I’m a tinkerer. I do a lot of weird things that shouldn’t be done. I’ll write some of the stuff I’ve done here.

• QNVH (Coffee Lake laptop engineering sample) adventure 2.0 - Coffee Lake on Z170, comments on CH341 programmers, cruddy motherboard rants, microcode muddling, and more
• Magic Q35/OVMF Intel iGPU Passthrough Incantation (Proxmox 8.2)
• Setting up greetd/tuigreet in NixOS with session detection and choosing (0.8.0 and 0.9.0)
• Cheap Riverbed/Silicom Intel i350 based bypass network cards - how to use normally, other misc information
• XPT2046 / ILI9341 SPI LCD (Raspberry Pi style) on Orange Pi Zero (Allwinner H3), Armbian OS
• Intel MSR turbo twiddle - Increased all-core performance on power-limited Intel CPUs (dubious utility?)
• Hardware Notes
  • 2023/10/06 Initial research on the Google Nest Wifi Router (model H2D, board name mistral), putting Linux on it
  • 2023/08/14 Wyse 5020 (Dx0Q), 7010, (Zx0D) 7020 (Zx0Q)
  • 2023/08/14 Optiplex 7440 Family (Optiplex 3240, 5250, 7440, 7450)
• Running Fractorium on NixOS with OpenCL/CUDA acceleration
• How I got Wi-fi working in Proxmox