I’ve always wanted to get rid of my installer USBs! Ventoy is great and everyone should have a recovery stick available!

I got an abandoned, rusted, rotten Ender-3 a while back. It was water logged in a friend’s basement. Now it’s time to clean it up and upgrade.

I recently have been on the search for a new Wi-Fi AP.
My by now ancient TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v3.0 needs a replacement.

The OpenWrt One

If you were sent this site, don’t be mad!
This is all my knowledge on the Communication Systems Course offered at my University (some stuff has been redacted by the author).

I recently had a catastrophic failure. My printer ran out of filament, and the nozzle was pretending to purge plastic midair.

It is time to install the new 32-bit controller board. Installing it in the old chassis should be straight forward!

My Extruder is a little f***ed up. Let’s fix it.

The CR-10 has had 1 (one) Firmware update done to it since I’ve owned it. I once compiled a new Marlin 1.X Version to it. At time of writing, current version is 2.1.2.4.

The stock Hotend has done an incredible job.
I’ve only ever printed PLA and PETG, so no surprise. Over its entire lifespan it only chocked on Filament impurities once.

I am currently in the middle of upgrading my ancient Creality CR-10. A good printer at the time (circa 2016) missing modern quality of life features. I first toyed with the idea of building a Voron, see this as a learning prerequisite.

Ever had a Linux system hang? Fear not! For there is a way to shut it down gracefully!

In September 2021, I bought a cheap HP x24C. A curved 24" 144Hz 1080p Monitor, which supports Freesync. I mainly went for this one because my main display is 144Hz as well, and having the same refresh rate on all displays causes less problems.

So what does this have to do with tech?
Very little, actually. But in the same way I’m bettering myself with cleaner and more open source computing, It became time to do something about my thick bones.

Since my NAS/server has been built ~3 years ago, It has probably encountered close to 100 “unscheduled reboots”.

I needed to manually fix ~10 corrupted files, which TrueNAS could not fix.

While Wind*ws was pretty straight forward to setup for good audio quality, Linux left some things to be desired.

I was recently contracted to fix a one-of-a-kind HiFi DAC. As you may know, the A in A18 stands for AKM. It uses the AK4499.

QMK and VIA, are awesome pieces of firmware for your keyboard.
They enable crazy shortcuts, programmable keys, macros and much more.

A friend came to me with a broken Samsung Galaxy S4, its screen would never turn on, but it was reacting to receiving charge and being plugged into the computer. That friend wanted to recover all data on that phone. Too bad android does not auto mount storage when plugged in.

3 years ago, I set out to replace my Logitech G910, with close to the best thing available.

I am talking about the only good way of being Lazy.
Where a reasonable time investment now, will save a lot of work in the future.

A hearty and very filling tuna noodle casserole.

For my first couple of weeks on Manjaro, back at the start of 2022, I had a lot of freezes. While there are a lot of things that can cause freezes, on my specific hardware it was easy to track down the issue.

Roman: I’m mostly keeping this here as a reference for myself on how to write rich articles.