This is not a long-term review. I decided I should shop for a new keyboard last night, I ordered the Keychron K2 HE this morning, and it will arrive tomorrow morning. I will have had the keyboard on my desk for a week by the time I finish writing this blog, so I will definitely be able to tell you if I am happy with my purchase, but this is mostly going to be about WHY I chose the Keychron K2 HE.| Patshead.com Blog
I don’t know if I am really properly beating on this thing as hard as I can, but I am doing my best with the hard drives I have available! …| blog.patshead.com
It has been about eight weeks since I upgraded to core of my home network. I added a Mokerlink 2.5-gigabit switch to both my network cupboard and my …| blog.patshead.com
You might consider it a stretch to call my gaming PC a workstation. One lazy way to define a workstation could be enterprise server-grade hardware in an office-friendly case, but I’m willing to be more liberal with my labeling. Workstation is an easy word to use in the title that conveys relevant enough information, so I am sticking with it, because this is the machine I sit at when I want to get work done.| Patshead.com Blog
I have had a renewed interest in couch gaming on the TV. I set up an Intel N100 mini PC last year as a Steam box, but I didn’t use it very long …| blog.patshead.com
I’m excited. I started working on my open-source HD micro frame roughly two months ago. Since then, I’ve assembled a Shapeoko XXL CNC …| blog.patshead.com
When the early reviews of the DJI Osmo Pocket started showing up on YouTube, I was disappointed in what I saw. The microphone sounded worse than what …| blog.patshead.com
My NAS is a virtual machine hosted on my home KVM server. My KVM server has a RAID 10 array composed of two 4 TB drives. This gives me a measly 4 TB …| blog.patshead.com
UPDATE: Even though this post is six years old, plenty of folks are still visiting it. I am still using this hardware, but at some point many years …| blog.patshead.com
It has been a year since I wrote about my first DSLR, a Canon Rebel XSi. By the time I bought that camera, it was already old, roughed up, and way …| blog.patshead.com
UPDATE: I used this hardware for two years. It was a fantastic build, and it performed exactly as I expected it to. The AMD 5350 and 5370 processors …| blog.patshead.com
Why am I writing about running Linux on a laptop that was already an old model when I bought it two years ago? That seems like a good question! When …| blog.patshead.com
Applying the sticky-back vinyl covering to the cabinet was very simple but time consuming process. We spray-painted the cabinet around all the edges …| blog.patshead.com
We finished up our fourth, and longest, day of arcade cabinet construction. We also made significantly less progress than on any of our previous days …| blog.patshead.com
That title should be longer. I don’t want to exclude 4-bay and 8-bay USB SATA enclosures, but I didn’t want to waste so many extra words in the front of the title!| Patshead.com Blog
The motivation I’ve been thinking about upgrading all year. I almost did back in January, and I wish I had decided to do it then. Memory …| blog.patshead.com
It has been almost a year since I wrote about using a $140 Intel N100 mini PC as a game console and Steam-streaming device in the living room. I don’t know what part of this arrangement tickles so many people, but that post has been in my top 10 most read blogs ever since it was published. This is weird to me, because I am not a gaming blog, and my game-related blog posts don’t usually get many views.| Patshead.com Blog
The hardware running Proxmox around my homelab is a little slow or a little outdated. I have an Intel N100 mini PC and a Ryzen 3550H mini PC here at …| blog.patshead.com
I have been gaming with one of my Li’l Magnum! fingertip gaming mice for the last three months. The model I am currently using weighs 16.4 …| blog.patshead.com
I don’t know how exciting this is. The Asus Vivobook Flip 14 is not a bleeding-edge piece of hardware. It is definitely not one of the nicest 2 …| blog.patshead.com
So, you’ve decided that you want to build your own NAS. I bet you’re investigating hard drive prices and your options for RAID levels. At …| blog.patshead.com
I bought a couple of MokerLink 2.5-gigabit switches back in September. One lives in my office. The other lives in my network cupboard on the other …| blog.patshead.com
For a long time now, I’ve been thinking that the wall behind my arcade cabinet is rather bare. At first I thought I should find some sort of …| blog.patshead.com
Our cocktail arcade cabinet build is finally completed. I’m very pleased with how everything came together. The quality of the cabinet ended up …| blog.patshead.com
I have wanted to build an arcade cabinet for a very long time. I finally decided to stop thinking about doing it and actually do it! Some of the …| blog.patshead.com
