Author: Yeri Tiete
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Ideal travel router: GL-AR750S
Right. With the pandemic and all none of us are going to travel much but still… About a year ago I purchased myself an OpenWRT router to use on the plane and in hotels. And so far I really like both the device and the Hong Kong based brand (launching new and updated products, and…
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Raspberry Pi 4 + SSD
All right. With the release of the new RPi4 with 8Gb of RAM I had to get myself one to see if it was already a viable desktop replacement for surfing and emails. While a SD card works fine for certain tasks (things that don’t require a lot of IO) — for a desktop that’s…
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iPad Pro USB-C Ethernet
I’ve had an iPad Pro with the new Magic Keyboard and one of the things I’ve been wondering… Say I am stuck in a datacenter and I need to ssh through wired networking to a server — sure I’ll definitely rather use my Mac laptop, but just in case… But would it actually work? The…
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Synology “Operation Failed” manually updating package
Resilio Sync released an update last week and on Synology these package don’t auto update. Time to manually update the packages again. On my DS1515 (more RAM, more CPU) the manual update goes by fine (stop service, manual update, browse for file, upload, start service) but my DS216j, not so much. Attempting to upload the…
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0x04
Almost 10 years after I registered 0x04.com, it’s time to part ways. Yesterday I finalised the sale of 0x04.com. My company in Singapore was called 0x04 pte. ltd. and to avoid any confusion I’ve renamed to su1 pte. ltd. su1 standing for Superuser.one. 🤷♂️
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NextDNS, EdgeOS and device names
Noticed that NextDNS was reporting old hostnames in the logs. For example old device names (devices that changed hostnames), devices that were definitely no longer on the network, or IPs that were matched to the wrong hostnames. The culprit is how EdgeOS deals with its hosts file. Basically it just keeps all the old hosts…
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Air purifier
I live in Singapore. And haze is a thing. Thanks Indonesia and burning rain forests to create palm plantations. Needless to say, so far 2019 and 2020 haven’t been great. Anyhow I got myself a Novita air purifier ~2 years ago, and I stole received a Xiaomi purifier from Liyun. The Novita is pretty dumb…
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Running WireGuard in a Docker container (RPi)
This follows the my two other posts about WireGuard. Most of this can be copied from the amd64 post — with a minor change for making it work on RPi4. This is the full git repo (including both rpi and amd64). The main difference is in the run.sh file. The installation is a bit different…
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HSBC
This is a rant. I’ve dealt with quite a few (bad) banks over the course of my life across countries and businesses. And I think HSBC is one of the worst. For various reasons. But mostly for being stuck in another century. And you’d expect a tiny (Belgian) bank to be horrible. Not one of…
