Yes, you can decrypt your storage with a picture of your cat.

Turns out that using stable and performant computers as a home server is way too boring for me.

Fedora Linux is a great Linux distribution, but it has a few quirks that can impact your experience. Here’s how to fix them.

Turning a 15-year-old Canon PIXMA MP250 printer into a network printer was much easier than I initially thought.

Not bad for a laptop originally released in 2003.

I’m just as surprised as you are.

It’s a jet engine with an integrated furnace, but at the same time it fits into the Linux compatibility sweet spot. Not great, not terrible.

A short ramble about something I realized over the years with my self-hosting setup.

I got a LattePanda V1 and gave it a go as a Raspberry Pi replacement for my self-hosting setup. Here’s how it went.

I’ve tried out newer laptops before and it was nothing short of a disaster. Is this HP any different, or do I need to go back to my ThinkPad T430 again?

I take a severely underpowered computer and make it do something useful.

Some assembly required. No, not that one.

Sometimes the least technical solutions end up being the ones that I’m the most proud of. This is probably one of them.

I ramble about a tool that is great for taking regular snapshots on the btrfs filesystem.

If you have ever felt frustated with the Bluetooth experience that your ThinkPad T430 offers you, especially after upgrading the WiFi adapter to one that also has Bluetooth capabilities, then this article might help you out.

I took a spare ThinkPad T430 and put all my home server workloads on it. Here’s how it went.

Oh, snap(per)!

Or ‘How to downgrade your CPU at great expense!’

You have probably tried Stack Exchange and reddit at this point, so what do you have to lose?

Depends on your definition of could.