Musk quotes from Paris Lex Fridman… somewhere seen before… dangerous & boring work will become “optional” obviously will require universal income to compensate this jobloss (Kai Fu Lee is more afraid of the uprising of the unemployed than killer robots, […]
IDE, SCSI, SATA, SAS now U.2 M.2… these drives are called: “U.2 PCIe NVMe” no kidding, search for em on ebay. that reminds of… “the usb cable chaos” has arrived with “Slim SAS” for another round of mass cable connector confusion […]
can smart phone cameras compete with the “big” ones with big lenses? please support this Open Source, Tech & Privacy dedicated blog 😀 by buying from Amazon Affiliated links: Get the amazing Samsung S21 Ultra 5G with 10x times optical […]
Lenovo Ideapad: What is it and can it run Debian? hint: it’s also not mine. The Lenovo Ideapad is a “notebook-tablet” (a very slim notebook that pretends to be a tablet (it has a touch screen!) 🙂 can it […]
actually wanted give this printer to (still) windows user, then realizing… there is no f*** chance to install drivers within windows 10 for this elderly but just printing damn fine reliable black and white laser printer from brother, so… USB […]
because Win 10 compared to Win 7 is incredibly slow, a way to upgrade an older ASUS Mainboard was found RAM was increased from 8 GB to 32 GB it actually had an M.2 slot for the MZ-V8P500BW NVMe SSD […]
Motorola, Apple, Samsung, and now even Fairphone 4: NO 3.5mm headphone jack!!! For the audio junkies among us, this is a no go. Was so looking forward to the Fairphone, but will probably use a phone with audio jack as […]
inxi – Command line system information script for console and IRC DESCRIPTION It is also used a debugging tool for forum technical support to quickly ascertain users’ system configurations and hardware. inxi shows system hardware, CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop, Kernel, […]
update: 2022-12 wow 3 and 4nm is very very small “TSMC recently announced that it is upping its U.S. investment in Arizona to US$40 billion (NT$1.23 trillion) and will manufacture 4nm and 3nm chips there. The 4nm chips are expected […]
the positive vision (always start with something positive) if big data about every keystroke every step we make (the police: every step you make) algorithms determine how mankind will live and thus: technology is “neutral” until it is used for […]
the specs CPU Allwinner A20,32 Bit Cortex™-A7 2-Core 1G GPU ARM® Mali400MP2 -> get the GPU going SDRAM 1GB DDR3 (shared with GPU) 432Mhz Storage “SD Card up to 64GB (SDXC) 1 SATA up to 2TB “ Network 4x Gigabit […]
raid10 combines the speed of raid0 with the resilience of raid1. watch out: shingled hdd are not good for RAID! setup of GNU Linux mdadm software RAID10 is actually pretty straight forward: no need to do any partitioning. # tested […]
first off the praise: kvm-qemu is a high performance nicely scriptable virtualization system if it works, it can do pretty things 🙂 IN CONTRAST TO iESXI SH** WARE CLONING A VM IS A EASY AS: virt-clone –original debian12 –name debian12-clone […]
how to fix stuck permanent function (Fn) key BIOS / Firmware updates: but why? if everything works, vendors often say “leave it like that” because updates can have unforseen sideeffects and not all computers are “exactly” the same X-D (a […]
Wifi Modes of an Access point: DLink has painted a nice overview over the possible different modes of an Accesspoint: cybersec: from great wifi modes that allow bridging two wifi networks, it would be GREAT if vendors test their products […]
Reset Basisstationen ein Reset der Basisstation bewirkt Folgendes: die Einstellungen sind im Lieferzustand die PIN lautet “0000” alle Mobilteile sind abgemeldet SIEMENS Gigaset 1010, 1015, 2010, 2015, 2011, 2016 (ausser 2016 plus) sowie baugleiche Telekom Sinus 43 und 44: Trennen […]
in short: humans per default, without an education might just be “better” apes. Some parts of mankind behave very primitive and clearly show no signs of higher intelligence or education. The troubles start, when the tools become more and more […]
in case the user needs a case: Open source hardware board that runs GNU Linux and Android. Entirely designed with open source software CAD tools. There are six variants: A64-OLinuXino-1G with 1GB RAM but NO flash and NO WiFi/BLE connectivity A64-OLinuXino-1Ge16GW […]
can not recommend! the connection works (benchmark results below) the major problem is: unable to disable DHCP! which means: whenever there is a disconnect from the uplink (DHCP lost) the DHCP of the TL-WPA4220KIT will “kick in” and assign completely […]
EDIMAX EW-7612UAn V2 THE ONLY (?) GNU Linux WIFI WLAN Adapter that works OUT OF THE BOX on all GNU Linux systems (ODROID RASPBERRY AND Desktop GNU Linux) How to created multiple Wifi AccessPoints connecting (WDS Wifi Bridge) to one […]
UPDATE: 2022 may have to appoligize to HighPoint and ALTERNATE, as other RAID systems such as the AMD RAIDXpert2 based systems (same concept) are also STALLING during ATTO Disk Benchmark in Direct I/O mode. So the ATTO Benchmark MIGHT be […]
it sounds crazy but… as machines as cars and tractors become more complicated and computerized not only are their parts DELIBERATELY designed to break after a certain time (planned obsolescence) (in order to sell more spare parts, make more profit) […]
long story… good alternative? https://minidvblinux.de/ having had various frustrating experiences with the topic: TV + PC (even tried a cheap DreamBox 520 HD from eBay… which are probably good devices, but this one turned out to be faulty/unstable) now… in […]
IBM’s first 2nm transistor could lead to CPUs with +45% better performance, or -75% lower energy use compared to 7nm chips in and round about 2024 / 2025 (according to IBM interview Bloomberg) IBM achieved this with International Business Machines […]
Apple: from RISC CPU (PowerPC) to CISC CPU (x86 Intel) back to RISC CPU (ARM) what is the difference? short version: CISC CPUs (usually need more energy) have more instruction sets, for example: model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU […]
NVIDIA = games + servers? yes NVIDIA servers! NVIDIA wants to become the “NetFlix of gaming” streaming screen output of games (actually running on their servers via GeForce NOW) on Tablets and SmartPhones but not only that… since BitCoin & […]
always say something positive first: FritzBoxes are great (DSL/LTE/…) internet routers (up to now) all FritzBoxes work with 12V DC (which is great for usage with small solar power stations (that are usually 12V based)) high quality & reliable secure […]
this is another episode of “GNU Linux saves old hardware from the dumpster” the good: IT JUST WORKS 🙂 the onboard GPU can actually display the full resolution of a 19″ display (1920×1080) of the Gnome2 MATE Desktop the bad: […]
can it run GNU Linux Debian 10 (64Bit)? yes it can! what used to be aWindows XP box is now running very latest FREE version Debian, thus allowing to run latest Firefox and latest Thunderbird 🙂 (to stay up to […]
self made Flat Roof mount: 25kg Steel Plate hope it will survive the next storm… (maybe need to place additional weight on it) How to get StarLink Support: only via the iOS and Android App update: now starlink support is […]