Author: Tomi
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Replacing the original air duct and a fan on 3D printer (Sovol SV06)
Replacing the original air duct and a fan on 3D printer (Sovol SV06) If you’re reading this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. It started with this ‘blob of death’. I was printing with nylon, when it happened. Nylon…
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Make Glances run automatically after Raspberry Pi reboot
Run Glances at RBPI startup If you’re reading this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. In my previous post, I struggled to run glances on my Raspberry Pi Zero W. After a first reboot I stared to my Home…
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Monitoring RBPi with Glances & Home Assistant in 2024
Monitoring RBPi with Glances & Home Assistant in 2024 If you’re reading this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. Few years ago (2019?) it was like: And voila, I could monitor CPU, disk etc. of my Raspberry remotely via…
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OS/2 nostalgia
It has been … how long? 25 years? Probably. I’ve been in love with OS/2 in one of my previous lives. While everybody around me praised and used Windows 95 at that time, I stubbornly stuck to OS2 Warp 4.0. It ran Windows and DOS apps better than Win and DOS. The best thing was…
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Selfhosting – ductape and sticks all the way down
#selfhosting is a beautiful thing because of the one and only reason: when I decide, I can just turn off that old laptop(s) that is(are) cosplaying servers and I’m gone from the internet. Ok, probably my content will remain on Internet Archive. Scrapers also scraped my content so… my dissapearance is probably just an illusion,…
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Waking up the screen of FireHD tablet using YAKK app
If you read this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. I replaced my current setup of waking up the #FireHD (#HomeAssistant dashboard). A while ago I complained about issues related to waking up the FireHD tablet screen when I…
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Who’s on my network?
(#WatchYourLAN) If you read this on fediverse and the layout is off, here’s the link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. The problem: I’m just curious what is connected to my home network, because it’s over 30 devices. Some have static IPs, some dynamic. I don’t recognize devices by…
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E-ink info screen at the front door
So I built a small E-ink (ESP32) info screen for the front door. Link to the original blog post with a nice text & pictures layout. The problem: When leaving the house, it’s nice to see some information displayed at the door, like temperatures, weather and messages for the kids etc. Actually, there is no…
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Switching from Chrome to Firefox browser in 2024
TL;DR: the switch from #chrome to #firefox browser was not as straightforward as my morning underpants change routine (for my specific use case). It took me several days to set it up. And I didn’t succeed fully. Mostly because of profiles and sync f***ery. The purpose of this post is not to badmouth Firefox, just…
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Solved: HA network (VirtualBox) won’t reconnect after a power loss
Solved: HA network (VirtualBox) won’t reconnect after a power loss Link to the original blog post with a nice text/pictures layout. Problem: I run #homeassistant as a virtual machine on an old laptop, that runs #Linux #Mint, that runs #VirtualBox. Yeah, I know the setup is far from perfect, but it works perfectly until it…