What is red, yellow, and controls your house?? A Home Assistant Yellow Kit with a Raspberry Pi CM5! The shift away from data collecting corporations continues!
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So I noticed that some of the keys on my Dell XPS 13 9310 (from 2020, not the 2 in 1) were misbehaving. Actually, they are misbehaving as I write this post. Anyway, I’m happy to announce that I was able to look up the details on replacing the keyboard (sadly the keyboard and palm rest are one unit) and picked up a replacement (listed as new) off of Ebay. It won’t be the easiest replacement I’ve done (loooooots of screws) but yay for right to repair!
I’m 95% there in pressing the purchase button for a used Pixel 7a from Swappa so I can install GrapheneOS and have some piece of mind that even if Mr. Cook bends the knee to the Trump administration my data will be protected. Going to sleep on it but after seeing Mr. Cook at the inauguration with the other boot lickers my trust in Apple and their encryption is pretty much shattered.
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Sorry to anyone who was hit with any alerts about posts changing. I just finished a migration, that started yesterday, between hosters and finally got all of the content fixed a little bit ago. Hopefully it didn’t blast anyone’s alerts.
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Another series I reread over the holidays was How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom by Dojyomaru. I can’t count how many times I’ve read this story. I’m kind of bummed that the story is down to just two more books but I’m also excited to actually get to read them. The next volume comes out in March I believe. Thank you, Dojyomaru, for an awesome series!
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Updated darthmole.com to now redirect to madmolelabs.com/iamdarthmole which also updates the Darth Mole website. DarthMole.com was all my gaming related information in a basic static page. MadMoleLabs.com/IAmDarthMole is also my gaming related information, but is part of my new WordPress setup.
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I got to swing by heaven on earth today: Micro Center over in Parkville, MD (https://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/parkville.aspx). The store was HOPPIN’ so I didn’t get a picture to share my celebration. Picked up some equipment for my home lab upgrade. Thanks for being awesome Micro Center!
Just finished re-bingeing both Rosario + Vampire manga series! Thank you Akihisa Ikeda for such a fun story!
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Reblog via Quinn Nelson (@snazzyq@mas.to)
I don’t know of any iOS update more hated by normal people than the iOS 18 Photos app redesign.
Reblog via Nick @ The Linux Experiment
I’ve been using the #Framework laptop 16 for about a month, and it’s almost the perfect #Linux laptop!
Here are my conclusions: