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raleighI solved the first real problem I’ve had with my hardware/OS combo Trying to use sleep had issues – first the wireless adapter putting the device to sleep, then the video card failing to resume First lets fix the mt7925e wireless adapter by using modprobe mt7925e wireless adapter Single-file solution: one sleep hook script (pre … Read more
My Asus ROG Strix laptop died prematurely after a meager 3 years of service. Best guess is the graphics MUX bridge got buggered by poor ACPI table handling in the firmware. It limped along the last couple months, working normally while running but failing to boot at the windows spinner about the half the time. … Read more
2025 was the hardest year of my life (so far) Praying for health, wealth, and happiness in 2026 for my family, myself, (and you dear reader!)
I’ve been playing with Stable Diffusion locally for a while and meant to make a post about getting torch-directml setup to work on WSL with CUDA, but haven’t got around to it. This is basically the same process with even easier instructions to follow. Here’s a Reddit post documenting the process: [D] Tutorial: Run LLaMA … Read more
Wow. I just recompiled emacs to use the new WSLg system which allows windows to run Linux GUI apps using the wayland system. I got fed up with all the artifacts present in terminal mode caused by the emacs extensions causing bad redraws like LSP server that often made the buffer practically unreadable. Wish I … Read more
Well this one is baffling. I’ve got a new laptop and I’m trying to install Expo, a javascript React Native framework. After getting the LTS version of Node with NVM (Node Version Manager) – I found that the default Expo install command would freeze after a few seconds. Running it verbose offered little extra information. … Read more
Are you having trouble with your React Native app calling an API on your local machine? You’ve tried every mode ‘cors’ and ‘no-cors’ for the fetch request? For some reason, you’re seeing a 200 HTTP response but the message is empty? If you’re using Golang’s Gin Gonic framework for your backend there’s one more step … Read more
Digging into the Elder Futhark on Wikipedia, as one does. I forgot that each rune had a name. The names using the associated letter is an example of acrophony The Elder Futhark can be roughly transliterated into the Roman alphabet and vice versa. For example, my transliterated name in the Elder Futhark is ᚱᚨᛚᛖᛁᚷᚺ.
I’ve been using native emacs for while now. I love it. So much faster than its interpreted counterpart. Building it is still a bit tricky though. I’ve used this basic process on WSL2 and on a headless server to compile without X11 support. The general build guide on emacswiki is very good and has a … Read more
This review has been sponsored by TCK Publishing, who graciously provided me with a free copy. The last couple years, I’ve been studying Japanese on and off. I’ve been having trouble with learning the kanji though. An adult needs roughly 2000 for basic reading comprehension. The last few weeks I’ve been trying to go through … Read more