Recently I was doing some benchmarking on my Ubuntu 22.04 PC, and as part of that benchmarking, I tried setting the CPU performance profile to performance . In the old days, this was not an issue, but it seems that modern Ubuntu only 'knows' about balanced and power-saver . Apparently performance is forbidden these days!

$ powerprofilesctl list* balanced:    Driver:     placeholder  power-saver:    Driver:     placeholder

The problem was, I had set the profile to performance :

$ powerprofilesctl set performance

My Dad and I just posted a new video on the Geerling Engineering YouTube channel where we explored the tallest radio tower in the St. Louis metro area, the so-called 'Supertower' that has a 10-station combined dual FM antenna system (dual 4-bay FMVee by Dielectric) at the top:

I asked him about how the audio gets routed through the transmitter site, how HD (digital) and analog signals are mixed, how that's all routed a giant combiner room with 9"

Last week Microsoft started selling their $599 Windows Dev Kit 2023 , formerly known as 'Project Volterra'.

I got my hands on one after a little bit of a shipping delay, and promptly started tearing it down to see what's inside. You can click here to browse the entire Twitter thread where I posted pictures of the box contents and teardown, or view it below:

Windows Dev Kit 2023 (aka "Project Volterra") has arrived. Box is fine

The blog post Streaming services lost the plot detailed how streaming services have become the thing they were made to destroy.

Like cable networks and satellite companies before, they're raising rates (at a rate higher than inflation), stuffing their content libraries with filler that's not even worth the bandwidth to stream it, and shoving ads in paying users' faces.

And in my first video of this two-part series, I showed how I rip Blu-Rays and DVDs into my computer .

Today, I

The following error has been the bane of my existence for the past few months:

TASK [geerlingguy.containerd : Ensure containerd is started and enabled at boot.] ***fatal: [instance]: FAILED! => {  "changed": false,  "cmd": "/bin/systemctl",  "msg": "Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory",  "rc": 1,  "stderr": "Failed to connect to bus: No such

I've used Handbrake for years, to transcode practically any video file—including ripped DVDs and Blu-Rays—so I can watch the videos on practically any device. It's especially helpful for .mkv files, which can have a hodgepodge of video formats inside, and are notoriously difficult to play back, especially on older or more locked down playback devices.

But Handbrake's achilles heel, as a GUI-first application, is in a lack of easy batch operation. You

I have a few ASUSTOR NASes at my house, and I don't like installing a custom application just to identify the NAS so I can visit it's web UI the first time.

The official ASUSTOR getting started guide recommends installing ASUSTOR Control Center , which does a good job of identifying ASUSTOR devices on your network. And that's about it.

But behind the scenes, it's likely just scanning your network and matching any MAC addresses in Asustek's range. Which is easy to do without

At AnsibleFest 2022, I presented Ansible for the Homelab .

In the presentation, I gave a tour of my homelab, highlighting it's growth from a modem and 5-port switch to a full 24U rack with a petabyte of storage and multiple 10 gigabit switches!

Then I spent some time discussing how various components are automated using Ansible, mostly using open source projects on GitHub.

Unfortunately for attendees, the room my session was in was packed, and a lot of people who wanted