Speedtest.net result from Cape Town, showing 500Mbps down and 200Mbps up.

There may be a lot of problems in #SouthAfrica, but one undeniably good thing is that you can get fast (and affordable) fiber to the home. Great for #WFH. Promotion time brings insane value such as the 500/200Mbps I have for like $37pm

A stack of Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro Form Factor Workstation PCs. There are five (5) CR2032 3V coin batteries next to the stack.

CMOS batteries all swapped out. Some new #homelab gear (with remote management!) ready to go, complements of the new job 👌

Step Up Your Home Security Game on the Cheap With A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Powered CCTV Monitor Not too long ago I set up a few IP cameras around the house. I wanted a non-proprietary way to monitor the feeds while I'm in my study. This blog post details my solution leveraging a Raspberry Pi Zer...

Transform your old monitor into an #IPCamera/#CCTV feed with #RaspberryPi Zero 2 W! 🛠️

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#DIYProjects #HomeSecurity #TechBlog

What's the most cost effective way to get multi-gig networking going in a #homelab these days? SFP+ won't work for me since most devices are micro form factor.

2.5GbE USB adapters and the cheapest unmanaged switch? #tech #networking

When WSL Fails You: Mounting ext4 Linux Partitions on Windows When They're on the Same Drive as C: Still dual-booting Windows and Linux for experimentation reasons, I tried copying files from my Linux partition (on the same SSD as C:) to Windows. I quickly found that it's not supported in WSL, so I...

Here's another quick #blog post about accessing Linux partitions (ext4) which happen to be on the same disk as Microsoft Windows' C: drive.

This blog post details my workaround for WSL2's limitation to access files from a Linux system on the same drive.

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Very tempted to set up a social presence for my blog posts (Youtube, TikTok, etc.) but thinking of a unique name is difficult 🤔

Next blog post will be about making a cheap IP camera monitor with a #raspberrypi zero 2.

Had an old monitor laying around and wanted a power effective solution for seeing the outside when I'm in my home office

Automated and Dynamic Raspberry Pi Provisioning For The Lazy Homelabber Featuring Canonical MAAS and Python I'm lazy and don't like to manually re-provision SD cards or SSDs for use with my Raspberry Pi devices. I have developed an environment in which I can re-provision my Pis on demand without any physica...

For #PiDay2024, I've finally managed to finish my newest blog post called "Automated and Dynamic Raspberry Pi Provisioning For The Lazy Homelabber Featuring #Canonical MAAS and #Python". π π π

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#homelab #raspberrypi #PiDay