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The Mevo Ethernet Power Adapter & Alternatives
In this post, I will explore what is the ethernet chip in the official Mevo Start Ethernet Power Adapter, as well as what other USB-C ethernet adapters that I have are compatible with the Mevo Start as well as what ethernet chip is in them.
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Powering a Pepper Grinder
This was a summer project with my son David and myself.
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View up the stairs
Often when I go up the stairs, this is what I see: The last post of the banister was turned into a scratching post for Bob.
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Exposing Privileged Ports with Podman
On Unix-like systems, ports below 1024 are considered privileged, meaning that only the root user can bind to them. Web servers traditionally listen on port 80 for HTTP and port 443 for HTTPS. A key innovation of Podman is not running containers as root to enhance security. This presents challenges when containers need to use…
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eBike
In 2021 I purchased the 27.5″ 48v 500w Ancheer branded ebike from Amazon \for $1200. I found a new listing from Ancheer for what looks like the same bike but now only $400. I thought it would be worth sharing my thoughts on the one I bought.
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Talk on Gameboy Development
In August I gave a quick talk on Gameboy development. Here it is below:
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Ripping PS2 discs
Optical media won’t last forever. I’ve already had a bunch of music CDs and GameCube games rot away on me and be lost. To guard against that, I am attempting to back up as much of my media as possible. On the topic of ripping disc based media, Redump.org is great for providing reference hashs…
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SSH to an outdated server.
I needed to power on and turn on a server that had been off for 8 years to check for some missing data. Of course, security standards have advanced (and that server probably wasn’t up to date when turned off), and SSH from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS would no longer connect to the old server. Step…