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ChromeOS Chromebooks have been around for a while now, and ChromeOS continues to add and improve on it’s capabilities. Aside from playing the occasional video game on Epic or Steam, my Chromebook is my primary device for media consumption, coding, blogging, etc. Neverware CloudReady ChromeOS has only been available to those that buy a Chromebook or Chromebox until a company called Neverware found a way to use the OpenSource version of ChromeOS and Chromium to be installed on almost any PC hardware....

Koen van Zeijl recently posted a fantastic guide Toggle Philips Hue Depending on Your PC State for accessing the API of your Philips Hue Bridge in order to control lights from PowerShell and Windows task scheduler. I thought it would be fun to create a guide for using curl and bash for basic Hue automation in Linux. We’ll start with making sure the Huge Bridge can be accessed from a static IP address....

As we look back, 2020 will be remembered but maybe not in the way that many of us thought. 2020 is behind us now, so it’s time to look forward to seeing what 2021 will bring us. Happy New Year! Here’s a fun little one-liner to count down to 2024 in the Linux terminal. until [ $V == 0 ];do clear;V=$((`date +%s -d"2024-01-01"`-`date +%s`)); \ figlet $(python -c 'import time;print time....

I’ve been messing around with my new Creality CR-6 SE 3D printer recently. It’s a fantastic printer if you can overlook it’s newness flaws. 3D prints are typically created with a CAD application and saved to a .stl file. The .stl file then needs to be converted to gcode or “sliced” using a slicer application. Cura by Ultimaker is good slicer, but it does not currently have a printer profile for the Creality CR-6 SE 3D printer....