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Dimitri John Ledkov wrote an informative blog post about self encrypting disks and UEFI with Linux [1].

This Coffeezilla video highlights an interesting scam, run a broker for day traders and don’t execute trades, just be the counterparty for every trade and rely on day traders losing [2].

First Sight is a Dust SciFi short […]

ZRAM and VMs

I’ve just started using zram for swap on VMs. The use of compression for swap in Linux apparently isn’t new, it’s been in the Linux kernel since version 3.2 (since 2012). But until recent years I hadn’t used it. When I started using Mobian (the Debian distribution for phones) zram was in the default setup, […]

Dell T320 H310 RAID and IT Mode

The Problem

Just over 2 years ago my Dell T320 server had a motherboard failure [1]. I recently bought another T320 that had been gutted (no drives, PSUs, or RAM) and put the bits from my one in it.

I installed Debian and the resulting installation wouldn’t boot, I tried installing with both UEFI and […]

Colmi P80 SmartWatch First Look

I just bought a Colmi P80 SmartWatch from Aliexpress for $26.11 based on this blog post reviewing it [1]. The main things I was after in this was a larger higher resolution screen because my vision has apparently deteriorated during the time I’ve been wearing a Pinetime [2] and I now can’t read messages on […]

Server CPU Sockets

I am always looking for ways of increasing the compute power I have at a reasonable price. I am very happy with my HP z840 dual CPU workstation [1] that I’m using as a server and my HP z640 single CPU workstation [2]. Both of them were available second hand at quite reasonable prices and […]