Today’s composite materials are amazing, making many things we touch lighter, cheaper, and often stronger than wood/steel. However, you occasionally bump up against the product designed “just strong enough” in the engineer’s mind, but in fact a failure in real world application. These pruners are a perfect example. Nice light and relatively cheap… but put […]
I have been running an Unraid as my network attached storage for about 5 years now. Recently I was able to test out its recoverability when a 6g WD Blue went completely belly up. Long story short, the parity protection worked like a charm and I lost no data. Crisis averted! I took the opportunity […]
Over the last week or so, my attempts to create a really straight forward retro gaming systems took a number of unanticipated twists and turns. As documented in my previous post, it started out with installing the latest version of Linux Mint on an older Intel Core i5-based laptop and then overlaying that with RetroPie. […]
