As I have spent the last few posts explaining, I recently undertook the task of upgrading my home servers, and it quickly became a very painful process. One of the main purposes of my server is to host my own Nextcloud instance, which my wife and I use as a …
If you've been following along in the previous posts, I recently underwent a major upgrade for my home server system. One big part of that was updating the operating system from Ubuntu 20 to Ubuntu 24.
Before starting this entire process, I had, of course backed up my entire previous …
As I wrote about a few days ago, I recently undertook the task of performing a major systems upgrade of my home server system. Today I wanted to talk about the upgrades and changes to the hardware setup.
Originally, I was running my home services (Nextcloud, Jellyfin, gemini, web servers …
A few years back, I purchased an Owon HDS242 handheld oscilloscope. Being a Linux user, I thought there surely would be some programs that would allow you to interface with this o-scope from your computer, but for the most part, the good stuff seemed to be Windows only.
I did …
It's been a while since I posted, which isn't terribly unusual, but in part it has been due to performing a major systems upgrade on my home servers. I upgraded the operating system from Ubuntu 20 to Ubuntu 24, the Nextcloud from 25 to 30, and had to deal with …
My brother (LibreHacker) and I both run Gemlogs in Gemini space. If you are curious about that, I've written about it on here before, or you can check out websites like: https://geminiprotocol.net/clients.html and https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/geminiprotocol.net/ to get a better idea, but …
Recently, I decided to play around some more with digital modes while mobile, using my Signalink USB device to connect either laptops or cell phones and tablets to my HTX-212 2m transceiver. It is an old radio, so I had to dig around for a manual online to find the …
If you are following along from my previous posts, you know that I have been hacking this "retro game stick" all in wonder console that you plug into the TV and play thousands of games with built in emulators. Technically we met the goal already, which was to get rid …
If you have not read my previous post, I recommend you start there, because this is a multi-post challenge to remove and add games to a "retro game stick" that I bought. Hopefully we will do a few other hacks as well, but we will see how it goes!
Previously …
Recently, I purchased a "Retro game stick" online. For reference, you can find them here with these non affiliate links:
It is a pretty good deal, costing roughly \$40 and it comes with two wireless controllers that look like the original play station controllers …