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Converting Ryobi electric zero-turn mower to Lithium batteries

I bought an electric, zero-turn riding lawn mower three years ago. I knew when I bought it that the battery life for its lead-acid batteries would be short. Like in a golf cart, you can expect 3 to 5 years out of a set of AGM lead-acid batteries like those that came in my mower. […]

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Building Transmission Remote GUI (transgui) for Fedora

Transmission Remote GUI (transgui) has been my longstanding favorite BitTorrent client. It is a front-end client for transmission-daemon BitTorrent servers. It is similar in appearance to the transmission-daemon’s web interface, but includes significant additional functionality. I’ve been using it for years. Unfortunately there is no RPM package for it in the Fedora repositories. It’s been […]

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HOWTO Linux Administration

Fedora grub2 repair for system using UEFI firmware

A long-running server suddenly stopped booting successfully. It started displaying a “grub rescue>” prompt after reboot. My searches suggested this meant grub needed to be reinstalled. This server uses EFI firmware so all the instructions on using “grub2-install” that I found everywhere are moot. After a couple of days of searching, this is the procedure […]