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Tor Networks for private browsing.

October 27, 2022April 24, 2016 by S-Config

Tor network privacy for the hyper-paranoid internet user.

Tor networks for those seeking privacy from the ever-creeping internet that seems to want to know about your privacy. And no, we're not talking about the government/NSA. They have a hard enough time sending my taxes to the right mailbox. We're mostly talking about corporate data farming. And how we fully support anything that keeps the browsing habits away from governments and corporations only interested in getting the most pay-click out of your site. Whenever you type something into a search engine and suddenly it responds with items that are local only to the area that is a company using your IP address location against you in the hopes that you'll respond better to one of their ads. That in itself is manipulating the internet in some shitty marketing tactic. instead of opening the internet for the user.

Read on if you want to learn more.

Elgato Game Capture HD60 driver issues.

June 8, 2023March 3, 2016 by S-Config

Elgato strikes again with the driver's woes. The Elgato game capture device is one of the devices in my blogging tools for when I decide to do a video blog. Much to my surprise, version 3.0 of their video editing software was released. And upon downloading it the Elgato update tool not only tried to ... Read more

Orange Pi needs to go back into the oven.

July 20, 2024December 18, 2015 by S-Config

Orange Pi - Is it ready for the world?

We received the Orange Pi (Or OrangePi) because like many Pi users, I am always looking for something faster to run emulators and games within the ARM-based universe. Emulation on the Raspberry Pi is good but lags a little for the more CPU intensive emulation like Nintendo 64 as just one example. When Orange Pi initially released their $15 (plus 3 dollar shipping from auction site ali-express) dollar computer featuring a quad-core based arm7 processor at around 1.6ghz. It was certainly worth a try.

Web Isolation – State of the config – fonts and more

March 5, 2020December 8, 2015 by S-Config

Web Isolation, fonts, and the overall state of config that is "S".

It's been a while since I did an update on my website and I want to talk about Web Isolation. Work and being a responsible human being is a brutal thing. There isn't a whole lot of personal blogging that goes on here because I don't think there's anything all that interesting to say about "S-Config" as a person. Instead, I just want to focus on the data instead. And I think everyone agrees it's a way better move. I suppose lets talk about the first aspect of what I have been doing with this Blog which is:

WEBM, OGV, and MP4 – WordPress video

July 2, 2024September 28, 2015 by S-Config

Encoding with WEBM, OGZ, and MP4 and wordpress title.

WebM and the things WordPress was hiding from me.

Originally, I was going to an article on just WebM and the advantages it gives me in WordPress. But as I looked at the logs on my server and WordPress still has a lot of work to do on their video insertion plugin.

Banana Pi Case Mod v2

October 31, 2019September 15, 2015 by S-Config

Banana Pi the Case Mod edition:

In the spirit of my previous blog post dealing with I-Pac mod It's time the Banana Pi gets a face-lift with a new case mod. The reason why I'm doing this comes down to a lot of things that all boil down to the fact that my needs from this unit changed a lot over the years. This blog is just a minor update of what we have been doing in between jobs.

The Six Ouyas

August 23, 2021May 16, 2015 by S-Config

Six Ouyas chilling on eBay - AS-IS.

It was brought to my attention that there was a guy on ebay selling a lot of six Ouyas as-is and I said "why not? let's see whats going on with them". And now I have officially received my Six Ouyas for parts on eBay. The final price I paid for six broken Ouyas was $14.00 + $24.99 S&H from Canada to the US Midwest. I thought it would've gone for a lot more, to be Honest but glad I got it for so low! Anyhow; Allow me to dig into these. As a repair tech, I am super excited about these and am very interested in how Ouyas break and to actually learn from some of these units in the hopes of helping others.

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KingRoot a Virus?

November 10, 2022April 28, 2015 by S-Config

Is the kingroot apk really a virus?

It has come to my attention today with the help of my web admin that there was an APK that I allowed for download to people's Ouya consoles on my site called KingRoot. That will no longer be available here. Continue reading if you want to hear more.

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Lithium Battery charging fun.

June 8, 2023March 12, 2015 by S-Config

Charging Lithium Batteries with various devices.

After my brief stint with Ni-HM batteries, it would a good time to change things up and play with Lithium batteries. I did a lot of research and am still learning as I go along since lithium on the grand scale chart of batteries is the lightest, most powerful, and most dangerous battery to work with.

Web Services blog entry – AnubianHost

March 25, 2023March 2, 2015 by S-Config

The progression from websites of old to AnubianHost is my current site.

I thought I made a blog entry about AnubianHost when I first started my blog. But Anubian Host is the web provider that I use which hosts all of the data that you see before you and keeps it nice and fast to boot. It's been a few years and perhaps it's time I should tell you a little story about why I moved to these guys.