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Maximum memory for Lenovo Yoga 370
(and the Asus Q170T) I’ve picked up a Lenovo Yoga 370 because (amongst other features) it has a removable / upgradable RAM slot (yes, two slots would have been even better :)). You can find various sources (including ChatGPT) claiming it to be 16GB, however, if we look up the processor for this particular model…
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Lampa Raptor combination lock manual
Archiving it here for posterity: (the combination is in the password manager)
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Donations
At this point in my life I’m lucky enough that I have some expendable income. So here are a couple of organizations / individuals I donated to recently – maybe this will inspire you dear reader to also donate some – if you have the means to do so: Somewhat related: my employer also offers…
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Quick notes about installing GNU/Linux on an Asus Chromebook 4
Many have said it and I have to agree: don’t get a Chromebook as “a nice small PC”. They ain’t. Just some problems I ran across: That said, here are the cliff-notes: That’s it folks!
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First guide on iFixit
I wrote my first iFixit guide: Lenovo IdeaPad 530S-14IKB Keyboard / touchpad assembly Replacement. It was moderately difficult (adding images is somewhat unintuitive and slow – you have to click on the image again after you uploaded it and there is no visual clue to indicate that that’s what you need to do), but manageable.…
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kurzgesagt – trust but verify
Back in January Kurzgesat announced that they’re doing a sale because they’ll be moving warehouses (see the announcement on Archive.org). This lead me to ask “is that really happening or is this just a marketing ploy to drive sales”? So, I did a small experiment by purchasing something from the shop back in January and…
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Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide to Science’s Most Puzzling Discovery
I found the “graphic guide” book concept intriguing, yet reading through multiple of them, I felt like they are more directories – pointers for further readings – rather than something I could use – while having little idea about the subject – as an introduction or overview into the subject. This idea was further strengthened…
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Email setup
I have a couple of goals for my email setup: Which leads me to my current setup: use simplelogin.io from Proton with a fallback to Cloudflare Email Routing. Advantages of this setup Details of the setup The description of the setup is probably shorter than the list of advantages, which is probably a good thing…
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Remembering the OG ad/malware blocking hosts file
For the longest time the first thing which I installed on new computers / computers I was asked to “help with” was the MVP hosts file (archive.org link). I credit this file with keeping many, many computers safe and running they way their owners intended to for almost two decades now. Sadly it seems like…
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Oracle cloud
As they say – people don’t use Oracle because the IT department chose it :). This is also probably true for for their cloud offering :). Just of the top of my head: Arcane login procedure that doesn’t support 2FA that prompts you to change your (randomly generated, high entry, kept in a password manager)…