Strav's blog

While my Home Assistant is running OK on my Raspberry Pi, I really want to be able to run the Visual Studio Code app and it only runs on x86 architecture.  Additionally, it would be nice to have a little more power behind HA.  I acquired an Intel Atom based NUC to keep the power requirements down so it's not a huge performance improvement but that combined with a SSD rather than a CF card and a bit more memory do make for some speed improvements. 

Install Home Assistant on an Intel NUC
Home Assistant - Intel NUC
A successful migration from Pi 3 to Intel NUC

On my work computer, there seems to be a Windows policy that sets my default browser to Internet Explorer on bootup.  Since Internet Explorer doesn't work for many of the applications I support, this is a silly policy and wastes my time as I either need to set the default browser to Chrome every boot or copy past URL's instead of clicking them.  This program allows me to override the policy and set the browser the way *I* want it on every boot to counter the Windows policy.

I have a first gen Mac Mini (2006) that I use for Mac specific software on occasion.  It's so old at this point that I can't install most new software, webpages won't load because the browser is so outdated, etc.  With a few modifications, I can get OS X 10.7 Lion installed and eke out a few more years (hopefully).

Mac mini (Late 2006)
OS X 10.7 Lion
CPU Upgrade Options for 2006 and 2007 Mac minis
dosdude1's Personal Web Server (OS Patcher)
How do Install lion on a 2006 macminiWith core 2 duo?
How to Install Lion on any CoreDuo Mac upgraded to a Core2Duo
How to Install OSX Lion: PC/Hackintosh and Thorough

How to add app shortcuts to the Start menu manually on Windows 10

I had an issue recently where yum update did not work.  Here is a link to a solution that worked for me:

CentOs 7 YUM update not working