SAMBA and ExFAT Issues

SAMBA and ExFAT Issues

Leaving this as a note to posterity, and possibly to save my own sanity at some future date. TLDR: Don’t host SAMBA shares on an ExFAT volume. At the church which I now pastor (wait…when did that happen?!), we use an RPi4 to host a few simple server...
Adventures in Thermal Throttling and Dual Booting

Adventures in Thermal Throttling and Dual Booting

I’m documenting this here, in the hopes that it may help someone else down the road. I recently inherited a Lenovo IdeaPad S340 from someone who had dumped an entire glass of water across it. After drying out for an appropriate amount of time, the laptop boots...
Discovering

Discovering

I was recently chatting with a colleague, discussing a situation he had witnessed involving a man we’ll call Frank. He told me about a difficult decision that Frank had been forced to make. My colleague ultimately disagreed with the decision that Frank had made,...
On Loan

On Loan

The constant change used to frustrate me. I would invest time into a team member, pour my heart into them, watch them grow, and then…poof! They would be on to the next big adventure, and I’d be left trying to fill the remaining void. It was frustrating to...
Deceased

Deceased

It started out as a passing whim today–I began hunting to find out what had happened to one of my favorite worship blog authors from a few years back.  His posts had slowed to almost none over the last year, and I had caught rumors of a major shakeup in his...
Leadership Myths

Leadership Myths

Here, in no particular order, are a few myths about leadership that I used to believe. Good leaders are born that wayGood leaders enjoy dealing with conflictGood leaders are (or should be) smarter/better than the rest of their teamGood leaders are...