Journal of Timothy Kenno Handojo

Migrating to a VPS Server

To spice things up a bit, I've decided to move from shared hosting into a VPS. I managed to find a cheap VPS service and paid for half a year. The OS is Debian 12, of course.

Before I began, I installed all the necessary packages with

apt install certbot nginx-light php-fpm python3-certbot-ngi...

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Lesson of the day: do not leave your moka pot cooking unattended.

Just migrated the theme of this site to Lingonberry.

Was using Gateway theme.

I find this one to be cleaner.

Building a W530 with coreboot

While waiting for the parts to get shipped to me, I played with the BIOS flash, trying to get coreboot on it as I did with the X230.

Acquiring BIOS blobs

Like the X230, this one comes with two flash chips. The difference is that instead of positioned top & bottom, this one is left & right.

The...

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Building a W530 Laptop From Parts

Got myself a Thinkpad W530 motherboard with K2000M with my name on it.

w530-motherboard

Literally!

I initially bought this motherboard to replace the original one in my existing W530 laptop with K1000M GPU. I even took it apart and got the motherboard out. However, I wasn't able to get it to work somehow. As I...

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