Tag: raspberry pi
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Retro gaming with Batocera
In this post, I want to take you on a journey. A journey back to the future… of retro gaming. I’ve long extolled the virtues of retropie, however my head was recently turned by Batocera. I wish I had discovered it sooner! I’m a big user and advocate for Raspberry Pi devices. They are great,…
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Container Monitoring with cAdvisor, Prometheus and Grafana (Part 2)
After my previous post on this topic, I realised there were issues to address due to running Docker and cAdvisor on an ARM-based architecture. The issue As per my previous post, I use Raspberry Pi 4 devices. To get the cAdvisor container to run, you need to use the ARM64 image. An inkling that something…
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Container Monitoring with cAdvisor, Prometheus and Grafana
This article is a walkthrough of monitoring containers using cAdvisor, Prometheus and Grafana. I run ‘lots’ of containers at home. At the moment, I have everything running across a number of hosts (predominantly Raspberry Pi 4 devices) running Docker. What I wanted to implement was a way to run cAdvisor locally in a container on…
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Tech perspectives of a new generation
I’ve previously posted about ‘low’ tech and how it is perceived by younger generations. My oldest (secondary school age) is fairly representative of the next generation – brought up on Xbox and PC gaming which is largely driven by GPU rendering capability. It was his birthday recently and with his money he wanted to by…