I’ve always wanted to get back to my technical roots and work on electronics projects, however, life somehow always seems to get in the way. The Nationwide/Worldwide lockdown has been in full swing for months now which means lately I’ve had a lot more time to work on various projects such as a podcast, and fooling around with solar power for my garden shed. After … Continue reading DIY Weather Station
Back in December I had my company order me a Dell XPS 13 9360 Developer Edition. After getting it I immediately nuked it and installed Solus, the install went smooth but then I noticed issues with the display manager. I have two external displays and USB-C dock. I couldn’t get the resolutions correct or the orientation of my 23 Inch display to work properly. So … Continue reading Made the Move to Linux full time for work
I’ve had my current company issued Macbook Pro for about two years now. It’s been a bit of a workhorse, relatively powerful with a quad core i5 processor and 16G of RAM and a measly 256G SSD. For the most part this machine has served me well. I had to learn to compromise for it to suit my needs, which admittedly is not typical for … Continue reading Linux Not Quite Ready To Replace Windows For General Business PC Usage
This should be a pretty quick post about a tiny little computer that I used for the first time, no i’m not talking about about the Raspberry Pi. The particular little box I’m referring to is the Intel NUC or Next Unit of Computing. It’s basically a barebones system, just add a hard drive and memory. The short version of this story, is my company … Continue reading Intel NUC is a life saver
In a previous post in had mentioned that everyone should run their own webserver and gave some basic opinions on how to pull that off. Soon after that I also wrote another post about my overly complicated web hosting setup. Since then things have gone completely off the rails. So much so that I decided to break this into at least two posts, maybe more … Continue reading Adventures in colocation
I’ve been a diehard Android fanboy since the beginning of time, while i’d like to say that I’ve been an Android user since the G1, sadly I can’t. My very first Android device was the Samsung Moment, a candy bar slider running “Cupcake” that Samsung end of life’d after only about a 6 month sales period. Then “Eclair” and “Gingerbread” came out and I was … Continue reading Why I Finally Became An iPhone User
