I was on vacation from July 1 to July 28. Physically I had a good rest, but I feel that I didn't have enough time for a mental rest from work. I also feel that I didn't rest very well and I should have at least walked outside for a couple of days, but I didn't.
During my vacation, I assembled a table that I bought 2-2.5 years ago and now I have a much more comfortable table for working and relaxing at the computer.
Towards the end of my vacation, on July 25, the game Earth Defense Forces 6 was released, which I bought and am still playing and going through.
At the moment, by the date of this post, you can see that I have already left my vacation and it's time for me to write a letter of resignation from work.
No matter how many different blogs and manuals I read on the Internet, I absolutely cannot find how I can really adequately create categories and pages in order to create a hierarchy that would not fall apart almost immediately.
In terms of page hierarchy, I liked the xwiki engine better, because in it you can really link pages to each other and get a tree-like page structure that is very easy to maintain in its pure form.
There is no such structure in mediawiki. The hierarchy is absolutely flat, the pages are regular and pages that cannot be nested anywhere and must have unique names, because the media wiki structure is created like in any simple note-taking application. It was this kind of flat hierarchy that I wanted to avoid when I was looking for a place where I could write down my knowledge on tasks that I encounter quite often or for which I can hardly find information described anywhere in a form that is understandable to me personally.
But unfortunately, I still have to put up with such a hierarchy and try to put all my efforts into maintaining the crutch hierarchy, consisting of colons and indicating pages and categories in order that leads to the page I need.
A small example of how much of a crutch method I use:
I find this as disgusting as possible, given the additional inconvenience of page titles being limited to 255 characters. I really don't know what I'll do in the future when I run into problems that won't allow me to maintain a nested hierarchy.
Once again, scrolling through the application store of my server, I noticed that the application store of my server already has a mediawiki engine. Taking into account how much RAM the docker xwiki container consumes, I decided to install the mediawiki engine and move to it.
I really didn't like the mediawiki engine. Everything is very simple and very difficult at the same time. Everything works and is configured crookedly, and I could hardly figure out what and where I really needed to edit in order to create categories and pages.
To structure the categories a little, I made a main category and made links to the subcategories that I wanted. After that, I enabled the CategoryTree plugin in the engine settings, which does not work as I need and does not show pages in categories no matter how I configure it.
The categories themselves are the same pages that cannot simply be taken and attached to a category. I need to take care of the correct names of the pages so that in the future I don’t have to deal with the horror that awaits me from this wiki engine, but I’ll think about that later.
I finally opened my blog to the possibility of mentioning it and following to it on other social networks using ActivityPub protocol. I don’t know yet how this will work, but nevertheless I hope that this will somehow give me the strength to deal with my services and myself more than nothing.
Nevertheless, I decided to deploy my own wiki platform in order to record the knowledge that I receive while I am sitting at home.
Still, it is very convenient to collect knowledge from all over the Internet in your own place, and after a while there will be a very large collection of different nuances that I have collected for everyone. Perhaps someone can even help me with this, but I need to be careful when issuing rights to strangers.
I will be adding my wiki to the link lists soon so you can click on the link and view my wiki.
The reasons for this decision are simple to the point of banality. This service eats up a lot of RAM on my small NAS server and I only used it at 1-5% of the power of this service.
Using these heavy services requires time that I don't have. I used it only to automatically scan my computer and laptop for vulnerabilities. But due to the fact that I update my devices constantly, the list of vulnerabilities all this time was empty 99% of the time. Therefore, it no longer makes sense for me to keep this service on my small server.
Let's take the place instead of some kind of wiki that will allow me to record my knowledge and solutions to the problems that I face in life.
I now mainly use it as an electronic key holder (to the extent possible with the official firmware and hardware), as a toy with a long operating time, and as a remote control of my computer via Bluetooth.
There is absolutely no point in asking me the question “why do I need this toy?” I will not answer it for you, just as you will not answer the question “why do you need any thing.” If you don’t like a thing or you absolutely don’t understand the meaning of a thing, then you have never in your life found yourself in any situations (even indirectly) in which the thing you are considering could be useful to you and you are in any In any case, you won’t understand if you’re not interested in or don’t know any topic related to this thing.
I celebrated New Year as usual alone at home. During the weekend until about the 5th, I rested quite well (slept, ate, played on the computer), and a little later I decided to assemble the table that I bought more than a year ago and which was still lying in an unopened package in the second room that I I often use it as a warehouse. Now this table is almost complete and is lying upside down right in my room, because I assembled it for two days without sleep and was recovering all this time (only the electronics remain to be attached to the table, but I’m thinking how I can do this without using a lot of screws , because I don’t like to spoil the appearance with holes, if suddenly something needs to be moved to another place in the future).
I also remembered about such a thing as “Flipper Zero” and decided to give myself a gift by buying this device. I decided to buy it for myself only because I had a strong feeling that I would need it more than once and it would be very nice to study it, including third-party firmware. But literally today the outbid seller on ozone returned the money to me because he didn’t want to sell it to me at a price much lower than what outbid dealers usually charge. Well, it’s okay, since during the wait I learned quite a lot of things about where this device is bought and read the official group in the telegram, I decided to order through the official store and at a third cheaper than I would have bought from a reseller. Since he doesn’t want to take the money, then there’s no need.
The last thing I would like to write about is that my Corsair MP600 M.2 SSD died yesterday. This was unexpected, but luckily I started making backups of my computer a couple of days before, which saved me. At the moment I have restored the operating system from my server to a “WD Purple” HDD and will suffer for a couple of weeks from the terribly slow performance of Windows 11 on the HDD hard drives while my SSD is being checked under warranty at the store where I bought it in 2019.