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SAH Day 9: Preparedness

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Lewin Edwards

(Administrative note: We started our travel-triggered isolation on March 13th and it ended on the 27th. However, on March 25th Indiana went on stay-at-home via Executive Order 20-08, so we are still effectively locked in until April 6th – now updated to at least April 20th. The tl;dr is that this is actually more like…

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Old iPad, New Linux – Utility or Futility?

Posted on February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 by Lewin Edwards

I work for a company that has been developing mobile software for ~10 years. As such, every so often Engineering decides to clean up and recycle all the old, totally unsupported dev phones; in the same vein, many people in the company (including myself, if we’re going to be honest) are tech-forward frequent-upgraders and also…

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Huh. That was easy.

Posted on January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 by Lewin Edwards

If I believed in New Year resolutions, I suspect I’d have to add one right now: “Don’t overthink things in 2019”. As this short tale will demonstrate, I just narrowly avoided going down a very deep, branching rabbit hole in search of something that was right in front of my nose. To give you the…

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Life on Linux, 2018

Posted on October 3, 2018 by Lewin Edwards

A week ago, in my last post, I discussed my decision to move my daily driver OS from Windows 10 to Linux, and the purchase of a ThinkPad 460S to be my new Linux machine. This post is a quick update on what has worked out – and what has not – so far. Ergonomically,…

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XBox (Original) tinkering

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Lewin Edwards

A coworker of mine who works remotely about 100 miles from the office, and whom I consequently don’t see face-to-face very often, has been talking to me for probably close to a year about a) giving me his old not-believed-functional XBox with cables and controllers, and b) taking some of the retired 2TB hard drives…

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Storage Trek III – The Quest for NAS (long)

Posted on January 27, 2018March 4, 2018 by Lewin Edwards

In a desultory fashion, I have been converting a trashpicked classic all-in-one Mac into a whimsical NAS device (see Youtube video 1, video 2 and video 3). This device is ultimately intended to replace a dedicated Linux PC that has been serving the role (through various hardware upgrades) for about seven years now. This project…

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The ThinkPad X230 in 2017^H2018

Posted on December 31, 2017 by Lewin Edwards

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose! I wasn’t unhappy at all with the X220 I bought almost exactly two months ago, but Microsoft has announced that on Dec 31, 2017 they are changing the rules on free Windows 10 upgrades. It is no longer clear if it’ll be possible to use the XP/Vista/Win7/Win8 OEM keys on…

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The ThinkPad X220 in 2017

Posted on October 22, 2017October 23, 2017 by Lewin Edwards

More or less every three to six months, I tinker with different portable computing options. This is partly because my mobile computing needs change over time, but mainly because my needs are conflicting and it is difficult to find a single hardware solution that optimizes for all my use cases and dogmas. Most recently, I’ve…

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