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Corrupted microSD cards

The Raspberry Pi I ordered last month suddenly stopped booting today. I tried re-imaging the microSD a couple times but was still having the same issue. Doing some tests, it seems the SD card is corrupting data, the data written and data read back doesn't match. Ratchet :: Desktop/ubuntu-img/20.

AirPlay across broadcast domains

AirPlay is great and "just works" if all your devices are on the same network. But if your device and TV are on separate broadcast domains, for example different VLANs, they will not be able to discover each other. Luckily the solution is simple. Find somewhere to run Linux (in

Getting a year's free internet with a dish

Back in 2015, my girlfriend and I rented an apartment in Auckland CBD that overlooked the University of Auckland Law School. I thought it'd be interesting to see if we could get reliable WiFi from the university's network and save us paying $100/month broadband. I ordered a PowerBeam 400mm