When I first migrated my virtualized homelab stuff from my old Debian with KVM and virt-manager to a mini PC running Proxmox, I knew I would want to eventually have some sort of cluster manager. It didn’t take long before I had Proxmox running on a second Mini PC at home, and this week I am migrating my off-site Raspberry Pi’s Seafile server to another mini PC running Proxmox.| Patshead.com Blog
I started the journey towards the Li’l Magnum! when I printed a large skeletal shell from MakerWorld for a fake Logitech F304 mouse that you …| blog.patshead.com
I have listed the 3D printed Li’l Magnum! mouse mod kit in my Tindie store. I would prefer that you print your own. I would be excited if you would use this as an opportunity to spend $180 on a Bambu A1 Mini 3D printer so you could print a Li’l Magnum! for yourself and your friends, but I also understand that not everyone can or would even want to own a 3D printer, and I would like to see more people trying out the Li’l Magnum! for themselves.| Patshead.com Blog
The title of this blog is bordering on nonsense. You need at least a few qualifiers to determine if one thing is better than another. If you can& …| blog.patshead.com
This won’t just be advice on how to successfully print a solid Li’l Magnum! mouse mod that feels right. I will also talk about things you will need to go along with your Li’l Magnum! like PTFE skates and grip tape.| Patshead.com Blog
I said I wasn’t going to write another mouse blog right away. It is the only topic I have written about so far this year. I definitely feel …| blog.patshead.com
I have been visiting r/sovol quite often since I bought my Sovol SV06. It is a lot off fun to see how other people are getting along with their …| blog.patshead.com
I bought a 3D printer. I’ve wanted one ever since reading about the old MakerBot Cupcake almost five years ago. Now I finally have one, and I& …| blog.patshead.com
I’m not new to the world of Infiniband. I bought a pair of 20-Gigabit Mellanox Infiniband cards in 2016 to connect my desktop PC to my virtual …| blog.patshead.com
What have Pat and Brian been up to lately? To find out you can check out the latest episodes of The Butter, What?! Show Of course you can. There is …| blog.patshead.com
I’ll tell you about everything I’ve learned so far, but let’s start with what you really want to know. Should you upgrade your …| blog.patshead.com
I have been avoiding a monitor upgrade for as long as I could. I have been running a pair of QNIX QX2710 monitors at my desk for nearly a decade. …| blog.patshead.com
I’ve been thinking about buying a new video card for a long time. I probably started seriously considering it the day my 1440p QNIX QX2710 …| blog.patshead.com
I am excited. A more affordable $22 VXE Dragonfly R1 SE Plus arrived at my door two hours ago. I disassembled it immediately and started test fitting it into one of my spare Li’l Magnum! shells for my Dragonfly R1 Pro. It was close to a good fit! The screw holes don’t quite line up, but they were close, and I had to add a holster for the R1 SE’s lens.| Patshead.com Blog
I am just going to put the tl;dr right up at the front. I wanted something like Optimum Tech’s Zeromouse. I tried the fake Logitech G304 …| blog.patshead.com
It is probably obvious that I asked ChatGPT to assist me in writing the title for this blog. I am not terribly pleased with it. This title is about …| blog.patshead.com
I haven’t had Smart Queue Management (SQM) enabled on my Openwrt router in a very long time. I am not even sure if what I was using in the …| blog.patshead.com
This is going to be a short post, because I don’t have a lot to say. I am sure you have been seeing the hubbub lately about how you can print ABS on top of a layer of PLA while keeping the bed temperature way down at 60C. I am mostly just here to tell you that it works, and it works extremely well!| Patshead.com Blog
The simple answer is no. The Intel N100 is slow and only has single-channel RAM. You’re not going to get any work done chatting at a reasonably sized and capable LLM on your Celeron N100 mini PC.| Patshead.com Blog
UPDATE: This is a fun read, but don’t print this! I have put together a 21.5-gram fingertip mouse for the VXE Dragonfly R1 mice. This is built …| blog.patshead.com
The physical aspects of this upgrade project have been finished for quite a while now. This write up has just been on hold waiting for me to borrow a …| blog.patshead.com
I was over at my friend Brian Moses’s house for pizza last night, and as soon as I walked in the door, he handed me one of the NanoKVM units …| blog.patshead.com
I am quite grumpy about both cloud AI and local AI. I just can’t figure out where I want to land, and I don’t even want to choose just …| blog.patshead.com
I ordered and installed a pair of MokerLink 2.5-gigabit Ethernet switches in my home about two weeks ago. I put an 8-port managed switch with one 10- …| blog.patshead.com
I am changing course again. I used to have a small 40-gigabit Infiniband network segment in my home office. This was necessary at the time because I …| blog.patshead.com
