My name is Jason. This is the stuff that I do.
My History with Linux, and Linux’s History with Hardware I’ve been dabbling in the world of Linux for a long time. My first experience with Linux was in 1997/1998 with the release of RedHat 5.0. That was the first Linux distribution I saw for sale in a retail setting. It came with both 3.5″ floppy…
A few years ago I stepped in to the world of NVME storage on my primary laptop. Not shortly after, I built a desktop whose OS/boot drive was also NVME. The difference between NVME and SATA-based SSD is night and day. In addition to being silent (which is a plus over spinning disk), boot times…
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A Brief History I could write a book about the history of NEXT, but I fear this tutorial will be long enough as it is. As brief as possible – NEXT was the company that Steve Jobs founded after he was booted from Apple in the 80’s. NEXT made some awesome hardware, but even better…
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This post will serve as an ongoing personal notes section as I migrate my daily driver desktop to Debian 9. As I have issues with the OS, I will post fixes here. I hope that if you found this, it helps you out. Add the sudo Command (If it Doesn’t Exist) Upon completing the install,…
Pi Zero W Introduction The Raspberry Pi Zero W is an upgraded version of the old Pi Zero, and now comes with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi built in. Unfortunately, the built-in Wi-Fi adapter does not support monitor mode or packet injection (by default – we can fix that!), but all is not lost because external USB…
To complete this project you’ll need the following: Raspberry Pi (preferably model 2 or 3) Power supply for the Raspberry Pi HDMI cable and a monitor USB keyboard and mouse USB gamepad or joystick is highly recommended Micro SD card that’s at least 4GB in size, although 8GB or larger would be preferable USB flash…
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Like a lot of things, macOS is a little different when it comes to making a bootable USB drive from an ISO file. The dd command in macOS is similar to the Linux dd command, but macOS wants the ISO file to be in IMG format before you can write it to the USB drive,…
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Another year another laptop. Anyone who knows me knows that I change electronic devices like I change my clothes. I’ve jumped back and forth between a daily driver Macbook Pro and a daily driver Windows machine for years now. I was just coming off of a 2017 Macbook Pro 13 that I recently sold, and…
