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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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 […]
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3D Printing Cases for My Hex Wrenches
I’ve made new plastic trays to hold my metric and imperial hex wrench sets.
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Building a Bottle Shaking Machine
I built a bottle shaking machine to help me make my own sparkling water at home.
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Fedora 38+: GNOME suspends after 15 minutes of user inactivity, even on AC power
How to turn off system-wide auto-suspend after upgrading server to Fedora 39.
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Improving My Tone
Upgrading to a Fractal FM9 guitar modeler has been a revalation for me.
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Could Not Reconnect All Network Drives
How I fixed the Windows’ “Could not reconnect all network drives” error
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Making a Linux Samba Server the Destination for OS X Time Machine Backups
OS X Time Machine can use a Linux server as the destination for backups instead of a physical device.
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3D-Printed Wrench Trays for My Tool Chest
I needed to make room in the wrench drawer of my tool chest to accommodate a new set of stubby wrenches I bought. I decided to print wrench trays that store my wrenches in vertical slots, rather than laying them out flat like I had been. I looked at the 3D models for various wrench […]
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