Hello people! I've been ill for a couple of weeks, I think that was probably covid. I've lost my sense of smell (plus the coughing, sweating, sneezing, aching, and fatigue), hopefully temporarily, but it's still weird eating and just getting texture - I can't even remember what foods tasted like.

I'm recovering now, helped by a "fit note" that's given me permission for a week off work, so I've been sleeping/relaxing/watching a lot of you tube.

I bought a Raspberry Pi (v4, 4GB) a couple of weeks back with a "build a cluster" plan, but I'm really not sure it's worth the money or effort. I don't want to hang the cluster off the home network, to protect the home network if someone cracks the cluster, so I've been looking at 4G/LTE modems, and that's got me all depressed.

I can buy a second hand Vodaphone USB modem dongle through eBay for under £20, and Id mobile will sell me unlimited 4G data for £16/month, and I'll have to (well, really want to) get a tunnel from A&A for £10/month, and I still don't know what I want to do with the cluster!

I've got a vague "kubenetes + web servers" plan, but the remote server I've got works well enough without all that messing about, and £26/month will rent me 2.9 pis from Mythic, without the up front cost of the hardware.

Ah, well. I've bought one pi, and if I come up with a use case I'll let you know.