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My name is Marcel and this is where I write about stuff that piqued my curiosity. E-mail me directly at marcel@qrys.ch.

Running Spotify on a Kid’s phone, without the age restriction

On January 30, 2020 By Marcel In Android, Customization, Mobile Phone

How to let your kids (under age 13) use spotify. And a what to allow in a pass-rule for a firewall at the same time.

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Remote access to a Microsoft Windows 10 Azure Virtual Machine (VM) with TeamViewer

On January 11, 2020 By Marcel In Azure, Linux

Since I have set up my first Azure Windows VM, I wondered how to best access it. There are many options, with their own limitations: RDP (requires an internet-facing open port) Bastion (requires quite involved …

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Running NxFilter on a headless Raspberry Pi Zero W

On January 5, 2020 By Marcel In Customization, Linux, Raspberry Pi

Note: This post is mostly a revisit of my older post Running NxFilter on a headless Raspberry Pi, using the Zero W model and the current NxFilter version. NxFilter is the best free solution for a …

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Reading 14bit from an SI7021 temperature and humidity sensor

On July 9, 2019 By Marcel In Raspberry Pi, Sensor

The Si7021-A20 is capable of providing up to 14bit resolution for temperature and up to 12bit for relative humidity, over an I2C connection. However, many examples on the internet only use 8bit. I tried to …

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A Raspberry Pi-based weather station, posting to WordPress

On July 4, 2019 By Marcel In Linux, Programming, Raspberry Pi, Sensor

To finally do some hardware stuff again, I decided to create a simple weather station using one of these very small Raspberry Pi Zero modules. To publish the measurements to, I chose to use a …

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Raspberry Zero WH with charging cable attached

Setting up a Raspberry Pi Zero W/WH, the headless way, with Wifi and VNC enabled

On July 2, 2019 By Marcel In Uncategorized

Many have covered this (at least partially), but here’s my ultimate, minimal, quick guide to all the necessary parts, using a Linux box. Use the given commands in a Linux bash terminal. Get the image …

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LineageOS on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 Wi-Fi (2016)

On June 20, 2019 By Marcel In Linux

Steps to install LineageOS on a Samsung Galaxy S2 Tablet

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Try .NET (from your Browser)

On May 28, 2019 By Marcel In Programming

Just the other day, I learnt that .NET can now run in a browser (which got me flashes of silver light… but this time, it’s something else): It’s some kind of a sandbox, that executes …

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Getting rid of all the bloatware – on a SONY Xperia X Compact.

On December 13, 2018 By Marcel In Android, Customization, Mobile Phone

In a recent release of the german c’t magazine, under “Schlanker Roboter” they described the process of getting rid of the many bloatware that comes along with Android Smartphones today. I went with the method using …

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Defecting from Samsung (Android) to an Apple iPhone

On April 7, 2018 By Marcel In Uncategorized

The longest time I have been a happy Samsung phone user, currently with the S4 mini, and liked the ability to flash custom ROM’s like CyanogenMod and it’s sucessor LineageOS. However, having a hard time …

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