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Some microsoldering tips
First of all, I'm not some sort of a professional. I've just been watching lots of YT videos and practicing soldering at home with the tools I have. What tools do I have? Well, my main tool is the soldering station Lukey 852D+. Not something fancy.... Continue Reading
Comments: 0 Category: HardwareLinux Secure boot with encryption and TPM
I used to think that secure boot and tpm are just gimmicky features, that don't really help with security. But if you set up everything correctly, you'll get a somewhat steal proof computer (depenging on the UEFI and linux passwords strength) without... Continue Reading
Comments: 3 Category: LinuxLinux Blu-ray backup storage
I use BD-RE disks as a backup storage (combined with HDDs and cloud storage). Because the usual way of using optical media implies wiping the whole disk to remove/add/change a file, I decided to experiment with different solutions. Actually, you can... Continue Reading
Comments: 0 Category: LinuxUSB trackpoint from an old Thinkpad
I really like the concept of trackpoints that are used in Lenovo Thinkpads. While it's not as precise as a normal computer mouse, the ability to move the cursor or scroll without even moving your fingers is great. Despite visual similarity with a... Continue Reading
Comments: 1 Category: HardwareAce of Spades server
A few months ago I've tried to host an Ace of Spades server on a raspberry pi 4. It kinda worked and there was no lag during the game, but map loading took too much time, so players got disconnected between rounds. I stopped trying to solve that issue... Continue Reading
Comments: 13 Category: GamesLinux Server from an Android smartphone
Most of the smartphones have quite powerful processors (better than even raspberry pi 4 has), 2 or more gigabytes of RAM and some storage that is faster than a lot of SD cards. Wouldn't it be nice if you could host a site, game server or media storage... Continue Reading
Comments: 1 Category: LinuxHello World
This is the first post on this blog. I desided to scrap my old blog completely. It was based on static pages and required a standalone script to add new posts. Today I desided to give a try to Bluelog. It's a flask based blog. I did make some minor... Continue Reading
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