Today, many were affected by what the media here in Australia have been calling a “tech outage”. A component of Crowdstrike’s Falcon security product contained a bug causing widespread “blue screen...

Wasn’t sure what to title this one because I actually noticed the issue playing with the common circuit that uses a P-MOSFET to disconnect the battery when a higher source voltage is detected, like...

Today I received a “battery eliminator” for Quansheng handheld radios. It claims to take 12-24V DC input on a “cigarette lighter” jack, and pretend to be a battery for the radio. This was the AliEx...

Hello! Been a while since I wrote a post, a bit demotivating when Google refuses to index your blog! A lot’s happened, but anyway, let’s get to it. Today I received a cheap microphone handset int...

Tenda provides Debian DEB packages for their W311MIv6.0 adapter here, but you’ll find these packages no longer work on recent kernels. The fix is quite easy though. This post will cover how to inst...

For my first serious post, why not one I’ll probably constantly refer to myself every time I need to make a post? Jekyll post filenames use the same format as the result of the command date -I. Da...

Hey! Welcome to my blog. I set this up because I needed somewhere to document random things I do that might save someone else time to know about. Or sometimes I just need an outlet. I tried to kee...