Category: Hardware
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SteamDeck Internal Screen Undetected
A strange thing happened recently where my son’s SteamDeck was not detecting the internal screen. I tried all the usual, “hold the power button down for 30 seconds” bit and even tried my touchscreen fix routine, all without any success. This was exceedingly irritating as I am not sure what even caused this to happen.…
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20 Years of Linux | Blathering
The author reflects on two decades of using Linux, starting with Mandrake Linux in 2003 and evolving through various machines, including laptops from Dell and HP. The journey highlights personal growth, nostalgia, and ongoing challenges in the Linux ecosystem, particularly regarding software support, user accessibility, and community dynamics.
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Dell Chromebook 11 3120 (Candy) with openSUSE Tumbleweed
Some years back, I bought this Dell Chromebook 11 (Candy) on eBay for no more than $80 in 2017, I think, to test out using a smart card on ChromeOS with sites that require such things. After that, I experimented using Crouton on it to run Ubuntu in a CHROOT sort of wrapper but it…
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Hardware failure on IPFire | Blathering
As I was getting ready to call it quits for the day, relax and watch something nerdy on YouTube when I had a catastrophic hardware failure on my IP fire router, firewall system. I didn’t actually know it was the router that failed until I went through all my other checks first. This is a…
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8BitDo C64 Edition Mechanical Keyboard
There are not many new things that really grip my attention but this, with its warm, welcoming beige aesthetic and leanings to the Commodore 64 look and feel along with the modern improvements in mechanical switches is a perfect marriage of traditional look with modern enhancements. At the time of writing, this keyboard is only…
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Steam Games Using the Discrete AMD GPU on Haswell Laptop
I have a couple of, now older, 4th Generation Intel, Haswell, Dell Latitude E6x40 machines that have discreet AMD GPUs. These laptops are going on 10 years old and truly at end of life in a modern sense but I just can’t let these machines go. They are some of the nicest laptops I have…
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Framework 13 | Best Laptop Yet
The Framework 13 is the best laptop I have used to date. This is my my main computer I use for the last nine months, day in and day out at home, the office and traveling domestically as well as internationally. It runs openSUSE Tumbleweed perfectly which makes my digital living on this machine as…
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Microsoft Teams Rooms The Easy Way with Logitech Tap Controller and Shure STEM Ceiling Microphone
This particular article is targeting a Microsoft Administrator or IT technician who is tasked with building a Teams Conference room. I am not naturally a Microsoft Administrator and after successfully accomplishing building a simple to use, appliance like, Microsoft Team conference room for an enterprise environment. I was compelled to publish this process because it…
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LG DualUp Monitor Plus USB-C Dock Station
Monitors are getting Crazy Cool I am not sure if it is crazy or cool or some sort of mix of crazy and cool or maybe it is completely innovative and 100% practical. I happen to think some of these monitors are neat and on top of that list today is this, the LG DualUp…
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RAD Expansion Unit for the Commodore 64
For anyone that has known anything about “CubicleNate” for any period of time will know that I am a huge fan of all things Commodore 64. Maybe not everything but most things, I absolutely am. I am also a fan of open source and the communities that have developed around it. When you combine open…