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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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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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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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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Setting Up Remote Desktop Access On A Headless Fedora 38 Linux Server
My cheat sheet for setting up remote desktop access to a headless server running Fedora 38 Linux
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Troubleshooting SELinux
My SELinux commands cheat sheet
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OpenVPN Client Access to a LAN Through a Unifi Dream Machine Pro (UDM Pro)
I’ve created a Debian APT package that configures an OpenVPN remote access server on the UDM Pro, making it trivial to deploy this hack.
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Automatically Turning Ubiquiti Cameras On and Off
Keeping my life private by making sure that my indoor security cameras are only turned on when the house is empty.
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Using A Physical Storage Device In A KVM
It is possible to attach a physical storage device directly to a Linux kernel virtual machine (KVM) but it cannot be done through the virtual-manager GUI tool, it has to be hand-coded.
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