The fomori blog is a collection of hacks and thoughts of devsnd and 6arms1leg.
Hey, it’s been a while. Took me a good ten years since the last blog post, so this one better be worth it! Here’s my problem. Everytime I boot up my framework laptop (Framework Laptop 13 AMD, Ryzen 7 7840U / Radeon 780M), my laptop screen freezes and only my external screen keeps working. There is a manual workaround for this problem, just deactivate the laptop-screen and reactivate it in the…
My friend owns a Syma X12S quadcopter that was cheaply imported from China. It really is an amazing piece of hardware and the perfect entertainment when you spend an evening with friends. Piloting this miniature aircraft is quite easy – it only takes a few flying sessions until you acquired enough skills to handle it. However, I still managed to crash the quadcopter in a way that damaged two of…
I recently bought myself a projector, which I installed in one corner of the room. Unfortunately I didn’t buy a long enough HDMI cable with it, so I could not connect it to my desktop computer and instead used my loyal ThinkPad T60 for playback. But I also wanted to be able to play some games using the projector, for which my laptop wasn’t beefy enough. So I thought, why not just stream the games…
If you happen to own an Epson EH-TW5200 projector, you might have experienced problems setting Full-HD (1920×1080) resolution using a VGA connection under linux. When I set the resolution to Full-HD, the whole screen would stay completely black. This is just a quick fix for the other 4 people that might have this problem.
I recently bought a new home server, the Odroid XU3-Lite to replace my poor man’s home server I called the thin-server, to run CherryMusic and the like.
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I am a big fan of using foam rollers for myofascial release , especially after workout. There are a lot of foam roller products for myofascial trigger point treatment out there, but I am too cheap to buy a piece of recycled plastic pressed into a cylindrical form for 20 EUR or higher. This is one of the easiest DIY projects possible, so make your own! The standard foam rollers of different sizes…
A friend asked me to repair her friends Samsung Galaxy S3 mobile phone, that had a broken glass screen/digitizer, so I had a closer look at it. The process of replacing the glass screen/digitizer on a Samsung Galaxy S3 is straight forward and not many tools are needed. However, what you really need is patience… a lot of it.
At the end of last year I went to a sports and health fair, where I wanted to have a closer look at the available natural running shoes, especially the ones from Vibram (FiveFingers) and Leguano . Both type of shoes were comfortable and seemed to be of good quality. However, with an above the 70 EUR price range, they are quite expensive for a shoe that aims to be like no shoe at all. In fact, they…
QCAD is a great free and open source CAD software. Although limited to 2D design, it is my favorite tool for drafting, construction and simple sketches. It is well documented overall, but one issue I could not find a solution for, was how to label dimensions with symbols, special characters or certain font styles (bold, italic, super-/subscript). This blog post provides a simple trick to get it…