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Sam Hobbs
Personal blog · samhobbs.co.uksystemshardware
Sam Hobbs's personal blog at samhobbs.co.uk covers systems and hardware. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sam Hobbs's hands-on hardware posts, such as using an OBD-II scan tool on Mercedes cars and moving a Raspberry Pi's root partition to a USB drive. Comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
If you've ever used Docker or deployed an nginx server - then you can very easily deploy a chat server. Pretty much the same thing but over a different protocol. Server getting compromised - that's largely unimportant with end-to-end encryption through OMEMO. Distros also apply security patches (just keep things up to date). You do not require 50 engineers to run a chat server for <200 of your friends. In my experie…
Comment linking /2016/09/installing-prosody-instant-message-chat-server-raspberry-pi-ubuntu
on “Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place”disclosure: im a full-time engine mechanic for a chain of midwestern diesel repair shops. Quite a bit of this data is already at your fingertips! open source OBD readers exist for linux. I use this one regularly to pull and reset codes for older mercedes: https://samhobbs.co.uk/2015/04/scantool-obdii-car-diagnostic... the OBD is the computer in your car for sensors but has turned into a massive repository for anythi…
Comment linking /2015/04/scantool-obdii-car-diagnostic-software-linux
on “Car Owners Should Control Data Collected by Cars”I switched the / (root) partition on the Pi to a USB pen drive. Only /boot is on the SD card. Not sure how it compares to eMMC but certainly faster than micro SD card. [1]: https://samhobbs.co.uk/2013/10/speed-up-your-pi-by-booting-t...
Comment linking /2013/10/speed-up-your-pi-by-booting-to-a-usb-flash-drive
on “ODROID-C2 Compared to Raspberry Pi 3 and Orange Pi Plus”