I very nearly typed “so you don’t have to” as the end of this blog post’s title, but that wouldn’t be the least bit …| blog.patshead.com
I am not some sort of machine-learning enthusiast. I am not trying to shoehorn large language models into every problem I encounter. I am just a dude …| blog.patshead.com
First of all, I am NOT saying that you should buy a Sovol SV06. I wholeheartedly believe that the Bambu A1 Mini is by far the best $200 3D printer, …| blog.patshead.com
Am I trying to win Brian Moses’s DIY NAS 2023 giveaway?! Have you seen this thing? It looks both amazing and adorable, and it packs so much …| blog.patshead.com
I don’t know for certain that I have enough to say here to justify writing an entire blog post, but let’s see what happens! It has been a …| blog.patshead.com
I am writing way too many blogs about mini PCs lately, so I definitely wasn’t planning on publishing this. As I was staring at the graph, I …| blog.patshead.com
First of all, I don’t trust Microsoft to do a good job keeping our data safe. My recollection of history makes me feel that Microsoft’s …| blog.patshead.com
There is just so much to like about the Sovol SV08 on paper. A solid-looking Voron clone running Klipper with a massive 350 mm cube of build volume …| blog.patshead.com
I am not sure how to write this blog post without implicating myself in any shady, nefarious, or illegal activities. I will do my best. I used to rip …| blog.patshead.com
I am excited about the Sovol Comgrow T300. I don’t think I would ever pay $550 for this printer, but its print volume is at least 44 mm bigger …| blog.patshead.com
Let’s get this out of the way immediately. A mini PC with an Intel N100 processor is almost definitely the wrong device to plug into your TV to …| blog.patshead.com
Was it ACTUALLY cheaper to buy a second mini PC than to upgrade the RAM in my existing N100 server? It depends on how you look at it. In the most …| blog.patshead.com
I shop for a new Android tablet a couple of times each year. I don’t want a giant iPad-sized tablet. I want a tablet that is much bigger than …| blog.patshead.com
I have had Proxmox running on my Intel N100 mini PC for at least a week so far. It hadn’t been doing any real work until I migrated my first …| blog.patshead.com
I expected to write this blog AFTER all my virtual machines were migrated to the new hardware, but I am impatient, and I am recording enough …| blog.patshead.com
I am a fan of Dropbox-style file sync services. I’m not a fan of letting someone else have the keys to access my encrypted data. Back in 2013, …| blog.patshead.com
The $299 Bambu A1 Mini has been shipping for a few months now. It is fast. You get so much for your money. It seems reliable. Bambu has great quality …| blog.patshead.com
I promise. I am not trying to be a 3D-printing blog, but I got a new toy, so this is where my thoughts keep landing right now. First of all, I do not …| blog.patshead.com
No! I do not regret ordering my Bambu A1 Mini combo in November! I have been printing with it almost every day for the last two weeks, and it has …| blog.patshead.com
Earlier this month, I wrote about ordering myself a Bambu A1 Mini 3D Printer. I could rehash all the reasons why I chose to add an A1 Mini to my …| blog.patshead.com
Writing these sorts of blogs is starting to feel like a tradition, and it would feel weird not to do it. I buy a thing. I don’t know what I am …| blog.patshead.com
NOTE: In my attempt to call attention to the problems, all photographs are lit and angled in a way that most highlight any printing imperfections. …| blog.patshead.com
I am not even close to the end of this journey. I haven’t even decided where this journey is going to end. I installed Michael Hill’s …| blog.patshead.com
I am not even sure about the direction this post is going to take. I had a pretty reasonable blog nearly completed over the weekend, which discussed …| blog.patshead.com
I put off a GPU upgrade for as long as I could. I had been running an Nvidia GTX 970 since 2014. It served me well for quite a long time, but by the …| blog.patshead.com
This blog won’t have any how-to documentation. I don’t even know for sure if everything I think I know about my new AMDGPU software setup …| blog.patshead.com
A lot can happen in a week. My neighbor stopped by to ask which of the 3D printers at Microcenter he should buy. I told him no way. These all cost …| blog.patshead.com
I can’t believe I did this. I am not entirely sure why I decided that I had to pull the trigger. I suspect it was the price of the refurbished …| blog.patshead.com
It was about eleven years ago when I helped my friend Brian Moses run Ethernet to every room in his house. Once he decided that the router and …| blog.patshead.com
This is hugely unexciting. I replaced my Nvidia GTX 970 with a lower end GPU that was launched two years ago. Isn’t that boring? It is only in …| blog.patshead.com
I am excited! I have been working toward this goal for quite some time. As I am writing this, I am migrating data off my server’s old RAID 10 …| blog.patshead.com