You can DIY upgrade the M4 Pro Mac mini's internal SSD to 4TB—for almost half Apple's upgrade pricing (but still 3x what normal M.2 NVMe SSDs cost 🙄) How does that compare to external Thunderbolt 5 storage? A video:

Do not let perfect be the enemy of good.

We should have mandatory Internet outage times every month, like Tornado drills but for exposing bad IoT devices and software phoning home.

Seeing reports that Iran has an Internet blackout, and possibly US or other countries are jamming GPS... Turns some of my own interest in mesh networks, radio, P2P self-hosted stuff, and anti-jamming PNT solutions a little less academic :/

That can't be good... Help me find the source of the mysterious ticking noise!

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Find the source of the Mysterious Ticking Noise in the Apple II PSU · Issue #15 · geerlingguy/retro-computers

There seems to be a mysterious ticking noise coming from inside the Apple II PSU which we recently re-capped (it had been running fine for at least...

I don't know how many more rabbit holes I can go down, but I'm about to become a retro Mac 'Tuber lol

Self hosting your own media considered harmful (according to YouTube...).

Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated) | Jeff Geerling

Oh we're gonna do this again YouTube? Self-hosting your own media content on a Raspberry Pi is not "dangerous or harmful". I'm appealing of course; they're saying installing LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi circumvents copyright?!

Look what showed up on the desk... Sipeed NanoCluster. What would you like to know?

Your eyes are not fast enough to see this clock—quick Level 2 Jeff video on mitxela's Precision Clock Mk IV, because it's the coolest clock I own: