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At some point my Dad came into possession of a Mac 128k. I don't remember ever seeing him use it, it just seemed to appear in my parent's basement at some point. I remember trying to power it on 10-15 years ago, saw the "Sad Mac" screen and gave up quickly.

Fast forward to now, I discovered this old …

Update: A really good alternative to this is to use the WG Tunnel Android App. It has functionality to change tunnels depending on what network you're connected to and in my experience is 3-4x faster than the stock WG client. You can visit their GitHub here:
https://github.com/zaneschepke/wgtunnel

For various reasons …

Update Spring 2025

Bell has made changes and the WAN IPTV VLAN, TV STB VLAN, IGMP proxy, policy routing and associated NAT/firewall rules are no longer required if you have a VIP7802 / Android TV box. In my case, the TV box works when connected to the LAN network now.

This may not be the case if you have an older non …

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I recently replaced the batteries in my APC SMT3000RM2U UPS and decided it would be a good idea to update the firmware as I barely got 3 years out of the previous set. I thought maybe APC may have changed the charging algorithm or something and thought it was worth a shot...

After discovering my device was a …

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The BM6 battery monitor is an inexpensive BLE battery monitor designed to be installed on a 12v battery such as one commonly found in cars. The intended way to interact with this device is via a smartphone app provided by the manufacturer. This app is invasive and sends data such as phone specifications, …

Update: This seems like this may be related to a bug in libvirt. You can still use the below instructions as a workaround until that gets fixed and the new version of libvirt is available in your distro. You can see the bug details here: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/631

When using storage pool volumes in …

I've recently moved from VMware to KVM for my home virtualization needs and ran into an issue. When using Cockpit or virt-manager to view a VM console I'd sometimes get the error message "Display output is not active".

This is related to the default video card Cockpit configures for a new VM (virtio). …

After restoring your TrueNAS Scale configuration to a new system you may encounter the following error on the console:

1The web interface could not be accessed.
2Please check network configuration.

This is due to the new system not having the same NIC/MAC address so TrueNAS doesn't know how to map it's existing IP …

Disclaimer

This device has dangerous voltage present when plugged in. Additionally, if the device has been plugged in to AC power, the capacitors on board can potentially hold a lethal voltage for some time. Under no circumstances should you ever operate this device without the case or attempt to flash it while plugged …