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Storage Unlock Policy
I currently run my cloud hosts in a manual-intervention-required configuration for storage. Even the VPNs can’t come up until someone connects and provides a key to the hypervisor to unlock storage and start services This is a configuration I intend to continue when setting up…
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Meikee 25W RGB LED Wall Washer Light
The Meikee RGB LED is a weatherproof RGB LED light bar. It includes a 433 MHz radio reciever and an AC zero-crossing sensor, in addition the 3 PWM LED outputs. It’s easy to hook up to all the internal hardware, the RGB outputs are labeled on the…
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Vornado Transom Fan
The Vornado Transom fan is a blower fan designed to mount across the bottom of a hung window. I like the fan hardware. It includes an IR remote, runs at 4 discrete speeds, can be reversed electronically, closes when off, and includes a thermostatic function. I do…
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Guest Room Video System
I have a terrible FireTV in my guest room. If I let it be online it downloads 20+ GB of ads per week, despite no one turning the screen on. So I am going to dumb it down to a simple HDMI monitor and install…
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AFROG Desk Lamp
The AFROG 2th Gen Multifunctional LED Desk Lamp With Wireless Charger is a USB-powered desk lamp with touch controls for cool and warm light options, fine-grained dimming, a sleep timer, wireless charging and a USB-A power port. It has small green and blue LEDs inside the timer…
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esphome
I’ve been writing notes to myself in the readme.me of my esphome repository. I’m going to make posts here instead, where I can leave pictures without putting them into GitHub And maybe other automation things. We’ll see
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Constraining Shapes
I’m thinking of something of a VM map that looks something like this, duplicated at each hosting provider: zCloud Overall hypervisor, installed on the “bare metal” I rent; all other VMs are internal to this hypervisor Does not host any client-facing or VM-facing services. Forwards…
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Hosting
I am thinking about setting up a hosting platform. I want to host my own things. I want to offer free hosting and other online services to people in my community. I would like to sell certain kinds of hosting in support of my tech…
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CUPS – IPP vs. IPPEverywhere
CUPS, the tooling of most printing workflows on UNIX-ish systems including MacOS and many linux distributions, is an archaic, unwieldy, tool. It is also indispensable, at least for the moment IPP is a venerable printing standard that has been around since the 1900s and is…
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Vevor KW-780A
Using the Vevor KW-780A vinyl cutter and plotter on Linux, MacOS, and Windows The Vevor KW-780A speaks the HPGL language. Inkscape is a popular choice for creating vector graphics and can output HPGL directly. Inkscape and other SVG workflows can also be used with a…