IKEA Trådfri vs. Amazon Eero Zigbee Smart Home Hub
The Amazon Eero 6 has a built-in Zigbee smart home hub, so in theory, you could eliminate the need for a separate hub / bridge / gateway / whatever, such… Read more »
Author Archives: noobient
How to fix PHEVs
Foreword The word is out that essentially, the EU wants to kill plug-in hybrids (PHEVs). The rationale is that PHEVs aren’t clean enough, since apparently most owners don’t charge their… Read more »
VPN Server for Diablo II: Resurrected TCP/IP Play
Foreword The younger ones probably can’t even imagine life without internet, but back in the day, most of us didn’t have it. And thus LAN parties were born. And that’s… Read more »
Playing Killing Floor 2 Classic
No copyright and/or trademark infringement intended. Should any concern arise with me doing this, please do get in touch, I mean no harm to anyone or anything. I take no… Read more »
Ubuntu LUKS automatic unlock using Tang @ EdgeRouter
Update: For security reasons, I no longer provide the repo. Please build the packages yourself. LUKS is the Full Disk Encryption (FDE) method to go on Linux. At least that’s… Read more »
What went wrong with Killing Floor 2
Humble beginnings Guys, you’re in for a long ride, so brace yourselves. Let’s start with who I am in regards to KF2: I bought the game in the summer of… Read more »
MIPS Cross Compilation Crash Course
Preamble I just realized: the title can be shortened to CCCC lol. Well anyway, the whole world is going apeshit about ARM, but who takes care of poor MIPS? Maybe… Read more »
Fixing Active Directory domain joins on Ubuntu 18.04 after KB4586830
We use Noobuntu for enrolling Linux clients in our AD environment. This week we applied the following updates on our DCs: KB4586830 KB890830 KB4576750 The latter 2 don’t have any… Read more »
watchOS 7 limits media storage to 8 GB
Here’s the lovely message I’m getting since upgrading my Apple Watch 5 Series to watchOS 7: Out of Media Storage The storage space dedicated to media on your Apple Watch… Read more »
Why I’m still not a Strava subscriber
The Strava founders just posted a letter to the community about their financial situation. Since Strava’s been my primary tracking app/site for a while now, I defnitely want to support… Read more »