commit 73d4b8b9cd7777e6306aa7268d87dfc9c7575cb8
parent ee2d03b9564d2cc921f4ccb4edb6afb496db8b80
Author: regexghost <dev@regexghost.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 12:34:38 +0100
new blog post about mini pc, other minor changes
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diff --git a/blog/2026/july/my-new-mini-pc.md b/blog/2026/july/my-new-mini-pc.md
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+title = "My New Mini PC"
+datePublished = 2026-07-09
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+I recently bought a new PC, a HP mini PC called the HP ProDesk 600 G1 DM. It's a USFF PC, about 1L volume, with a i3-4160T and 8GB RAM. It only cost around £40 from eBay, and included the PSU (which a lot of used office PC don't).
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+I used a 500GB SATA SSD which I already owned for the boot drive, and installed Debian 13. Files were all copied over from the Pi 3B+ and everything worked as expected, with a few minor dotfiles changes.
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+Happy with it so far. Cleaned it out with isopropyl alcohol when I first got it, although it was quite clean, likely only been in an office environment. The only annoying thing so far is the fan, it's a bit whiny, although this is somewhwat alleviated by standing the PC on something soft (right now it's sat on an old jotter) to stop it vibrating through my desk.
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+## Benchmarks
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+Passmark CPU: 3467/1899 multi/single threaded
+glmark2 (800x600): 627
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+## Fastfetch Screenshot
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diff --git a/blog/2026/june/goals.md b/blog/2026/june/goals.md
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title = "Summer Goals"
datePublished = 2026-06-21
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My goals for the summer (starting late June, ending mid September when I return to Uni)
diff --git a/blog/2026/june/jwm-pi3-fastfetch.md b/blog/2026/june/jwm-pi3-fastfetch.md
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title = "JWM Pi 3B+ Setup - Fastfetch + Moved to sbase"
datePublished = 2026-06-20
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## Fastfetch Output Finally Complete
diff --git a/blog/2026/june/mini-pc-vs-pi.md b/blog/2026/june/mini-pc-vs-pi.md
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title = "Mini PC vs Raspberry Pi"
datePublished = 2026-06-17
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For the last month I've been using a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ as my main computer. Overall I think it's gone quite well, for most things I do (i.e. anything done in a terminal), it works perfectly well. There have been some minor annoyances however, for example not being able to use a modern web browser. I'm in the process of replacing a lot of these tasks with terminal tools, but there are some things which do require the web (for example renewing GitHub keys, or commenting on GitHub issues in other people's repos).
diff --git a/blog/2026/may/low-end-box.md b/blog/2026/may/low-end-box.md
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title = "LowEndBox does Ads right"
datePublished = 2026-05-16
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In order to set up my website and email, I needed a VPS. I've previously had VPS from Vultr and OVH, but they are quite expensive (around £3-£4 a month) for my use case. Luckily I remembered about [LowEndBox](https://lowendbox.com/), and I found a good deal for a RackNerd VPS (less than £15 a year). While browsing the site I noticed something however. One, my ad blocker didn't seem to be working, and two, I didn't mind.
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