Matt Olan

How to Create and Enable Swap in Linux

Running low on memory can cause applications to crash, the system to become unresponsive, and other issues. This is common on memory limited systems, especially on SBCs like the Raspberry Pi. Swapping to disk can be used to allow for some extra breathing room

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Raspberry Pi iSCSI Root on Ubuntu 20.04

Over the holidays, I wanted to build a Kubernetes cluster on some Raspberry Pis I had, which were collecting dust. I spun up a simple Rancher K3s cluster, but quickly discovered they were heavily IO-bound. I decided that if I was going to use

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How to Downgrade Steam Games

Yesterday, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI got a new update for the New Frontier Pass. This update had the unfortunate side effect of breaking compatibility between the Windows and macOS

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Making a piSCSI USB Drive — Part 2

Continuing directly from my previous post, I have received my RockPi 4b in the mail and, using the exact same methods outlined before, have set it up for OTG and

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Making a piSCSI USB Drive — Part 1

I use my home Synology NAS to consolidate nearly all my data in one place. One exception to this is my PlayStation 4, which can connect to the NAS to

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Hilda Peak

1/1000s f/6.3 50mm ISO100 Shot on ILCE-6400

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Disable Sleep Timer on Bose SoundTouch

SoundTouch speakers have an inactivity timer that will put them into a low power mode after 20 minutes. At home I use a Chromecast Audio with my Bose SoundTouch 10