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When i recently received a bunch of Alliwava U58  based on the Ryzen 7 5825U i thought i have issues with my hearing at first. They were crazy noisy, especially the fan was awful. After researching a bit, i found a nice solution In the Forum of Alliwava  , a BIOS Update is offered which resolves the issue. After downloading the file C4909086_ShellAuto, the Fan is already a lot more bearable than before (almost no noise under idle). However you can then even adjust the maximum power limit of the CPU to even limit the noise also under load (BIOS -> Advanced -> Power Limit Select). ...

I recently purchased a ESTK.me eSIM Adapter so that i can use eSIMs in my LTE stick for my mobile router. During my research i asked myself on the difference between the ESTKME-AIR, ESTKME-ESS and ESTKME-MEG which are offered by ESTK.me. Product Details ESTKME-AIR Card capacity: 440KB, LIMITED 2 Profiles(eSIM), unlimited delete/reinstall count. All ESTKme functionality available, include STK Download. Support upgrade to unlock profile count limit. ESTKME-ESS Card capacity: 440KB. No further Limits ESTKME-MEG Card usable capacity: 840KB. No further Limits There is a possibility to lift the limitation of the AIR to make a ESS out of it - quite nice.

I recently purchased a ESTK.me eSIM Card Reader “RED” but when trying to connect to it from my Linux Box, i got the following error: 1 SCardListReaders() failed: 8010002E After a bit of research i found the solution here  . The error indicates that the card reader is not connected… ...

I recently purchased a ESTK.me eSIM Card Reader “RED” but when trying to connect to it from my Linux Box, i got the following error: 1 2 SCardEstablishContext() failed: 8010001D APDU driver init failed After a bit of research i found the solution here  . The error indicates that PCSC service is not running. For linux, it’s pcscd service. ...

I own two AsRock DeskMini 310  as a solution for my internal virtualization Infrastructure. Both of them are very reliable but sometimes once they power off they do not turn back on. And since that happened yesterday again i remembered that i never blogged about that ;-) The first time this happened i was quite astonished. I had a power outage and after that, the DeskMini 310 didn’t turn back on. What i tried: ...

Today i researched why my ESXi 7 based virtualization host didn’t accept my second, Realtek RTL8125 based, network adapter. Contrary to the primary one, which is Intel-based, there was not sign of detection in the hypervisor. Unfortunately i then found that - contrary to what i had in mind - VMware actually does not feature any Realtek drivers. Also the drivers that worked until ESXi6 will not work on ESXi 7 as the architecture for the drivers (vmklinux) has changed. ...

From time to time my Home Assistant Instance comes along and wants some love. This time it reported that the disk is full. I checked via the “Terminal & SSH” Addon and found that Home Assistant itself is only about 5Gb of the assigned disk. Where the hell is the data? After a while i remembered that Home Assistant runs as a Container inside a VM and hence the underlying host could be the relevant issue. So i went into the console via the Terminal & SSH Addon and poked around a little. After a while i found the command of the homeassistant supervisor to automatically repair docker issues: ...

During a docker buildx run i ran during the image import into the following error: 1 ERROR: failed to solve: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = failed to extract layer sha256:f877be71d5628e2b297798c066b860bd2c3542b96a80f69367ff0bdebcc06f9e: failed to get stream processor for application/vnd.in-toto+json: no processor for media-type: unknown Possible Solution: By default, BuildKit v0.11 and later adds provenance attestations  to images you build. Set BUILDX_NO_DEFAULT_ATTESTATIONS=1 to disable the default provenance attestations. ...

Ollama, the open-source platform for running powerful AI models locally on your hardware, is gaining traction for its ease of use and accessibility. While it primarily leverages NVIDIA GPUs through CUDA, the world of open-source extends beyond NVIDIA. Today, I’ll show you how to harness the power of an AMD RX 6700 GPU with ROCm to run Ollama, bringing powerful AI capabilities within reach of a wider range of users. ...

Recently i stumbled across the fact that my Sonoff TRVZB (Zigbee Thermostat available via Amazon* ) had the old firmware and i had no update offering in my Home Assistant Instances. Since i’m running ZHA i started investigating why. First of all, i believe it is interesting to see that ZHA is based on zigpy  which implements all the ZigBee features in a handy python library. So whenever something cannot be found or is unclear in the ZHA help pages, a look into the repo of zigpy might help. ...