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Disabling the Crappy Broadcom Bluetooth Adapter in Your ThinkPad T430 on Linux(ounapuu.ee)
2 points by hddherman 4y ago|0 comments
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by hddherman 4y ago
> I see people talking about snapshotting, but I haven’t found a need for it. I already have snapshots in my restic backup solution. They’re not especially convenient, but I’ve been using restic for two years, and I only recall needing t
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by hddherman 4y ago
The ThinkPad T430 is quite repairable in that regard. I've replaced the screen in 20 minutes, replaced the CPU, all the SSD-s are easily accessible, and there's plenty of spare parts out there due to the fact that it's a mode
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by hddherman 4y ago
I don't have any measurements other than the general observations that I shared in the post. It should work better than having it lie down on a wooden desk, for example, as that greatly limits the cooling potential. You only have a tin
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by hddherman 4y ago
That sounds very janky, love it! Do you happen to have images or a blog post about that setup that you'd like to share?
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by hddherman 4y ago
Like the thinkmods adapter? https://thinkmods.store/products/expresscard-to-nvme-adapter
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by hddherman 4y ago
Sorry to hear about that. I agree that it's easy to dismiss a lot of ideas like this, and the fact that there's so many people out there working on all these ideas can seem a bit daunting. What has helped me is knowing that I am d
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by hddherman 4y ago
You'd think so, but lately I've found it to be quite handy. Over the last couple of days, the UPS has notified me that the voltage coming from the wall is a bit off, oddly high (250-256V). netdata is nice and even graphs it out to
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Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?(ounapuu.ee)
125 points by hddherman 4y ago|174 comments
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Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU(ounapuu.ee)
1 points by hddherman 4y ago|0 comments
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by hddherman 4y ago
Cookie banners only exist because websites want to collect data and track users. The banner is a symptom of the real issue, which is what the regulation aims to fix.
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by hddherman 4y ago
To go fully passive while keeping the same amount of performance you need to use much more material, so in this case copper and/or aluminium. Moving that air around with a relatively cheap fan works well enough and allows for a smaller
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Strangling your service with a Kubernetes misconfiguration(ounapuu.ee)
2 points by hddherman 5y ago|0 comments
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by hddherman 5y ago
https://ounapuu.ee/ I've finally managed to stick with a disciplined blogging schedule and have managed to write a modest amount of them over the past 2 years. It's also a one stop shop to references to the things
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Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem(ounapuu.ee)
3 points by hddherman 5y ago|0 comments
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by hddherman 5y ago
Syncthing has worked fairly well for this. It has some caveats, and I don't recommend syncing anything other than some specific directories in your home folder to avoid conflicts with syncing config and cache folders. What I synced: ~&
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My self-hosting setup has an UPS now, here’s my experience with it(ounapuu.ee)
2 points by hddherman 5y ago|0 comments
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by hddherman 5y ago
Sometimes the choice of the encoding is affected by the target audience. Devices like Raspberry Pi can decode H.264 video well enough due to having the hardware to accelerate it. Some new hardware, like the AMD Radeon RX 6500, still don’t s
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How I treat my urge to hoard data(ounapuu.ee)
9 points by hddherman 5y ago|3 comments
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by hddherman 5y ago
Properly supporting a device should be left on the shoulders of the manufacturer, not a group of volunteers who do it in their free time.
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by hddherman 5y ago
That's the issue, only flagships. All the more affordable and mainstream models don't get any meaningful software support. Apple has some horrific practices that I don't agree with when it comes to repairability, but at least
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by hddherman 5y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a bumbling idiot who does this type of thing as a hobby. Add nightly or weekly offline backups and you should be good to go. And by offline, I mean physically connecting a storage device, making the backup (preferrably
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by hddherman 5y ago
> Nonetheless, my plans are to rebuild treefort with ZFS and SSDs from another vendor. Whatever happened with the Samsung SSDs has made me anxious enough that I don’t want to trust them for continued production use. Not sure if having on
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by hddherman 5y ago
Have you heard about the Low-tech Magazine? https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ This site is also hosted on an SBC running on batteries, and powered by solar power. Just wanted to mention this in case you haven't heard
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by hddherman 5y ago
If you're into tinkering, then anything that has good-enough specs and has great openWRT support is a safe bet. Personally I use a TP-Link Archer C7 v5, but there might be better options out there by now.
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by hddherman 5y ago
The choice is ideological, not practical. I like hosting all my services all from one box at my home.
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by hddherman 5y ago
If availability is your goal, then yes, a CDN is a good idea. My setup is optimized more towards self-hosting and just doing it as a hobby. The web is centralized enough already, I will do my best to balance that out.
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by hddherman 5y ago
It's mainly down to these points: * I've seen a lot of sites fall over when posted on HN or other link aggregators, like Reddit. * Cloud providers advertise gigabit or bigger pipes for networking, 50 Mbps is not a lot in compariso
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by hddherman 5y ago
Yep, that's why I am planning on getting rid of them completely. I did a quick test this morning, seems like removing references to the fonts from the theme and adjusting some font weights should do the trick.
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by hddherman 5y ago
Do you use your own router behind the box provided by the ISP? And is it DOCSIS? If so, using the ISP-provided box in bridge mode could help. This was the cause of many woes in my setup, whenever there were a lot of connections open, the in

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