LVM thin pools are great. I love them. They offer a great deal of flexibility especially combined with autoextend functionality. The idea is to keep your pools as small as possible and let them autoextend whenever needed. So if the pool is always as small as possible, why do you need to shrink it?
Probably everyone who has an interest in single-board computers knows the Raspberry Pi. A slightly different and cheaper variant is the Orange Pi. This manufacturer… Read More »Orange Pi GPIO pinouts
As I frequently reinstall my OS (for various reasons) but in the mean time I still want to be able to access my old OS for daily use, I do a lot resizing of filesystems and partitioning of my hard disk. When the time has come to use the new OS installation as a daily driver, I like to reclaim my old OS space so I can have all the space available.
In every modern home nowadays, there are at least one or more home automation devices. Probably the most used kind of devices are smart thermostats. Often energy companies have there own devices which you can buy with a discount if you take a contract with them as well. There are also some standalone devices from third parties available on the market. Regardless of which device you choose, they all have roughly the same benefits over a standard thermostat: controlling the temperature when away from home, detecting if someone is actually at home and the overall ease of programming.
Just like the Multi-Profile for ASUS AURA, I also created a small batch script for MSI’s Gaming App which lets you save and restore profiles for your MSI RGB LED enabled videocard.