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Making a 6×4″ eInk picture frame
My grandmother’s birthday is coming up and I was wondering what to give her when I remembered this video I watched a few months ago on an eink picture frame. I checked pimoroni’s site and they actually had larger, 7″ variants in stock, which can neatly fit in a 10x15cm (6×4″) picture frame, so I…
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“thin” servers from Thin Clients
The hardware I managed to snatch two Igel M350C thin clients off of ebay for a very reasonable ~$45 per piece, shipped. Which doesn’t sound all that impressive, but these actually have AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G CPUs. Ryzen Embedded R1505G is a 64-bit dual-core embedded x86 microprocessor introduced by AMD in early 2019. This processor is based on AMD’s Zen microarchitecture and is fabricated on a 14…
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Deploying WordPress on ORACLE Cloud
This is a guide on how to deploy WordPress (or any other container-based service) on ORACLE Cloud and set up a URL with a Dynamic DNS provider. You could use the guide for a Teamspeak or Minecraft server as well. We’ll use a free-tier ARM-based VM, which utilizes their Ampere Altra 80C CPU. The free-tier…
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Daisy-chains with USB
Yes, that’s a term that’s usually associated with Thunderbolt or Firewire. It’s also possible with USB4, but that’s not the main focus of this article. I have a few USB hubs on hand and I would like to see if I can chain them up, and if so, how that will affect the performance. I’ve…
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Steamdeck SSD upgrade
This is meant to be a quick guide on how to upgrade the SSD of a Steamdeck to make more space for games. What you’ll need is an M.2 2230 SSD, a PH1 screwdriver, some plastic cards or prying tools to open it up and a box cutter knife. Oh, and a USB drive with…
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Setting up VMs for gaming on a dual-CPU machine.
Far Cry 4 was being given away for free a couple days ago on Uplay Ubisoft Connect and as a fan of the series, I got a copy for my girlfriend so that we could play together in co-op. It’s fun and it’s definitely worth a try if you like to play FPS games. The…
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Aruba AP to IAP conversion
This is just a small snippet on how to convert a controller-based Aruba AP to a standalone IAP. This writeup is for an AP-274, but it should work similarly on most ArubaOS-based access points. You’ll need: The access point Console access (a serial or micro-USB cable, depending on the AP) A valid firmware file from…
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The build of a Linux-based music streamer
I like music. But every time I want to listen to something it feels like too much of a hassle to fire up a computer and I often think – nah, it doesn’t worth turning on a pc for 10 minutes. So, I decided to have a peek at what sort of streaming boxes were…