https://musithang.github.io/Recent posts on MusiThangHugoen-usFri, 11 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://musithang.github.io/posts/a-perfectly-good-paperweight/Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://musithang.github.io/posts/a-perfectly-good-paperweight/ Or: what you can make a dead phone do if you refuse to accept that it’s dead. There was a Xiaomi 12T Pro sitting in a drawer, doing nothing. Not broken. Obsolete in that specific way a phone becomes obsolete: the resale value had dropped to “good luck with that,” and it had already been replaced, so it stopped being my phone and became the phone in the drawer. Throwing away a perfectly good piece of silicon felt wrong. Not using it felt worse. So: what if it ran a homelab.https://musithang.github.io/posts/welcome-to-the-archive/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://musithang.github.io/posts/welcome-to-the-archive/You somehow found your way here, which says considerably more about your browsing habits than it does about my SEO. Noted, and filed. Come in. Picture a municipal records office built for a future that never showed up. Fluorescent hum. Catalogue drawers. A laminated sign explaining the filing system to visitors who never arrive. Somewhere in the back, a barcode scanner that has not been touched since the building was commissioned.