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RetroPie Setup Woes

Original setup was fine and everything worked. Then ran into some issues: No Sound (was testing with snes) 2. No Sound in specific emulators (megadrive/gameboy/nintendo, snes worked per step 1) Delete retroarch.cfg from each emulator under /opt/retropie/configs/<emulator>/ <–it’ll regenerate 3. Backspace doesn’t work as hotkey any more Removing the exit_emulator_btn from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg 4. 2 Player […]


Jenkins setup with github

Go to github, upper right dropdown -> settings -> developer settings -> personal access tokens. make a new token, which you use as your “password” in jenkins. In jenkins, “manage jenkins” -> (scroll down) manage credentials. Create “username with password”. For username use your github username. Password is token above.


linux set static ip

/etc/dhcpcd.conf interface eth0static ip_address=192.168.4.57/24static domain_name_servers=192.168.4.57 8.8.8.8 interface wlan0static ip_address=192.168.4.56/24static domain_name_servers=192.168.4.56 8.8.8.8 This will also set /etc/resolv.conf for dns servers


Tesla Solar Roof V3 Review Part 3

So after sorting out the issue with “alternate roof” from my previous review, the install continued. At this point, the original roof was off. And since work cannot be done over the labor day weekend, my roof was bare for several days, until Tuesday when the crew came back to continue work. So far, these […]


Tesla Solar Roof V3 Review Part 2

Telsa solar roof install. This is classic story about redemption. About how Tesla can thoroughly disappoint its customers. And about why I’m nevertheless very impressed despite the thorough disappointment. So since signing up for Tesla Solar roof back in May, I had 0 communication from Tesla for the next 3 months. There was one call […]


Tesla Solar Roof V3 Review Part 1

My Tesla referral link. So you want to go green and get solar for your house. Is Tesla Solar Roof right for you? This will be a multi-part series for my experience with ordering Tesla Solar roof. Now this is solar ROOF, and not solar panels. This is the new roof offer Tesla has that […]


write error: File too large

If it says “write error: File too large” when you redirect output to a file, e.g.: cat a.txt | sort > blah It may have to do with limitation of the file system’s size (FAT vs ntfs, etc).  Try writing to another directory, such as /tmp or whatever.