To follow up on my previous blog entry I thought I would give an example of what I have been doing with the Older Tech I buy. I intend to build a low power home lab consisting where possible of older repurposed machines that would perhaps struggle for relevancy in 2025 and possibly otherwise end … Read more
OK, so this is gonna get wordy My intended holiday projects failed due to partially recognised hardware (replacement part has been ordered) and having no vehicle -due to a failed MOT work in progress, ‘stress mode’ was and is still activated. So I decided to look for distractions, things like going out with a friend … Read more
So a while ago at a carboot sale, I picked up 2 Dell Optiplex Micros The first was an i3 3020m with a 4th gen i3 CPU in and 4GB Ram, the other was a G4400T 3040 with 4GB Ram. Its the latter I have been working on with this project. As I am on … Read more
A quick follow up to my previous post So its almost 2130 hours and I have to get up early in the morning, that means its the ideal time to update 3 meshed OpenWRT routers to the latest version right? Oh, just me then? I used the “attended sysupgrade” package to update and keep my … Read more
OpenWrt 24.10 was released on the 6th of February 2025, Great! I thought switching my Cudy WR3000S and 2x Cudy WR3000 routers to OpenWrt would be a great weekend project. For the most part it was. Flashing the firmware was easy enough, first you have to flash Cudy’s intermediate firmware and then flash the official … Read more
So just a quick post as I am currently installing an AMD RX6600 graphics card to my “gaming” machine. Recent kernels have included improvements for AMD CPU’s and GPU’s, Debian stable does not include the latest kernel however in Debian backports you can get a newer Debian safe kernel without adding any non-Debian repository. Debian … Read more
The last time I blogged about Fake SSD’s was here Yesterday, I revisited NewLife (a charity shop- see linked post above) They again had some SSD’s, again there were fake although still somewhat useful. For £7.00 I purchased 3. 1 that claimed to be m.2 and 2 that appeared to be 2.5″ drive caddies. In … Read more
Greetings and salutations everybody! I am hopeful that the below is an accurate account of how I got my current Fediverse instance up and running These instructions assume you have a basic install of Debian without a webserver installed but with sudo, ssh access and ports 80 and 443 open with a domain or subdomain … Read more
I suppose it had to happen at some point. My Pleroma instance has suffered a seemingly unrecoverable PEBKAC issue. After far too much time trying to recover the instance (which I feel some actions may have made it worse not better) I have decided to draw a line under it and move on. I will … Read more
So I arrived back home from the carboot sales and some shopping, after carrying out some household chores I decided to see what the condition of the T440s was in internally. I had expectations that it had already been stripped of anything good, when removed the external battery, it was dirty but in good order, … Read more
While I feel comfortable around Linux, reading ‘man’ entries and troubleshooting issues, I am not too familiar with websites. I usually use flat-file apps and static websites, so WordPress and Apache stuff is pretty new to me, and more than a bit of an upward learning curve. I identified an issue with file uploads – … Read more