HP 24f Monitor Vesa Mount – 3D printing
I am using two HP 24f monitors side by side. I bought them three years ago at Costco. Here is the setup look. There is a big foot under the monitor. I want to change it and mount it on...
Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D Printer
I bought a 3D printer, a Bambu Lab A1 mini, from the official website. It took three days to arrive at my front door from the warehouse. Here is the list of the order. A1 mini Printer $249.00 Hotend with...
Problem of Sogou Pinyin IME
I used Sogou Pinyin IME for many years. It is easy to use. Save your time, the conclusion is: Do not use Sogou Pinyin IME. https://shurufa.sogou.com/ Here is the problem I found last month. The blue circle with the mouse...
PCIe to SATA adapter
I received my order, a PCIe to SATA adapter yesterday. I installed it immediately to add the fifth hard drive to my PC. Here is my PC situation. The motherboard is an ASUS Prime B450M-A II. The storage posts are...
Coping files Speed
Here is the comparison of coping files from HDD to SSD and from SSD to SSD I have an HDD, which has a lot of game files. I want to move it to an SSD with a SATA connection. Look,...
VPS performance benchmark – DigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD
I created a new VPS on DigitalOcean yesterday. It is a basic shared CPU, premium AMD with NVMe SSD, 1vCPU, 1GB memory, 25GB NVMe storage, and 1TB transfer—data center in San Francisco. The monthly cost of this VPS is $7....
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Benchmark
It is the CPU on my desktop, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G. I got this CPU in December 2021, almost three years ago. I am still using it as my main PC. Recently, I watched a video about Scrapyard Wars on...
Upgrade TP-Link Deco X90
I have two Deco X90 routers. I used them for more than two years. Normally I will check it to see if it has new firmware. I sign in to the router interface first. Go to the Advanced > System...
Program ESP32 CAM with YP-05 FTDI
I bought an ESP32-CAM board and an FTDI (YP-05) board in July. It was hard to find time to play them until yesterday. Here is what I got. ESP32-CAM board $5.53 for the ESP32-CAM WiFi Module and OV2640 Camera Module....
How to crack the codes of Master Lock
I bought three Master Locks in Costco many years ago. It is a package with three locks. They were given to my kids for the secondary school lockers. They need to bring their own locks. Recently I found this blue...
Get rid of the warning on Proxmox VE
Here is a warning I saw when I was using Proxmox VE. It is about the thin volume size that does not match. Look, the vm-108-disk-0 size maps 133GB but the size is only 42 GB. I googled it and...
How to corrupt a PDF File?
Want to know how to corrupt a PDF file? Then this article is the right place to find effective solutions to corrupt a PDF file so that it won’t be able to be opened or recovered by other tools or...
About ESP32
ESP32 is a series of low-cost and low-power System-on-a-chip (SoC) microcontrollers developed by Espressif, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless capabilities and a dual-core processor. Someone is familiar with ESP8266, the ESP32 is its successor. I am not, so I have...
Got some toys for myself
Yesterday, I received my August 7th Aliexpress order—four items in separate packages from mainland China. They are in a big bag labeled with Canada Post. Let me open them and have a look.
Fix the XBOX 360 Wired Controller
The XBOX 360 Wired Controller I have is more than seven years old. I have a post when I bought it. Two weeks ago, I tried to clean it. So I unscrewed seven screws. I took out the parts and...