Continuing the “for fun and profit” journey of setting up my home server with FreeBSD on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M720s SFF. And today, finally, we will do the main part – set up a ZFS pool on real disks, look at working with datasets, encryption, snapshots, and monitoring. All posts in this blog series: FreeBSD:… Read More »
I’ve been a ThinkPad fan for a long time; I really love their entire lineup. Recently, I came across the X200 model, which was manufactured starting in 2008 – I just saw a picture somewhere and really wanted it for my “collection.” Unexpectedly, it was even available for sale in Ukraine, so I bought this… Read More »
Every time I start installing Arch Linux, it’s like a new journey: it seems like nothing much has changed over the years, but every time something new happens. I’ve written about this a lot, and it’s time to write about it again because I bought a new laptop. At first, I was too lazy to… Read More »
What to do when there is no electricity, mobile communication towers are turned off, and you want to watch the outcasts with Ukrainian cats? That’s right – buy yourself a 3/4G modem with an antenna! In addition, the antenna itself does not need power, and the modem can be inserted into an ordinary power bank,… Read More »
This time it became interesting to me – is it possible to somehow save the charge of the laptop battery? Not to say that it discharges quickly, it is enough for 5-6 hours of work, but it will not be too much, especially with the current power outages in Ukraine. Found several utilities, and will… Read More »
The main goal when I was buying a new PC with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti was an ability to play games on Arch Linux without reboots into Windows. For this need to install NVIDIA drivers so Linux will use it instead of nouveau (although I didn’t even try to run any game with nouveau).… Read More »
Have a fresh Arch Linux system setup. After some Viber’s fixes (see the Viber: no connection – qt.network.ssl: Incompatible version of OpenSSL post) – sound system sometimes stops working. It looks like next: run qmmp, press Play and: [simterm] … DecoderMAD: Fixed rate detected DecoderMAD: Total time: 297900 ReplayGain: disabled Dithering: disabled ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1108:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable… Read More »