sam

@sam@cablespaghetti.dev

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. AuADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Formerly known as @sam@running.cafe.

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Time for another blog post, about hosting a fediverse instance on my ancient Raspberry Pi. Obviously I had to share it on the fediverse.

https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html


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    If you’re reading this you have been successfully migrated as a follower to my stupidly underpowered Raspberry Pi hosted instance. Let’s see how it does with nearly 700 followers. 😆

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      @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk that boost did not help my load situation. 😆 I may have some work to do for this to be properly stable.

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        @mmeier@social.mei-home.net @sam I am also a Firefox user but don’t have the same issue. Very strange. Thanks for flagging.

        There are some HTML validity issues I’m seeing if I put it through validator.w3.org that I will endevour to fix. Maybe it’ll help. 🤷

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          @mmeier@social.mei-home.net @sam Very interesting. Which browser are you using? It works fine on all my devices/browsers.

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            @mmeier@social.mei-home.net @sam I ever so slightly broke the Pi posting the link to the fediverse and every instance hitting it all at once. Is it good on your end now?

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              Here's a blog post on setting up Alpine Linux on my old 256MB Raspberry Pi in diskless mode and having it host a static site (and now my blog). I'll write up another on how I got Snac installed to have it host my fediverse presence over the next few days. Enjoy!

              https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-static-site-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html


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                If anyone is having issues loading my blog post or it renders strangely in your browser, please let me know. I think it might have been a result of all the Mastodon servers trying to download it at the same time and causing partial transfers of the html

                At no point did I say this was an optimal configuration for a website and social media account!

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                  @atoponce@fosstodon.org Hah! I had no idea people were gaming the system like this. Those are some hefty declines!

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                    Changes to Kubernetes Slack - kubernetes.io/blog/2025/06/16/

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                      @mmeier@social.mei-home.net @sam Thanks! Feel free, after the initial wobble during transfer of my followers it’s doing ok. 🙂 I’ll write up how I pulled it off over the next few evenings.

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                        @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk It’s all fun! So far it is mostly not falling over. It takes a few minutes to get through sending my posts out to all the different servers though.

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                          If you’re reading this you have been successfully migrated as a follower to my stupidly underpowered Raspberry Pi hosted instance. Let’s see how it does with nearly 700 followers. 😆

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                            @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk that boost did not help my load situation. 😆 I may have some work to do for this to be properly stable.

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                              @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk @sam The Raspberry Pi 1 with 256MB RAM on the other hand is having a very hard day. I think I might need to do some optimisation to the proxy config so snac itself doesn’t get hit so hard every time I post something.

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                                Part of running a instance on a 256MB Raspberry Pi is working out how to do "stuff" without installing more packages than you have RAM for.

                                Here's a script to backup to Backblaze B2 with just Jq as an additional dependency (and the included curl, tar, openssl etc.). It works so far...

                                https://gist.github.com/cablespaghetti/01862b9d8252223719cbe2586145f686

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                                  I have started writing up all this Raspberry Pi related nonsense into a blog post, but true to form it is far longer than I originally intended. The first post will cover Alpine diskless mode, static site hosting and benchmarking and I'll write a second about snac after that.

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                                    Me and the boys are going camping in Wales next weekend. I looked at the price of bike racks and was almost not going to bother taking their bikes. However £80 on eBay and Facebook (sorry) Marketplace later and we have a workable solution. 😁 Love a bargain…

                                    A black SUV with two children’s mountain bikes mounted to a bike rack on the roof

                                    Alt...A black SUV with two children’s mountain bikes mounted to a bike rack on the roof

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                                    The AMD stock cooler is such trash. I upgraded my eldest son’s system to a Ryzen 2300X I got super cheap and came with the cooler. Under moderate load it hits 80 degrees! 🥵

                                    I’ve got a very cheap heat pipe cooler on the way from AliExpress which I hope will improve things…my other son has one and it works well.

                                    Photo of an ICE400SE 3 heat pipe cooler with RGB compatible with many CPU sockets

                                    Alt...Photo of an ICE400SE 3 heat pipe cooler with RGB compatible with many CPU sockets

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                                    @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social This has never crossed my mind but I can probably never unsee it now

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                                      @max@toet.dnzm.nl @sam Sounds luxurious 😆 I did get pancakes in all fairness…

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                                        It’s Father’s Day and I was kindly woken at 5am by my children, who seem more excited about it than I am. 🥱

                                        Happy Father’s Day to all the tired parents out there!

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                                        Starting to play with a bit more seriously on a 256MB Raspberry Pi 1 with a 40GB IDE laptop hard disk attached for reasons...

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                                          Honestly this is going kind of fine so far...that beast of an (overclocked) ARMv6 CPU is just chilling.

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