Category: NZTekonverse -> Hardware
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Escaping Google’s walled garden on handhelds [1]: Intro
I’ve owned smartphones since 2012 when I was given one as part of a new employment role. It (HTC) was running Windows Phone 7. It was followed by a couple of Nokias running Windows Phone 8 (the later one since updated to 10) and then a low-end Motorola Moto E running Android 4. The next…
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Networking / Wireless with Debian LXQt
There are some issues possible with LXQt if you have Wifi because of limitations in the current Buster install. Some of these may be resolved by the time Buster is released…but not all, for reasons explained below. First issue for Wifi is if the drivers are non-free, as is fairly likely. You’ll notice this at…
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Computing resources optimisation [2G]: Reinstall serverpc and mediapc
As we know when I upgraded everything last month I just put the disks back in with the new boards and just booted everything up and they just ran. I didn’t reinstall either of the two new ones that I currently have running, serverpc and mediapc. However as neither of these computers is able to…
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Computing resources optimisation [2F]: Managing Disk Space Usage
The completion of this computer upgrade project is close to finished. I do have to complete mounting the fourth computer, which is inching along at a glacial pace at the moment, and various small tasks. One of the important ones is that mainpc’s disks which have a total capacity of 1.8 TiB or 2 TB…
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Raspberry Pi [4]: Raspberry Pi vs Chromecast
I last wrote about my Raspberry Pi back in July, and since then it hasn’t been used. I decided against using it to play videos because it had some trouble playing some of the ones in my collection. At this point I went back to playback from a computer, and subsequently pc4 was used for…