My desktop, the same BlankOn Sinambung box I hardened last week, has one job most evenings: sit there and accept SSH. For a while it did not. Connections would open, then hang, then die with Connec...
My MX Keys Mini (model Y-R0084, printed on the back) has been the daily driver for about two years. Yesterday it stopped working mid-session. No typing, no backlight, nothing. Both machines still l...
BlankOn went quiet for a while, then came back with Sinambung. I spent last night wiping Windows and moving the whole machine over to it. The install itself was uneventful. The fun part started aft...
Goal: play GTA San Andreas (the gtasa_linux PortMaster port) on an Anbernic handheld running RockNIX, and get the classic cheat codes in through the gamepad. No keyboard, no touchscreen cheat menu....
Daily driver: Xiaomi 17 Pro, HyperOS, 16GB RAM, rooted, 140 third-party apps. Quick audit: adb shell su -c 'dumpsys activity processes | grep -c "cached=true"' 100+ cached processes at any time....
My MiTV-MOSR4 (Android 11, Google TV) shipped with 140 packages, and a solid chunk of that was Xiaomi telemetry, an India-region cast app, and a retail demo mode. I cleaned it down to 112 over WiFi...
I stayed at a hotel in Jakarta recently, and the room had the usual Samsung Smart TV lockdown: a welcome screen, a fixed channel list, and no obvious way to use the TV as an actual TV. No source me...
I installed OpenCode on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+. The binary installs, the version prints, and then it silently hangs forever. Here is what actually happened. What I tried 1. Downloaded the ARM64 rele...
My *arr media stack lived in a single Docker container on the Synology NAS for years. One day the container vanished — recreated by the NAS, wiped clean. The good news: all the persistent data (con...
When I got the LS486 running again, it was running bare. No heatsink, nothing on the processor at all. It POSTed, it sat in the BIOS quite happily, and it was easy to forget that a 100 MHz 486 actu...