https://musithang.github.io/posts/Recent content in Posts on MusiThangHugoen-usFri, 11 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://musithang.github.io/posts/welcome-to-the-archive/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://musithang.github.io/posts/welcome-to-the-archive/<p>You somehow found your way here, which says considerably more about your browsing habits than it does about my SEO. Noted, and filed.</p> <p>Come in.</p> <p>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.</p>https://musithang.github.io/posts/a-perfectly-good-paperweight/Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://musithang.github.io/posts/a-perfectly-good-paperweight/<blockquote> <p>Or: what you can make a dead phone do if you refuse to accept that it&rsquo;s dead.</p> </blockquote> <p>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 &ldquo;good luck with that,&rdquo; and it had already been replaced, so it stopped being my phone and became the phone in the drawer.</p> <p>Throwing away a perfectly good piece of silicon felt wrong. Not using it felt worse. So: what if it ran a homelab.</p>