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Moving to Manjaro from Windows

Posted on December 7, 2025 by michael

So far the transition has been pretty painless. A couple of things to note though that I’ve bumped into so far. My main drive is not the home drive for the operating system. Everything that I care about is on two ntfs formatted drives. When I transitioned, I made sure there was nothing important on …

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reviving a Macbook pro 2015 (A1502)

Posted on July 7, 2025 by michael

getting WiFi and the Camera working I have generous people in my life. One of them gave me a Macbook Pro from 2015 recently. I’m excited because it means I get to move out of the Macbook Air 2011 that I’ve been limping along on for the past few years. I’m doubling my RAM (all …

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Installing Apps on LineageOS

Posted on June 23, 2025 by michael

So… I’m trying to de-big tech. De-google, de-meta etc… which comes with some problems. The big one is lack of “google play services”. Purchased software currently isn’t purchased (have to figure out how to solve that, in some cases it’s easy in others it totally dependent on play services or smthng I don’t want or …

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Dreame D10s Pro Hacking

Posted on October 9, 2024 by michael

I recently purchased a used Dreame D10s Pro robot vacuum and I can say I haven’t made a more useful purchase in a very long time. The house is significantly cleaner than it has been in some time and it’s staying that way which is new for me. In order to make it work for …

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