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The Best Way to Ease into Linux in 2026
Why: Linux is a good way to get more out of your hardware. It runs less “spyware” like monitoring. ItΚ»s a little less automated. You donΚ»t need to log into Microsoft or Apple to do things. How: create an external SSD disk connected over USB-3 to boot the machine. This way, you can reboot into…
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Fixing Broken Linux MINT Boot
Symptoms: rebooting immediately goes into the grub command line. The easiest way to fix this is to use a USB boot, and run tools to fix the boot. This page explains how to fix it from the command line. The following commands are how I fixed it. grub> set root=/dev/sda2grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda2grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img.oldgrub>…
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show notes for riceball.com video
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LLMs and Subversive Drones Against Surveillance
I had an obvious idea to deal with the Flock security cameras: an anonymous drone that would fly to the camera, and then spray paint the lens, rendering the camera useless. a small autonomous drone that will fly to surveillance cameras and spray paint the lens Grok won: The image on the right is pretty…
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How to Use Craigslist and Facebook to Get Rid of Stuff for Free
Once the rainy seasons is past, you can take a lot of stuff out and give it away or sell it. Here’s a photo of some stuff I’ve given away. This is a small fraction of what I’ve donated to the junk pickers. It’ll soon be time to purge again. In the winter time, I…
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Draft: The Disinformation Landscape, MRAsians, and the Left Avoiding Discussions of Some Issues of Interest
(This was written in 2022.) A recent report came out about disinformation in the Asian media sphere, and it was weird to me. It mentioned Asians With Attitudes as one of the disinformation sources. r/aznidentity was also mentioned. These were under the umbrella of “MRAsians”. The MRAsians thing happened back around 2018, but got a…
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Big Disk of Pu Erh Tea
I got this $9 disk of tea, and it’s pretty good. I don’t recall the name, but it’s at a couple of the local Chinese/Viet markets. To make it, you break off a chunk that’s a couple tablespoons. Then you break and crumble that into smaller pieces. To brew pu erh, it’s Chinese style. The…
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How to Make Japanese Style Curry Roux
This is a super basic roux-based “curry”. The three ingredients are fat, flour, and curry powder. You can optionally add salt and soy sauce, but I never do. Over low heat, heat half a cup of fat in a frying pan. You can use anything, but lard seems to be the one used in the…
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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
Symptoms: The earpad came off. The rubber peeled off, and a lot of facial oil was in the earpiece. The foam part slipped off, and underneath, there was a lock ring, which holds the earpad onto the earpiece. Explanation: the plastic band that held the foam part onto the lock ring, by making the edge…
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Authentic Sushi
Someone on FB was asking, so I answered. Futomaki and inari (without complicated fillings), is the OG Japanese American sushi from the early 1900s to the 1980s. The other common one, which seems to be the main sushi at temple and church bazaars until the 1990s, was chirashizushi, which is more like a mixed rice…