MacBook Pro - Fedora 36 sleep wake
Few years back I wrote about running Linux on a MacBook Pro. An year ago, the OpenSuse failed to boot on the Mac. Little bit of debugging, I realized the problem isn't in the hardware. That particular...
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QNAP Stopping Maintenance of TS-419P II (yet again)
Back in 2018, Qnap announced to stop supporting my NAS on December 2020. They walked that date back multiple times and at the time of writing, the EOL date is on October 2022. I hope they don't mean it...
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This topic won't go away. It just keeps bugging me. Back in -19 I wrote about GPE06 and couple months ago I wrote about sleep wake. As there is no real solution in existence and I've been using my Mac...
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Davis Vantage Vue battery life
Over three years ago I had to get a new weather station. See my blog post about it.Yesterday a storm hit and I wanted to see the measured wind and gust speeds. They were zero. As in no wind at all!...
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Monitor Arm installation
This is one of my computing setups at home office:This one has a MacBook Pro 16" at desk and some extra display real estate on top of it. It's a Samsung 4K screen. As there are other computers on this...
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HP Color LaserJet custom X.509 certificate
One of the pieces of hardware I own and opereate is a HP printer. Most of the time it acts as a ... well, paperweight. Then there is an urgent need to have an A4 with information to be delivered...
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RAID1 Disc Drive upgrade
On my home Linux server I ran out of disc space on my 2 TB hard drive. Or, technically speaking there were hundred or so unallocated megs left on my Logical Volume Manager. That translates as I hadn't...
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Nokia 5.3 de-bricking after reset
Given the vast differences between Apple's iOS and Google's Android platforms, I own, run and operate both. For those interested: Apple I have as my daily mobile, Android, the more popular platform, I...
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Secure Torx - Drive decommission trouble
I'm a known owner of an angle grider:Above pic is from my blog post about making sure my data won't be read off on a decommissioned hard drive.One day I had an untypical burst of...
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Assembly of my new PC 2023
It's funny how fast you stop paying much attention to your car or sofa. First you spend reasonable amount of money on it. Then they just exist as everyday items. Then, slowly but surely, there is the...
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HP Color LaserJet custom X.509 certificate - Part 2
Earlier this year, I wrote how it was impossible to replace X.509 certificate on a HP printer.Let's state the good news first: Me and many other people suspected, it was a broken firmware. Indeed, that...
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Nuvoton NCT6796D lm_sensors output
LM-Sensors is set of libraries and tools for accessing your Linux server's motheboard sensors. See more @ https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors.If you're ever wondered why in Windows it is tricky to...
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New toys - Apple iMac
Summer here in Finland is over. It's windy and raining cats&dogs. Definitely beginning of autumn.For me, summer is typically time to do lots of other things than write blog posts. No exceptions...
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More USB Ports for iMac - HyperDrive 5-in-1 USB-C Hub
Apple computers are known to have not-so-many ports. Design philosophy is for a machine to be self-sufficient and to not need any extensions nor ports for extensions. Reality bites and eats any...
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Wi-Fi Router Lifespan: A Threat to National Security?
Wireless LAN, or Wi-Fi, is topic I've written a lot about. Router hardware is common. Most end-user appliance people use are wireless. Wi-Fi combined with proper Internet connection has tons of...
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