Just got this today. Samsung M7 32" Smart Monitor, 4K UHD with Streaming TV, Speakers and USB-C.
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Damn, those Black Fridays. This robo vacuum cleaner sale was too good to pass. So far it has done pretty good job. But it has weird obsession to our kitchen. Little fellow stubbornly goes back there all over again even it has been cleaned alreadyâŚ
Btw, I named it âMarvinââŚ.
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We named ours Rosie Woodhouse
Rosie - robot maid from the Jetsons
Woodhouse - butler from Archer
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Marvin, who wants to find something delicious to eat within the kitchen.
Seems to be a pretty normal coping mechanism for a Robot called Marvin.
Can't find my most favorite snack. Must check again.
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Damn, I thought we didnât need new pan, but now I definitely want that!
And of course they donât sell that particular item in Finland⌠
They are quite nice, indeed. And itâs a pity that this form factor is dominated by Intel.
Zen 5 based CPUs arenât available for that market yet and the current Zen4 based chips are a bit on the pricey side at the moment.
*edit: typo.
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Got a GMKtec mini-pc to replace my old Raspberry Pi 3 B+ I have been using as my DNS server running Pi-hole to block ads.
This new device has a 12th gen Alder Lake Intel N100 processor, came with 8gb DDR4 ram, but i had a 16gb stick laying around so swapped that out, a 256gb NVME 2280 drive and a slot for another 2242 NVME board (both slots up to 2TB), has WiFi6 but i use the 2.5gbs eth port
Itâs just running Debian 12.8 and Pi-hole, working as my home network DNS. Got it for like $130 so very happy with it. Also had a Win11 Pro license that came with it (Win11 was preinstalled, but that was wiped at first boot LOL!)
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I use this with Proxmox. So easy to set things up.
And yes, $130 is a nice price. And is so much faster than a Pi.
But only for Pi-Hole? You can run so much more on it.
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yeah, not sure what all i will do with this thing. might get a 2tb nvme for it and do some network storage off it at the very least
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PiHole doesnât even push a Raspi 3b to its limits.
Iâve used a NanoPi Neo exactly for that purpose. Until I switched to external DNS services which are providing blocklists as well. And that Arm Cortex A7 quadcore chip with 512mb of RAM and a 100gb ethernet port was plenty enough to host PiHole as well as an VPN server.
A Raspi Zero would be sufficient to host PiHole.
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Just an Arduino Nano clone for a hardware tinkering project of mine, waiting for the other things to arrive.
Instead of itâs ATmega328P i might be ending up using an ATmega32U4 instead. As it provides 0.5 kb more SRAM 
and Iâll need the USB libraries eventually.
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Iâve been a Ramen Noodles fan for years. Expanding a bit beyond the âsame old, same old.â So, got me some Indonesian instant noodles. Specifically, Indomie. 30 bags, 6 flavors, 2 variations: 3 flavors of Indomie goreng (fried noodles served without soup) and 3 flavors of Indomie kuah (noodles served with soup).
CANâT WAT! 
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I donât need ramen to survive, I just need proper light sources that please my eyes. And due to black friday deals, I couldnât refuse. Itâs not a proper Ambilight, but should do the trick as well, for a fraction of the price.
As Iâve got an 34" ultra wide monitor, the horizontal strips included in the set are a tight fit, the vertical strips are
at least an inch to long. And required a bit of wire management ⌠Sadly one solder joint broke during that procedure and had to pullout the soldering iron to fix it.
That system doesnât rely on a video source, but on an fisheye camera which has to be calibrated to capture the screen colors. Comes with an app for the smartphone to do the job.
Currently dialing it in. Looking forward for some 21:9 movie time to explore who good that product is.
There is definitely a bit of response time. Which wonât be the case if the light strip would pick the colors based on an direct video source.
The Phillips Hue Sync Box 4k on its own, without lights or their controller, would be four times the price of these TV lights.
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Pretty tricky to dial in properly. Havenât found the (brightness) sweet-spot yet 
In terms of color controls ⌠The smartphone app is a bit finicky and it doesnât allow for color matching. Only manual white balancing. In general, the fisheye camera seems only to capture the colors in a few zones. And itâs not really that much controlable, the colors are slightly off. Thus, the immersion might not be that good as the considerably more expensive solution from the Phillips Hue line of products.
There are some APIs available on github which may work a bit better and wonât require the smartphone apps. Maybe Iâll tinker around with that. Or will just leasve it that way for the time being.
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