George's Techblog

Counterfeit storage devices, such as USB flash drives and SSDs with modified controller firmware that report false capacities, rely on address wrapping: writes beyond physical memory silently overwrite earlier blocks modulo the actual capacity.

I’ve found the vscode copilot error “No lowest priority node found” to be about a context overflow somewhere in the chain “inference engine” -> “LLM” -> copilot.

When trying to enable the discrete NVIDIA GPU of the Acer Nitro ANV15-41[ANV], the graphical login screen “hangs”: the OS works fine, but won’t accept keyboard or touchpad input, which makes it unusable.

In a previous post [GM4] we ran gemma4 12B on a 16GB RAM budget; today we’ll push the envelop and run deepseek-r1:14b-qwen-distill-q4_K_M on the same budget.

Suddenly the Flatpak version of VLC on Ubuntu stopped playing video files directly from a network fileshare (SMB/windows share) mounted via Nautilus.

The Nitro V15 supports battery protection via min/max charge levels, but Ubuntu doesn’t talk the hardware protocol out of the box.

Basic idea Project capabilities This project [DEM] packages OmniParser into a reusable, isolated Docker [DOC] container exposing a standard web server endpoint.

4 years ago I wrote about my Android phone work profile setup [WPS].

Google released Gemma 4 12B today.

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) fascinates me [DEMO].