Category: Technology
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Windows 10, laptops, and “don’t turn this display on”
Windows 10 has an option in the advanced display settings to toggle a display (when using multiple displays, like a laptop with an external display) to “Remove display from desktop”. I have my work laptop plugged into two external displays, and for reasons I can’t remember, I have Windows configured to not use the laptop…
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Notes to self: Kubuntu on a USB stick
While I dealt with a mild dose of COVID-19, I wanted a way to have a laptop in bed so I could idly browse, or have it streaming from an online service while I dozed. My work laptops (haven’t returned one of them) both deny any use of USB sticks once Windows has booted, so…
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Building a custom OpenWrt image
K was poking around at Raspberry Pi stuff the other day, and the Pi3 she was using was pretty slow (and unable to run what the book was showing), so I replaced my Pi4 router with an AAEON UP-CHT01 machine that I had on hand. The specs of the CHT01 are roughly: 1.4 GHz Atom…
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American dates and brokerages
Yes, I’m looking at you Schwab. BrokerageStatementDDMMYYACCT.pdf is not a sane filename.
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Running Kubuntu under Hyper-V with xRDP
I’m playing with the latest version of Kubuntu (21.10 as of writing) in a Hyper-V VM to see what the current state of Linux on the Desktop is, and to work out if I want to switch back to running Linux as my main OS (it was my main OS in college, in the early…
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Unifi controller on OpenWRT (on a Pi4)
It turns out that it’s not too hard to get the Unifi Controller software to work on OpenWRT. “Not too hard” is a relative term, mind you. You can’t install it on the base OS, but since OpenWRT provides LXC in the form of “lxc v1”, a container can be set up running something like…