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Posts about a particular piece of hardware. Might also include details about how the hardware works with Xubuntu Linux.

Handbrake performance on more than 6 cores

Posted on March 20, 2023

Diminishing returns after 6 cores Handbrake is a video transcoder. It’s normally used to convert and compress video from a format into a more compressed format. Handbrake comes in a command line…

Sometimes a newer computer isn’t better

Posted on February 22, 2023

Most of the time a newer computer *is* better Conventional wisdom dictates the newer a computer is, the better the computer is. This bit of advice generally holds true comparing an earlier…

If I was building a new Media Centre

Posted on February 17, 2023

I could cut corners, but… This evening I went through the exercise of thinking about the parts I would use if I was building a brand new computer to serve as our…

Hardware detection script for *buntu Linux refurbishers

Posted on February 15, 2023

About the script I wrote the hardware.sh BASH script to make it a bit simpler for volunteers at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project to figure out what hardware was in a…

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