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I 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
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 was just thinking about this sandwich I had last year back in April, the first time I went to visit my fiance’s parents in Japan. I’d never had this mild, slightly salty, pickled mustard green before. If you’ve never had (or heard of, like me) takana-zuke [高菜漬け], do yourself a favor and try to … Read more
The classic HTWF&IP by Dale Carnegie was an interesting read. A lot of the suggestions are pretty timeless and obvious advice along the lines of, actually be interested in what the person you’re talking to is saying, offer compliments when appropriate, make sure to be sincere when doing so, do your best to be pleasant … Read more
This was a really enjoyable read. I was a little put off with the format at first, which is basically the author recounting various interviews he’s done for his podcast and a smattering of profiles on people he admires or has studied. After reading a few though, his analysis and commentary on the interviews became … Read more