Gray, a writer.
While tmux is a wonderful tool on its own, for mere mortals like myself, I jump back and forth between GUI and CLI. At least, that’s the impression I am getting from tmux why I am not getting 100% out of it. The shortcuts, quite frankly, are not intuitive for modern GUI users mind. As…
If you are running home server using Docker containers, you would often see PUID (UID) or PGID (GID). The only problem is, as far as I could tell, Synology DSM does not offer GUI way to get these numbers. In fairness, in Docker territory, you are above the pay grade of consumer NAS products. For…
As I am migrating from Pi setups to one NAS, one of the immediate upside and downside was HDD. I get more storage out of the physical machine, but HDDs are still slower than microSD cards on Pi. Fortunately, I had some old NVMe drives sitting around and decided to make use of it. The…
While I was working with Raspberry Pi projects, one notable trend which became prevalent was the web UI open source dockers started offering. With the proper DB, the indexing could not be faster than my handy work from 2000s. What that also meant was I ended up with a list of URLs I would want…
Since I am still in the process of moving projects over from Pi, one of the big issues at hand is keeping tabs on the scripts I wrote. As much as I’d like to believe all my databases live on SSD, they don’t. HDDs are frustratingly slow, and the modern databases are designed around it.…
Though Raspberry Pi has added many handholding tools since, there are few quirks users from traditional operating system could not get accustomed to. Heck, I hail from different flavors of Linux, even I find headless Pi to be too barebones at time. I felt that the hardest when the earlier version of headless Pi would…
I’m still in the process of retiring old projects. While I’m at it, I wanted a backup solution that will work over network. Putting a USB stick to a working Pi is a solution, only when that Pi is not headless (i.e. stuck away in a network closet). As far as I know, and this…
I’m in the process of retiring my old Pi setups. It’s worth its own op-ed piece, but primarily, I built these DIY projects when Raspbian was still a thing on Buster. The latest Raspberry Pi OS (now renamed) is Trixie. I don’t know how I should take it, perhaps someone from professional background would have…
There is no permanent fix for stick drifts on official controllers, as far as I know. All controllers suffer from stick drifts to some degrees. And from what I can gather, aside from third party controllers (which may not support haptic feedback and/or adaptive trigger), the only option is to look out for premium models…
Just last year I covered the very issue of leaving 1Password. Long story short, Apple Passwords, a free alternative for iOS and MacOS, has come a long way. With iOS 26, some argue it is now a suitable free alternative among many others. Not that I am suggesting everyone should jump ship, but I believe…
I had played Umigari demo, and I liked the fishing and the usual Chilla’s Art special sauce that gave it some tangy flavor. I suppose it is the inherent problem in most fishing sims that fishing in video games often devolve into mini games. There are few games that escaped the usual fishing mini game…
This piece has been sitting in the back burner for some time now. The Chapter 1, though it had some fancy gadgets for a toy factory, it stayed a toy factory (with theme) with toy monsters. Compare that to what is going on in current chapters, the players are well past the point of factory…
Perhaps not so surprisingly, this will not be the end of Poppy Playtime the main franchise. As I understand it, the series was first planned with total of five chapters. Due to the nature of the episodic release, some parts of the review may contain spoilers. Please do check out previous posts on Chapter 1-3…
What better way to start a family holiday than an old school murder mystery set in London? It’s a psychic-filled murder mysteries set in London, solved by an American detective character, made by a Korean developer, with only Japanese dubs. I’m serious. This is quintessentially Castle in the Sky but with more emphasis on East…
Some older IoT devices had quirky ways to connect to WiFi. My Bose Soundbar 700 and several others from era (e.g. label printers) have dedicated web UI that are only for connecting to a home WiFi during initial setup. The solution would have worked, if the modern browsers weren’t mandating HTTPS even on the LAN.…