Category: Hardware / Reviews

check this out: When will Intel & AMD release their first ARM based SoC? “Intel is working on a new SoC (system on a chip) that will compete with the ARM-based designs that have dominated the mobile market for several […]

it’s a two part process: 1. install the drivers (thanks all involved great work 🙂 su – root apt update apt install printer-driver-ptouch 2. install the printer via cups web browser interface http://localhost:631/ or: https://localhost:631/ -> Administration -> Add Printer […]

currently wrestling with a LTE modem, that used to work under Ubuntu, but refuses to work under Debian 11. while true; do echo “=== show modem status:”; mmcli -m 1|grep -e model -e primary -e state -e signal; echo -e […]

So Tuxedo has no direct cooperation with System76 but maybe with this company: as the “TUXEDO InfinityBook S 14 Gen6” = “System76 Lemur Pro” = “CLEVO L141MU” = HYPERBOOK L14 ULTRA” Clevo sub company in Germany, main company in Poland […]

SSD to USB Adapter review + benchmark: asus vs inateck vs Beikell (NOT BELKIN) vs vs the idea: problem: the motherboard has only 2x internal NVMe connectors and on a dual boot system: GNU Linux occupies NVMe0 Windows occupies NVMe1 […]

they are fast, they are small, they use very little energy (less than 30W), the Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p Tiny despite being also pretty old (2012/2013) it still rocks, the naming ain’t sexy, but they work very well. now let’s look […]

let’s face it: the internet has become a gigantic surveillance machine, with hundreds of private companies, trying to collect as much data on the user as possible in order to “predict the market” while also using with AI to analyze […]

Brother HL-5450DN most older laser printers are pretty reliable and can made to work with GNU Linux (if they support App Socket / HP JetDirect (asigned fixed IP to printer and give exact IP)) there is even a firmware update, […]

lancom-systems.de is a major partner of Deutsche Telekom. “Würselen, August 26, 2002 – LANCOM Systems GmbH and Deutsche Telekom AG have agreed to cooperate on the sale of LANCOM Systems products.” https://my.lancom-systems.de/newsroom/presse/archiv/archivansicht/lancom-systems-kooperiert-mit-deutscher-telekom/ that’s how a lot of lancom products end […]

this notebook was premium when released aprox. 2003 it still looks with those LEDs and mic and speaker mini-jacks at the front (it even has a wifi hardware switch on the front (blue LED) the screen and speakers are excellent […]

update: there is indeed a small screw missing from the angle grinder: Ersatzteilinformation: part detailed information: 1603300016 Sachnummer:  1603300016 Beschreibung: Sechskantmutter DIN-Text:  M7, SW10 Preis * 1,04  €* Preisgruppe 11 * Alle Preise inkl. Mehrwertsteuer zzgl. Versandkosten Always say something […]

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 […]

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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 […]