What Did You Think This Was?
Raw takes on technology and life from an autistic engineer
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A Homemade Radiator Controller
Ever since moving into my current apartment, I’ve been frustrated that the radiator does not have an easy way to control it, especially the one in my office with its position under an almost-permanently-closed cabinet that I usually store a large pile of stuff on top of. I’d like to continue using that cabinet to…
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The Pulseaudio-Pipewire Frankeinstein that Enables Good-Enough Sound and Camera (PinePhone Pro)
Most of us who use strange (or new) technology are familiar and comfortable with considering tradeoffs. In the Linux phone space, I feel it’s important to be intentional about considering tradeoffs and choosing the right option for myself. After all, I use my phone a lot! Some examples: Clearly I have already come down on…
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On creating a blog, and setting things up more generally
Around January, I bought nicholasroth.net to host my experiments and in case I wanted to do anything with it later. Nothing significant happened to the domain until a few days ago, when I heard Google Domains was shutting down, and I transferred nicholasroth.net to Cloudflare. While I was already in the Cloudflare dashboard, I saw…