#linux

• 09 Apr 20261000

  Pulling Google Takeout straight to a NAS

  I’ve been having a bit of a think about data I’ve left entirely in someone else’s hands. Specifically Google Photos, which has photos going back to 2011 and no local...

• 23 Feb 20261011

  Building a Home NAS from Mostly Spare Parts

  I’ve had a SNUNMU GK3 mini-PC kicking about since early-2023, barely used. An impulse buy that ended up on a shelf, alongside a drawer full of old drives from various...

• 26 May 20224011

  Using a Raspberry Pi to Host a local Visual Studio Code Server

  I tend to work on this blog from multiple machines in my home. These include a desktop PC running Windows, a MacBook Pro running macOS, and a Chromebook with the...

• 29 Sep 20211030

  Adding Global Volume Control to the Pocket CHIP

  I’ve been gradually adding internal speakers to each of my Pocket CHIPs lately and found it cumbersome to have to either open alsamixer or use the volume control page in...

• 03 Feb 20210000

  CHIP Stuff

  This page is a changing document. I’ll probably add more notes to it in the future. These are just some notes that I’ve put together in the past about flashing...

• 02 Apr 20190000

  Installing Ubuntu on MacBookPro 8,2

• 28 Apr 20143000

  Making suspend on lid-close work with Arch Linux on the HP Chromebook 11

• 28 Mar 20141000

  Compressing PDF files from your Mac or Linux terminal with Ghostscript

  I arrived at this solution recently when looking to compress a massive print-quality PDF for the web. If you search for “compressing pdf files on mac” you’ll get lots of...

• 25 Feb 20143000

  Video: Installing Arch Linux ARM on the HP Chromebook 11

• 09 Feb 201495000

  Installing Arch Linux ARM on the HP Chromebook 11

• 29 Oct 20120000

  Ubuntu (native) on the Nexus 7