Month: June 2020

USB ISO multiboot script – Ventoy (#P26)

Speaking of the GitHubs on the Interwebs: I’ve been using a somewhat selfmade bash script to make bootable USB media for quite some time now. It’s capable of running ISO files directly from the USB drive and also the option for a separate partition for some Windows WIM extraction, in order to offer bootable Windows install media. As I’m the only user and there’s not that much demand for running different Linuxes at the moment, that script is badly maintained and only got an update when like a new Ubuntu LTS hit the market. […]


Netgear EX6120 OpenWrt support (#P25)

Looks like I missed a post last week…ah well, here it is.
From the bunch of defective hardware that I bought back in March there’s still some repaired access points left. One of the hobbyists that was interested in some EX3700 APs asked about the EX6120 that are more abundant, faster, and not much more expensive. He’s going to revamp his WiFi and wanted some OpenWrt mesh. Well…back then the hardware compatibility list said it was somewhat compatible, because both are closely related and the EX3700 has support. The EX6120 firmware was linked to the EX3700. […]


Sneaked into BigCliveLive (#E14)

As you might have heard already, bigclive(dotcom) is running a separate channel nowadays for live streams such as the occasional Manx Beard Club or the more recent weekly corona streams. It’s called BigCliveLive and I’m obviously subscribed to both of them. Aside from the last two livestreams I’ve watched the entirety of those channels…it should be trivial to find out the total playtime with the very handy youtube_dl tool that I use for all of my YouTube subscriptions, but it’s probably comparable to EEVblog, that is, in the medium to high 100s of hours. […]