hddherman

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ThinkPad as a Server: The Follow-Up(ounapuu.ee)
136 points by hddherman 4y ago|95 comments
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About the time I used Google Drive as a CMS for a web app(ounapuu.ee)
2 points by hddherman 4y ago|0 comments
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HoloISO: The unofficial Steam Deck experience on your PC(ounapuu.ee)
1 points by hddherman 4y ago|1 comments
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The ‘Dall UD19PB ThundeRbglt Dock’: My Experience with the HP Elitebook 845 G9(ounapuu.ee)
2 points by hddherman 4y ago|0 comments
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by hddherman 4y ago
Syncthing quite recently added support for this type of use case: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html They do warn that this feature is in beta/testing, so I wouldn't trust it with super critical
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by hddherman 4y ago
You might be interested in Project TinyMiniMicro series that ServeTheHome has covered: https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic... x86-based mini-PCs that are abundant on the used market, pack quite a pu
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by hddherman 4y ago
That's true, I forgot that was a feature they supported with the newer Pi-s. Doesn't work for Pi 1, you can move the root partition to the SSD, but anything needed for the initial boot still has to live on the SD card.
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by hddherman 4y ago
If you have a workload that writes data quite frequently, then moving that data off to an external SSD is also a good way to extend the lifetime of the SD card.
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by hddherman 4y ago
Haven't built any detection in so far, but if I do notice instability, then taking a look at kernel logs should reveal those pretty well with USB device reset messages popping up. I have never used the WiFi on newer Pi-s that shipped w
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by hddherman 4y ago
I use btrfs because of the snapshotting support. btrbk is the tool that makes taking and pruning snapshots easier. In this setup with a single SSD, it has no role in preventing data loss if the SSD itself fails, but it should prevent data l
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by hddherman 4y ago
The recent models do get quite warm, especially Pi 4, but the Pi 1 with an overclock has not gone over 50C in this setup, and that's at a constant 100% CPU usage.
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by hddherman 4y ago
This isn't the only backup I have of the data, it's just another copy of the data. BTRFS snapshots should be enough protection against the ransomware use case as well, assuming I discover it fast enough. And if I don't, I sti
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by hddherman 4y ago
The CPU reports a max temperature of 49C during my testing. I don't think it's that bad, but I'll take your comment into consideration, a cheap case to cover it is probably better than taking that risk.
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I finally found a use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+(ounapuu.ee)
140 points by hddherman 4y ago|150 comments
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by hddherman 4y ago
That’s correct. This SuperUser answer explains it as well: https://superuser.com/a/1633143
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Recovering a password-protected ThinkPad T60(ounapuu.ee)
129 points by hddherman 4y ago|69 comments
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by hddherman 4y ago
From what I’ve heard, no, but I remember things like Clover being mentioned to get around that limitation.
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Testing a Cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD Adapter on My ThinkPad T430(ounapuu.ee)
193 points by hddherman 4y ago|76 comments
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The minimum viable fan control script(ounapuu.ee)
51 points by hddherman 4y ago|30 comments
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Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC(ounapuu.ee)
2 points by hddherman 4y ago|0 comments
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by hddherman 4y ago
Not Just Bikes made a great overview of what makes driving a bicycle in the winter possible: https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU tl;dw: properly designed infrastructure and first-class maintenance results in people actually choosi
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by hddherman 4y ago
> Yes, an app is to be treated as a disposable thing with a shelf life of a few years at best. The part that worries me is that a lot of physical items can only be configured via apps. That's effectively limiting the useful life of
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Overcoming hardware limitations: the time-to-sleep script(ounapuu.ee)
2 points by hddherman 4y ago|0 comments
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by hddherman 4y ago
If true, then this will probably reignite discussions around Plex requiring that you authenticate with their servers when using the service to view content that you're hosting on your own hardware. If anyone is curious, then alternativ
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by hddherman 4y ago
A read-only, self-hostable copy of StackOverflow (and its sister sites) is already doable with Kiwix + the content packages they publish. Content packages: https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages Example o
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by hddherman 4y ago
Some countries are starting to clamp down on shenanigans like this, since without the speed limit an e-bike or an electric scooter is in the moped/motorcycle category and needs to be registered like one. I don't like it, but it co
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Btrbk (btrfs snapshotting tool) is awesome(ounapuu.ee)
4 points by hddherman 4y ago|0 comments
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The absolute state of Bluetooth audio in 2022(ounapuu.ee)
4 points by hddherman 4y ago|1 comments
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by hddherman 4y ago
> But if you are like me and your Raspberry Pi is sitting behind your router's firewall, you can't use this approach as your IP-address is changing all the time. If your DNS provider has an easily usable API, you can set up som
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by hddherman 4y ago
Seems like it's _finally_ time to retire the 2016 iPhone SE. 6 years of active software support, not bad at all compared to the competition.

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