7 watts idle on Intel 12th/13th gen: the foundation for building a low power server/NASMaybe a poem will help remember complicated power-saving settings for SSDs. Here goes. “ALPM for SATA, not N-V-M-e. The latter needs ASPM, and A-P-S-T”. Hallmark, here I come. And hey, while we’re on the topic of low power consumption… |
Quick Bits: Enabling hotlink protection for S3 on AWSWe’ll wrangle S3 into a pseudo-webserver yet! |
Curbing the “gas guzzling” tendencies of AMD Radeon Multi-MonitorTriple your computer’s idle power consumption by installing an AMD Radeon video card! And by “triple”, I might mean “quintuple”. After all, why should your computer sip 11 watts running Notepad.exe when it could be a 54 watt space heater running Notepad.exe? |
Once again – macOS themes for the Windows TerminalAt one time it seemed like Windows was terminally ill, but now it’s alive and kicking with a Windows Terminal. In any case, since Windows 11 has started to copy the macOS center dock, I think we should start to copy the macOS terminal themes. |
Oiling up the buzzing fans on the Zotac GeForce 1660 SUPERJust when you were starting to worry about all the plastic GPU fans going to landfills, “big oil” swoops in to save the day! |
Garden time! Checking out the relatively small Opulent 2-in-1 grow tentPutting tomato seedlings by the window sill and watching them grow leggy until they die has become passé. |
Temporary Post: Alarameth TDIf you came here via Steam looking for Alarameth TD and missed the direct link in the announcement, it can be found at https://mattgadient.com/alarameth-td/ |
Dirty code hacks: removing partitions from nmonA little code hack to prevent “nmon” from displaying disk partitions. |
Matt’s geolocation, anycast, and server location notesAiming for low latency: Notes I made while setting up an Anycast + Geolocation + Latency Based Routing configuration for worldwide traffic. |
Don’t you go dying on me! Modding the TP-Link Archer C7 (v5) (AC1750)Making sure the new router will work cool and reliably for years. |
8 port SATA on a PCIE 1x lane! Looking at the PCE8SAT-M01 expansion card.Trying to find an 8 port SATA card that ran on a PCIE x1 slot didn’t result in many options. Fortunately, the lowest-cost option seems to work pretty well! |
Modding the Olmaster MR-8802 (5.25 to 3.5/2.5-inch bay adapter) to hold four 15mm drivesIt’s surprising how difficult it is to find a 5.25″ adapter that lets me jam four 15mm 2.5″ drives in it. Also surprising: how long it’s been since I intentionally melted plastic with a soldering iron. |
Bigger shucks! Shucking the Seagate Backup Plus 10TB (STEL1000400 – ST10000DM0004)Buying external hard drives is kind of like buying *internal* hard drives except you can often save upwards of $100. Also you get a free enclosure for your old hard drive. |
Cheap Ink: The Canon Pixma G6020 – My Early ImpressionsGone are the days of buying 10 printers on Black Friday, pulling the ink out, and leaving the printers themselves by the dumpster! |
9w idle: creating a low power home NAS / file server with 4 storage drivesPutting together a NAS with low power draw, and thus low operating costs. |
How To: Resetting the ink absorber pad on the Brother MFC-J995DWUsually I tape reset instructions for Brother printers to the printer. This one is a little more complex, so I took some pictures. |
Brother MFC-J995DW: why not Canon or Epson (reviewish)One of the reasons I want a printer to last a long time is that comparing printers *takes* a long time! This time I ended up with a Brother inkjet! |
Fixing SSH hanging on VPS restart (OpenVZ/Ubuntu)One of the (few) benefits of OpenVZ is that your instances reboot very fast which can make for a quick workflow… unless of course reboots hang your terminal window. |
A quick look at the Stellar Labs 32-2476 Hi-VHF Deep Fringe AntennaUHF for the fringe? Lots of options! Hi-VHF for the fringe? Well, there’s Stellar Labs…! |
Quick/dirty 4″ duct fan mod: increasing the pressureSometimes the best way to find out how well X will work is to give X a try and see! |