Information Technology
Intel WiFi with AMD Processors
Beware using certain Intel WiFi chips in AMD machines, this article is a short overview of CNVi
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PowerEdge R430 Setup
I have recently acquired a PowerEdge R430 from a company called SpicketRiver Electronics. (Ebay link) I simply cannot recommend them enough. They are the same folks I got the R910 from, and when I had issues with both this server and the R910 their support was simply astounding. The server
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Avoid UGREEN Products!
I go on a rant about my poor experience with a UGREEN product
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Laptop RAM Woes
Laptop RAM is a pain point for me. I've inexplicably never had a RAM upgrade work right out of the box for a laptop... Maybe I'm just unlucky. I've never had this happen on desktop though. Part 1: HP Envy x360 This starts with
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Struggling to update an HP BIOS on Linux
My laptop is an HP Envy x360 DR1012DX - I can't promise this will work on your device. After only finding a .exe as a BIOS update option on the HP driver list for my laptop, I had to find a solution for Linux. This might be a
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R910 Adventures: Updating the BIOS
I am hoping to begin a series of working on the R910. These articles will range from very short to pretty long. Anyway, Lets get started! Getting the BIOS I have started by creating a USB stick formatted with FAT16, as this appears to be the only format the BIOS
Information Technology
SH1MMER: Chromebook unenrollment exploit
Warning: Tampering with a device you do not own is a Federal crime. Charges can be pressed. SH1MMER is an exploit to unenroll Chromebooks from enterprise management. Upon investigating, I found it affects the new Chromebooks my district just bought, so this blog will try to detail the process we
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The Pains of Optane
This is not a guide on how to recover data from Optane, I was never able to figure it out. Now don't get me wrong, Optane seems pretty cool - coming from the video Intel gives about it. My laptop came with it installed, and I had no
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My Plans for a new laptop
For a month or so I've been thinking about getting a new laptop. Originally, the plan was to save around $7k for a ThinkPad P15 with maxed out specs. (Probably an i9, 64GB RAM, and a Quadro, similar to the one my college gave me.) However, after putting
Web Development
Converting Aspy.dev to Solid.js
I've been meaning to update my main site, aspy.dev to some React for quite a while as it was starting to become a huge pain to manage it. You can actually view the old code here and you will probably agree its a massive dumpster fire. Either
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I Got an RTX 3060
The other day I was going to my local Micro Center looking to pick out a laptop to buy in a few weeks. However, when I was there, I found they were fully stocked with RTX GPUs. So immediately I knew I had to get one. I had about $440