Hardware

In which I have zero self control While browsing the Amazon Black Friday sales a few weeks ago, a particular deal caught my eye. An ASUS Chromebook CR11 ruggedized laptop for around $130. Now, I have enough laptops, but I’ve always wanted to try and hack Linux onto one, and this one was attractive due to its ruggedized nature as well as a full blown Intel N100 CPU. I purchased the laptop and once it arrived, I began poking around the internet to see how I could get regular Linux on this thing. ...

Setting up brscan-skey with the Brother DS-940DW on Ubuntu Overview The Brother DS-940DW is a little handheld mobile scanner. Getting it working on Linux in a way where you can actually use the Start/Stop button on the scanner to scan things was a bit of a bear, so I thought I’d document how I did it. Part of the issue is that brscan-skey depends on the old version of libsane, and does not work with libsane1. ...

Thoughts on starting a media server in 2025 NoteBe warned that the text below is an opinion piece. My way is not the be-all-end-all, but this is how I would choose to do it if I was starting over from scratch. Recently, someone on one of the less technical Discord servers that I frequent asked a question about setting up Plex. While Plex is still a perfectly capable media server - I still run it myself, simply because migrating the 20+ users I have using it to Jellyfin would be difficult - there are some privacy concerns over the changes that Plex has made in recent years. ...