Something like this, perhaps… Nononono, definitely not. Neither an Apple product. My first foray into wearables of the smartwatch type is a Pebble Time. I’d been looking at smartwatches ever ...

In my grand scheme of “abuse all the low-power computing things!”, I’ve moved my crashplan backups over to the Raspberry Pi 2 (rpi2 for short). Installation is relatively painless: download the ins...

The ASUS UX305UA is an ultrabook with the Skylake microarchitecture - the (as of writing) latest iteration in Intel processors. Unfortunately, Skylake support on Linux wasn’t really a granted thing...

… is not really that hard. Just annoying. Since OnePlus’ USB ID is not in the default adb list, you need to add it yourself: echo "0x2a70" >> ~/.android/adb_usb.ini where 0x2a70 is the ide...

I still had an old Mac Mini (model 2,1) - which I bought during a period of experimentation with different operating systems - connected to the TV, running Mac OS X Lion. Not Apple’s finest install...

I’ve had a Google Chromecast (1st</sup> generation</a>) for a while now, connected over WiFi. Works great, although sometimes the wireless reception cuts out, or the signal gets saturat...

I’ve recently acquired some TP-Link ‘Easy Smart’ managed switches - cheap, decently built (metal casing), and a lot of features above the usual unmanaged stuff: Effective network monitoring via...

Back in the day I used to have one router in the house: the D-Link DIR-825, flashed with OpenWRT. Configured with two SSIDs - one for internal network use, and one for guest access - the latter bei...

After the latest lan-party with some friends, where we played a lot of Rocket League, it dawned on me that this game (and numerous others) is probably a lot easier to play with a game controller in...