Category: Hardware
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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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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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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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Resilio Sync on Synology stuck?
The Resilio Sync package that’s provided on a Synology NAS’ Packager Center is out of date (2.6.2) and has a bug that causes big files to fail to sync (and that causes a loop of endless retries). The solution is to manually update the package from 2.6.2 to 2.6.4. Find your NAS architecture and then…
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Where to fly your drone
Now that I own a DJI Spark … Singapore: flywhere.sg. World (not very detailed): foxnomad.com/2017/07/25/map-shows-drone-laws-every-country-world-updated-regularly And also embedded here:
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Edgerouter IPsec tunnel to Fritzbox
So, I have an EdgeRouter Lite in Singapore (Starhub) and a FritzBox in Belgium (EDPnet). This is mostly stuff that I have found from several articles, mostly from here. ERL: eth0 is WAN, eth1 (10.60.111.0/24) and eth2 (unused, not VPN’ed) are LAN FritzBoz: 192.168.1.0/24 This is the FritzBox config (go to VPN and them Import…
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Yard Sale: Macbook Pro late 2013
For sale due to getting a portable Macbook: Late 2013 Macbook Pro (15.4″ Retina) 2.3Ghz i7 (quad core + Hyper-Threading) 16Gb RAM 512Gb SSD Intel Iris onboard GFX + Nvidia GeForce GT 750M PCE GFX BE-Azerty keyboard €2445,41 in 28 October 2013 SUPER fast Minor scratch in the back of the LCD Minor (not very noticeable) corrosion…
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Shenzhen
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Yard Sale: Nexus 6
Nexus 6 Details New device from end of September (used for one month; I’ve owned a N6 for a longer time, but due to a battery problem, Google swapped it for a brand new device; then I swapped to a Nexus 6P) Midnight Blue edition 64Gb 4G and stuff (side note: reception & signal is…
