Overengineering (or over-engineering) is the act of designing a product or providing a solution to a problem that is complicated in a way that provides no value or could have been designed to be simpler. Ciò che segue è il frutto di un momento di forte rabbia verso: la scarsa qualità dell’elettronica di consumo, il…
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Sostituzione frecce anteriori Beta Alp 4.0 2008
Dopo tutte le avventure passate insieme, la freccia dx anteriore del mio Alp si è lasciata andare. Senza urti, senza niente, si è soltanto… stancata. E vabbè; poco male, vado dal meccanico di zona Beta, mi dice “Eh non ordino più ricambi per quella moto, forse la prossima settimana mi arriva un paio di compatibili…”…
The adventure of repairing a MFC-L5750DW printer
What and why I just got a broken Brother MFC-L5750DW from the trash bin. Soon as it’s connected to the network the printer restarts. Sometimes it also shows ‘Receiving data…’ and restart after a while. I wanted to play with it because I just felt it’s a ‘soft’ error and there is some hope to…
Hard disk spin down on OMV5 / ODROID-HC2
Another quick update on my ODROID-HC2 / OMV setup. This time it’s only interesting the same specific hardware and may not apply on other boards. I was unable to set the hard disk idle spindown time with hdparm or the OMV Gui. After some readings, it turns out that the spindown is directly controller by…
OMV5 Installation on ODROID-HC2 with Windows previous version / btrfs snapshots support
I started playing with OpenMediaVault (OMV) years ago, but never fully configured it or documented the steps needed to get it up and running. Just after one SD failing later, I decided to write down everything, maybe it can be useful to someone. Hardware side, I’m using the ODROID-HC2 from Hardkernel. It’s a great little…