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Live cooling telemetry worked, but every status read interrupted my Corsair Commander CORE lighting. The honest fix was to stop polling.

Deep sleep exposed Radeon, Thunderbolt, and USB resume failures. The usable workaround was not real sleep.

A Linux installation exposed a hidden dependency between Apple's T1 chip and firmware stored on the EFI System Partition.

The boring architecture decision that makes Forexizer cheap, fast, and resilient.

A war story from building Forexizer, a subscription position size calculator for traders.

Repurposing a Mac Mini into a secure, private homelab: Jellyfin streaming, Tailscale access, Pi-hole ad-blocking, and the joys of self-hosting without exposing anything to the internet.

Two years later: Arch Linux on desktop, Proton Pass + YubiKey, Siri gone, and a Framework + GrapheneOS future in sight.

From basic tweaks to encrypted tools and planned GrapheneOS/Linux leaps: my real, ongoing path to reclaiming digital privacy