take some time and explain why the server has been going offline every so often.
If you want the short version, I made the switch from a Raspberry Pi-based server to an x86-based server will all of it being self-hosted!
Now, for the people who want an explanation, here I go. I used to use a Raspberry Pi 4 for all of my server operations (running my website, my VPN, etc), and it was getting a little slow for my liking. I was also wanting to run applications that required an x86 machine to run. So, I needed a change, and that came when I bought an HP EliteDesk from a recycler here in Meridian. Ironically, they most likely take computers from my school district, so this might have been at a West Ada school sometime in its life. Interesting, right?
The Raspberry Pi in the Case & Outside the Case:
I would like to point out the specs before I move on, so here they are…
Processor/Graphics: Intel Core i5-6500T @ 2.5Ghz with Integrated Graphics Memory: 8GB DDR4 Storage: 128GB SSD with 2TB USB HDD Plugged In Networking: 10/100/1000 Ethernet
Now, when I got it, I installed Windows 11, since my plan originally was to make this new computer cheap a somewhat decent gaming PC, but things did not go to plan. Windows was slow doing anything, and I was barely able to play a YouTube video. It also struggled even with light gaming. So, I knew I needed to change something. So, I decided to do something that no gamer in their right mind would do… install Linux!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know… crazy! But, doing this was the best decision I have ever made. I decided on Linux Mint as my distro of choice for many reasons including being based on Ubuntu (which is based on Debian, which has APT, something that I am very familiar with), the support for software, and the community surrounding it. So, after 30 minutes of installing, I got things working where I was actually able to watch YouTube, and then play a game (on low settings, but still a huge win over Windows).
My Desktop on Linux Mint as of 10/27/2023
The next step was getting server things to transfer, and this took my hours. Actually, I did the first part the night before (along with Tailscale, my VPN solution), and this the next morning. WordPress was hard to transfer, but I eventually got everything over with some plugins and a bit of elbow grease with the command line. It also took me some time to get Apache configurations right for my subdomains (by the way, those are projects.jackshorenstein.com, old.jackshorenstein.com, dummies.jackshorenstein.com, and dreamsbyarlene.com for my grandma’s website). Thankfully, I was able to get everything all figured out, and everything was complete. I disconnected the Raspberry Pi and switched all of the settings on my router to use the EliteDesk as the server.
And… that was it! I just wanted to document the things I did over the last little while and explain why the website has been going offline. I just want to thank all of you for reading this blog post plus the others that I have posted (I know there are only a few, but whatever) and I hope you will come read the ones in the future. Until next time, surf up, see you on the net! 🙂
P.S. I just want to share this song with ya…
Lyrics:
On your mark, get set! We’re riding on the internet! Cyberspace, set free! Hello, virtual reality! Interactive appetite! Searching for a website! A window to the world, ’bout to get online! Take a spin! Now you’re in! With the techno set! You’re goin’ surfin’ on the internet!
Hello, world and everyone who is reading this blog post! Back in December 2022 (really December 31st, 2022), I started a blog on this domain (JackShorenstein.com) and created my first two posts. One was an introduction to the blog, and the other was a repost of a blog post I did for my old high school’s journalism class (the link to that post is https://tahomanews.com/6731/student-life/whatistahomarobotics/). I decided to post on it more, but over time, I got less interested, and switching back to the old site would make me feel better about the website. So, that is what I did, and it has been like that for a couple of months. But tonight, I rented the movie The Social Network (2010) about Mark Zuckerberg when he founded Facebook. When watching the movie, I had an epiphany. I thought, “I enjoyed writing those posts on my blog, and I would like to do it more!” So, here I am, starting the blog again with a fresh new coat of paint and a rebooted brain to post more about my life, school, and everything in between. So, get ready, people; I will show you what I got, which will be very interesting!
So with that, thank you, guys, for reading, comment, like, and bookmark, and I will see you guys later with a new post! Bye! (Yes, that is a version of the outro to Plainrock124 that I made for the blog! I like his YouTube channel! Go check it out!)
P.S. I have many social medias that I will try link on the site, but if they are not there, here are the links:
