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Latest — Jun 17, 2022

Audio Nirvana

Notes on setting up an audiophile-ish music listening room The current setup in the living room is a 5.2.4 dolby atmos system which I find to be tuned mostly for Home Theatre (Movies and TV Shows) and it lacks the subtlety and clarity of music listening. The goal

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Moving from a Distributive to an Accumulating Investment Fund.

> Caveat: The post below is not a financial advise. I am not a certified or trained financial adviser. This is just a log of my own experience with investing. When I started my investment journey. I did not really understand the difference between a distributed Index fund / ETF and an

Keeping things simple with a 2 Fund portfolio Investment Portfolio

> Caveat: The post below is not a financial advise. I am not a certified or trained financial adviser. This is just a log of my own experience with investing. Some times in March 2021, I made 3 changes to my investment portfolio. Before now I had a 4 fund portfolio:

From 0 to 3 Megawatt Hours of Solar Electricity - Part 1

This is a story of how I became carbon neutral in my electricity usage and have over 80% of my electricity consumption in the last 5 years supplied by renewable energy from solar How it Started I have always been interested in solar energy. If you like me live in

My Journey from Naira to Dollar Denominated Investment.

> Caveat: The post below is not a financial advise. I am not a certified or trained financial adviser. This is just a log of my own experience with investing. My Journey started some years back when I decided that the Nigerian currency, The Naira was just too volatile and unstable.

Low Light Photography

So decided to test out the much hyped Google Pixel’s low light photography fantasticness. So one night took a walk around the neighbourhood to get some air from over 3 months of lock down. Decided to test out the Pixel low light photography capability… To say I was impressed

Lightning, Fan, and Warranty Issues

My house was affected during a thunderstorm about a Saturday ago. The good news was non major damage was sustained to both human and appliances. Bad news was the lightning attack knocked out the temperature sensor circuit of my inverter. At first I did not notice anything was amiss. The

Fixing Windows / Screen Tearing on Intel Graphic Card - Linux

I had some mild / serious screen and window tearing problems when moving windows, scrolling through the browser and the general KDE Plasma UI could be a bit laggy. The problem was reduced if I switched my rendering backend from OpenGL 2.0((Hardware rendering – the default) to Xrender (Software rendering)

Felicity Inverter - A short Review.

Bit of a Background (You can skip to the Review Proper) About a year ago I started my journey into energy independence and sustainability by dabbling into renewable energy, after months of planning my offgrid setup finally came on live. I started with 2 240w solar panels, a 24v Sukam

An 800va Inverter, 250w solar panel and 200AH Battery

Poster on Nairaland asked this question. Re: Solar Energy, A Complement To FTA [http://www.nairaland.com/390522/solar-energy-complement-fta/264#57724106]by BasedOnB [http://www.nairaland.com/basedonb]:1:34pmHello everyone, i need some quick advice here please. I have a 800 VA sukam inverter, a 250 W panel, and