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Small review of the MeshPocket QI2.

We travel a lot. Hang out in a lot of airports. Thus, we couldn't take our Heltec V3 with us to the airport because well!! That bodge solder job is going to make a TSA agent worry a little bit. But also near the end of my travel cases blog, we went on a bit of a rant about how to survive being in the airport. Saving one on the trip from going to one of those hipster bloggers about travel. Part of that blog talked about battery packs. On how it's important to have one, as you are never supposed to trust a single outlet that an airport provides to you. It's not the maintenance team's fault that outlets get worn out and destroyed. Some of those spaces within the terminal were not meant to be over capacity all of the time; space is money, and these airways cram as much as they can with as little sitting space as possible.

So when my original 8000Mah battery started to feel like a 500Mah battery (testing it on my lithium charger, one of the four cells was functional. Last cell held a charge at 550Mah, original rating at 2,300Mah.) Which is fine. had it for 5 years. beat the hell out of it. Forgot it in my travel bag for over a few months and it committed lithium seppiku. It's time for a new one.

And placing this review on Amazon is pointless when we have our very own website to post to.

So why not get a battery pack that has LoRa built in? Read on if you want to know more.

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A review from the realm of I2P incoming!

In our journeys of checking all things throughout the alt-net, we check to see if we still exist out there. One article caught our eye..

We got a review from "NotBob" - http://notbob.i2p/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?page=397. Read on if you want to know more!

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Hello, magic printer that gave me a job and fed me in the early 2010s.

If you work in an environment where you have to constantly ship physical goods out the door. Hell, if you've even visited the post office and had a clerk print you a label. You've probably seen a thermal label printer in your life. During the 2010s the job market was certainly turbulent times with many phone jobs getting moved overseas. And field repair being sourced to the lowest bidder instead of asking the question if it's even the RIGHT company/technician that can do such a job. A lot of carelessness resulted in us having to rethink our careers.

For the first article, where we take you on a crash course in thermal printer repair, click here.
For the second article, where we teach you out to use common raster programs for these printers - Click here for Adobe or here for GIMP.

Read into my diatribes for the revisit of this topic!

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We're back at it again!

For those who witnessed our first sleeper PC blog, our second sleeper PC blog, and finally putting a stupid fan into said sleeper PC.. Thank you. Hardware hacking articles are super fun to write. This opens up opportunities again to hack modern technology into ancient gear. This time around, a Gigabyte Strix H370F into an IBM X205 E-Server.

Care to read more? Enter the diatribe!

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All the questions. All the time!

Although no one tagged me to answer the question challenge. It's something that we read in our RSS feed in which SizeOf(Cat) answered. It seems like a fun article to do. Thus, I don't need your tagging!:D

Read on if you would like to know more.

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Sometimes, you gotta get out. Touch grass. Walk around downtown. Hang out at your local coffee house while hipsters come up to you asking for money. Offer them your still wrapped chocolate muffins if they publicly state that the B52s are and always will be a terrible band. Only for the profanities to fly as they storm out the shop in a fit of rage. When in reality, they could've just complied, eaten the muffin, and resended his statement. But during all this, I've gotten into a cheap electronic hobby of LoRa, which is low (as in 900-915Mhz in the States) frequency radio hunting.

For those who aren't feeling like getting into my diatribes. It's like a cross between Citizen-Band Radio mixed with instant messaging. Oh, and you can encrypt your messages which somehow scares the shit out of univercities as it could promote "Anarchy" or some bullshit like that. Saved you a fuckload of time.

Read on to continue downward the spiral.

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The little browser is back.

Although they are now on version 3.2.0; Verison 3.1.0 of Dillo was brought back to life by a developer by the name of Rodrigo Arias Mallo in 2024 with the first release adding SSL support to this browser. Dillo born in 1999 which is right at the Dot-com explosion of browsers and ways for people to access the internet. Dillo was ultra-light weight and had minimalistic features that at the time were not required on the internet. In fact, back when we were playing with RedHat Linux. Dillo was included in distros because we were loading it on old machines, like a 486 as an example. And for as limiting as that may be to launch a browser on a 25Mhz CPU. Dillo responded very well back in its day.

Want to check it out yourself? The actual website is here at https://dillo-browser.github.io/ .

Would you like to know more? Read onwards into the downward spiral!

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No, not dead.

For starters. Happy New Year out there. We didn't do anything extravagant like go to a garage filled with video games or go to Illinois to visit a group of people that resent me. Nah! We just stayed home and played a little bit of System Shock. Be told how we're terrible people by a fictional AI named "Shodan". The article was originally supposed to come out in October but kinda stopped mid-writing on this.

I'd find a picture with Lesbians holding Guns. But we think us just saying it is enough to freak out the AI content filters. Beyond this, a lot of background work has been happening throughout my site. For starters:

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