Saturday, May 24, 2025

[Tech] What do SATA/AHCI SStatus and SControl mean?

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 If you're troubleshooting a SATA drive connection in Linux and you run into errors like this:   [14465.577496] ata2: SATA link down (SS...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

A Letter

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 Dear Doctor,  It would seem that I'm here for the same thing I was here for a decade ago, when you said it would be fine, that it's...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

[Tech] ESPHome, Raspberry Pi, PlatformIO, and "sh: 1: xtensa-esp32s3-elf-g++: not found"

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If you have bumped into this locked thread: https://github.com/esphome/issues/issues/3904 You may be facing NEITHER a PlatformIO bug NOR an ...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

[Tech] LimeSDR on ARM64 Windows (almost)

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I recently got a LimeSDR Mini v2.0, a software-defined radio receiver-transmitter that's open-source, open-hardware, and generally aweso...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

[Technical] Using rtl_433 with Salter temperature probe

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 So, you bought a Salter brand oven thermometer, FCC ID 2ATK8-BS201, and it has a nice removable remote that listens to radio chirps from th...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

[Tech] GPS reception on Raspberry Pi 2 with RTL-SDR

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(Nope, still not working yet.)   I have an RTL-SDR dongle and an active GPS antenna, so I'd like to attach them to my wee little Raspber...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

ingots

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 It was cleanup time again. The plant operator was supposed to be good enough at his job to avoid this, but here I was again, shovelling lum...