These are my steps to reproduce virtualization of Tamagotchis in Ubuntu 20. I came across this in a Hackaday Podcast. I was intrigued because the emulator developer wrote the software to be OS and hardware agnostic, thus implying it can be installed on a wide variety of devices. It sounded like a fun project to me so I took the first step to get it running just in linux. I started with a vanilla install so it required a couple…
One of the most influential websites in my life was 750words.com. It is a site that encourages you to write every single day, about any thing really. Freewriting. I noticed that it helped me focus the rest of the day on my priorities. Even though there was a lot of junk words, after about 20 minutes I’d almost always have at least one genuine insight about something I wanted to do. So I started writing those down in lists of…
Found a solution to a problem that has been plaguing me for months. My wifi would disconnect randomly, unable to recover and requiring a reboot. The solution was not simple to find. Sharing my notes here in case it helps someone else. The problem seems to be the wireless interface’s Power Management. And the solution was simply to turn it off. I narrowed the problem down by watching the syslog until the moment it happened: tail -f /var/log/syslog In the…