Maybe it’s nostalgia, maybe it’s the insultingly high price of modern PC parts, but I found myself pulling an old original Xbox out of storage to have a play with. Since I’m a geek, I was immediately more interested in hacking and moding the thing instead of playing actual games on it. I’ve documented the process purely so I can look back to check what I did. Maybe it’ll help you too.
Add some clicky clicky to your CLI programs.
Teaching Time Machine moderation in eating disk space.
Why 16? You can’t tell me what to do, aria2c devs!
Escaping Matt Mullenweg’s grasp.
Point to point WiFi bridges, not just for connecting commercial office buildings?
bindicator noun A light that indicates when to put your bins out. Shaped like a bin.
Making my SSD calm it’s farm.
Wish half of your Mac’s function row wasn’t useless?
Getting temperatures out of OmniOS / Illumos
Federal Labor have submitted the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024. Where the fuck did this come from?
My HDMI output on Pop!_OS wouldn’t wake up. Instead of fixing it, let’s work around it.
Taking my home DNS server to the next level by encrypting all the things!
Do you ever feel like you have a strong connection with a guy but suddenly they ghost you? My Asus router knows how you feel.
Leopold Aschenbrenner has an essay/manifesto describing the future of AI. I came across it when it was used on hacker news as a source of why AGI is definitely going to be real and soon. It’s the most insane, self serving, evil take on AIs I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop thinking about how much I disagree that I’m writing this to hopefully get it out of my head.