Good morning!

"in stream editing" a really interesting concept. It can be applied to audio and video, too, but a bit more complicated than text. View quoted note →

Micro 2.0.14 Terminal Text Editor Brings Key Improvements Enhanced cursor navigation, advanced syntax options, robust mouse functionality, paragraph selections, and more.

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Micro 2.0.14 Terminal Text Editor Brings Key Improvements

Micro 2.0.14 rolls out: Enhanced cursor navigation, advanced syntax options, robust mouse functionality, paragraph selections, and more.

Micro is written in the Go programming language and configurable with Lua. #Go #Lua #text

"Can Linux save this old laptop from obsolescence?" Video:

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#ThinkPad #Void #Linux

"We don't love RSS enough!" -- Gabe

We Don't Love RSS Enough

Probably.

#rss

I have a number of customers, usually with gaming laptops, that have had motherboard failures. I'm thinking that circuit level repair could potential fix some of these. I do some soldering, but this kind of work is outside of what I currently do (not opposed to learning new things). Do you know anyone who does board level circuit repair on motherboards? Have any recommendations? #repair #tech

I'm using shred again today to secure erase an older 2.5 inch HDD with one bad sector. Customer requested that I just erase the data instead of recovering it for him. #Linux View quoted note →

I enjoyed reading this blog post about Void Linux. I learned quite a few things that I didn't know before, including that Void has a way to install .deb packages from Debian (and derivatives).

Unmasking the hidden gems of Void Linux | Animesh Sahu

Void Linux, is arguably one of the most underrated Linux distributions with incredible scripting potential. The article delves deep into some of my...

#Linux

On a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 laptop, I had to disable VMD in the BIOS in order for the m.2 nvme SSD to be visible to Windows. Odd. I wonder how it got changed. Or perhaps the previous Windows installation had set up RAID and it needed VMD enabled. Not sure. #Lenovo #Windows

Still using Windows? #windows #ipv6 #exploit https://inv.dembased.xyz/watch?v=L65mpS9EmvE

This repair was a success. I followed up with the customer a while afterwards and she was very happy with how it turned out. #repair #jbweld View quoted note →

Have a good weekend!

JB Weld is useful stuff. Using it to adhere a DC jack back in place in a Lenovo IdeaPad after it was busted in and the original bracket destroyed. Also used the heat of a soldering iron to push a brass anchor back into the plastic of the palm rest on the same laptop. This laptop "experienced a fall" due to an overly energetic dog coming in contact with the charging cable. I should be able to fix it. We'll see after letting the JB Weld epoxy cure overnight. #laptop #repair

I'm working on refurbishing a ThinkPad P51 laptop with Xeon processor. Impressive machine. Old enough to be affordable, still very powerful for the work that my customer is wanting to do with it. I plan on replacing the screen, as it has a noticeable light spot. Will be upgrading with a new Crucial 1TB nvme SSD and upgrading the memory (RAM) to 32GB. #ThinkPad

"Sales equal survival. If you want to survive, get better at sales." -- Dan Koe I'm delivering two refurbished laptops today. Both Dell laptops, but considerably different models in features and age. The newer one is a Dell Vostro 7500 with Intel i7, tenth gen and new 500GB nvme SSD. The customer wanted a laptop with number keypad for data entry for their coffee shop business. The older one is a Dell Inspiron 17 (model 3737) with Intel i3, fourth gen, 250GB SATA SSD. The customer is replacing an even old laptop that had a much slower processor and a completely failed hard disk drive. Both of these laptops solve a need for each of these people at their desired price point. Selling them was as easy as being able to have the skills and knowledge to refurbish the laptops, talk with these people about their needs, and ask "Do you want to buy this?". The answer was an easy "yes".

gparted and clonezilla are useful tools. Using them again today to clone a 512GB nvme SSD to a slightly smaller new 500GB nvme SSD. Gparted to shrink and move partions, Clonezilla to clone (Expert Mode, option -icds, to skip check the size of the drive it is cloning to). If a Window NTFS partition, run chkdsk in Windows after resizing the partition with gparted and before cloning with CloneZilla. Otherwise, the clone will fail (happened the first time I tried it, worked fine after running chkdsk from Windows on that partition). #linux

Did some fun things with tech today... and had some frustrations. The website that was supposed to "go live" today didn't. Works fine in dev server and on "live mode" with a different sub-domain... but will not load the css files when the actual final deployed domain name is switched on. I am not the programmer, but the sysadmin. Tested the "live" configuration with a different domain name and that works fine. Due to testing, I think the PHP code logic that considers the domain name has a show stopping bug in it. Programmer put some logic that changes how the website works based on what the domain name is. Being clever for different "dev" modes... but I wouldn't have done that. I would have had the result be the same, no matter what the domain name so it is predictable. I documented my testing and emailed the programmer. We'll see if my hunch as to the cause was right.

Regarding Crowdstrike: I thought I had a customer call about the Crowdstrike issue, as his machine blue screened and he saw the news. He waiting over the weekend and then called me Monday morning. At that point, that was the only customer call I thought I had gotten about the Crowdstrike issue. I show up onsite, go through the steps to remove Crowdstrike problem files... but no Crowdstrike on the computer. Turns out his problem was caused by a different Windows Update issue and not Crowdstrike. So, as a computer repairman who has thousands of past customers not a single one has contacted me who was actually affected by the Crowdstrike issue.

I am getting ready a Dell Latitude 7490 laptop for a customer. I got two of them. I'm impressed with it's design. They also have a 7390, a version slightly smaller with 13 inch screen. Very much want to get some hands on time with that model now.

I have been using Digital Ocean tutorials and documentation a lot lately. They have some great tech tutorials, tips and resources:

Tutorials | DigitalOcean

Follow along with one of our 8,000+ development and sysadmin tutorials.

Checked some of my notes from a few years ago and one of them had a reference and link to a Digital Ocean tutorial on SSH. Looked up several topics today, including MySQL.