Here. The PiDP-1 is the big news. Coming out soon. I’m interested in all of them… the PiDP-1 the most. However the order I’d like to get the others are… PiDP-8, PiDP-10, PiDP-1. Just figured from oldest to newest… least to most issues. However the PiDP-10, seems to be the one of Oscar’s greatest interest/pride. …
Monthly Archives: July 2025
Verizon signon is a PITA
I want to change some settings (maybe add some filters). Based on past experiences I assume this won’t go smoothly. And I wasn’t dissappointed… Actually before I even get here I went to mynetworksettings.com which I think I recorded on the device. But I get “Secure Site Not Available”. Starting off just great… as expected! …
Finally increased/resized root
I mentioned it here. But I’ve needed to do it for at least a year, maybe more. But first, for some reason gparted would hang. I think my version was 5 years old. So I downloaded newest iso. Then balenaEtcher was bombing. So downloaded newest version of that. Finally could successfully boot the flash drive. …
Solar test #3 – Backyard
None of my tests so far have been ideal. I intended to start around 10 or 11AM. But weather was overcast. I was just going to skip the test today. But I looked outside before 2PM and it was sunny. If I started at 10AM I’d already have 4 hrs behind me. The backyard is …
Clonezilled my root partition
In preparation of expanding it with gparted. Hopefully tomorrow.
WordPress crop
So frustrated trying to crop an image within the a post. I wanted to crop this image that is within a post. As you can see there is a crop button for this post. Keyword this. I want to crop it like the white box represents. Cropping it within the Media Library is intuitive, works …
New Watt meter tests
It was finally delivered. Time for some tests. FYI: my low power LED lights don’t even register anything. And as can be seen above it detected 0.6W for the radio turned off. On to the fans, that based on what I read for various models, should be around 40W. This was basically true for the …
BLUETTI Solar Generator AC50B tests
OK, I ran some tests and was pleasantly surprised. Test #1…radio. The draw was so low it didn’t even show up on the OUTPUT. And yes it’s turned on, and playing music. It estimates a 40.5 hr run. Test#2 – radio + Fan (on low). This time it detected a 24W draw. And a run …
BLUETTI Solar Generator AC50B arrived
Turned it on at 1:45PM. Already at 56%… out of the box. First charge, notice INPUT (272W 60Hz from the Grid…bottom right)… Phone app… It says 85% at 2:20PM. Meaning it went from 56% to 85% in 35min. That seems inconceivable to me it seems more like it was 15min. Charging complete (in about an …
Need to expand/resize my Linux root partition
I’ve needed to for a while. I’m dragging my feet for some reason.