Dell Wyse 3040 CMOS CR2032 Battery Replacement

By Michael McGarrah · July 15, 20245 min read

Replacing the proprietary CMOS battery connector on Dell Wyse 3040 thin clients using heat shrink tubing and standard CR2032 cells — $23 for nine units versus $90 for pre-made replacements.

Sharing file systems between WSLv2 instances

By Michael McGarrah · June 19, 20243 min read

Sharing 500GB of ML models and repos between WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 instances using bind mounts in /etc/fstab without duplicating data.

Hard Drives for the Homelabs

By Michael McGarrah · June 10, 20241 min read

Storage has hit a penny per GB. A 20TB renewed drive for $200 and a 20TB USB-C enclosure for $220 make the math work for a Ceph offsite backup strategy.

Backlog of Posts

By Michael McGarrah · June 04, 20244 min read

A mid-2024 status dump of unpublished drafts and stalled projects: site-to-site VPN, LAG/LACP, PiKVM, Ceph performance, Kubernetes, and a growing media server backlog.

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2024-07-15 Dell Wyse 3040 CMOS CR2032 Battery Replacement
2024-06-19 Sharing file systems between WSLv2 instances
2024-06-10 Hard Drives for the Homelabs
2024-06-04 Backlog of Posts