Remember when you installed Windows 7 and you saw this shit? Image attribution: WindowsCentral When the EU stopped looking at Microsoft, they removed it. "Microsoft finally ditches… Read More

Note: This article discusses mechanisms for updating the BIOS and Embedded Controller of computers that haven't been made in almost 20 years. Exercise an abundance of caution when attempting to follow,… Read More

Hey guess what! Twitter sucks. It's sucked for years, it's getting worse, and they've just announced the addition of an actual child to their board. Fun… Read More

For reasons of “push button, receive serotonin and electronic gubbins”, I have both the original ODROID Go and the newer Go Advance. I’ll try to give a rundown of the two,… Read More

Hello! I'd like to take a minute here to talk about some fun I've been having with the USB interface for the Paperang P1 and P2 portable thermal printers. Read More

Whoops. Put all that effort into writing a blog platform (which began as a static site generator, then became a quasi-dynamic web app), then neglected to actually write anything… Read More

Note: This post was written when the Let's Encrypt private beta first launched, and most of the tooling related to Let's Encrypt has completely changed since. It… Read More

Just a short post today. Yesterday (Wednesday the 20th), we took our dog to the vet for what we thought was a stomach bug. He's had diabetes since about July of… Read More

While chatting on IRC, someone mentioned that they were having a problem with a process going mental and creating a bunch of file descriptors in linux, eventually hitting the “max FD limit”… Read More

In which I struggle with a GNU utility Read More