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My ultimate list of useful ADB commands

January 25, 2024 |

I've been working on Android / AOSP development since 2010 so needless to say I've gathered quite a repertoire of useful ADB commands over the years.

ADB Commands

Set a large logcat buffer (16MB):

adb logcat -G 16M

Enable verbose... Read more


Locked out of Truenas server (2FA stopped working)

September 27, 2023 |

I recently got locked out of my Truenas server Web UI.

I had 2FA enabled and I was certain that my password was correct.

Luckily I had not enabled 2FA on SSH so I was able to gain access that way,

From here I was able to disable and re-enable 2FA using the following commands:

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Jails not auto starting on Truenas

September 13, 2023 |

For some reason not all of my jails would auto start when rebooting truenas.

I don't know exactly what was causing it (neither did I have the time to look any deeper) but I devised this quick and dirty hack as a workaround.

I added a post init command to do the following:

sleep 60 && iocage start...         Read more
        



My 5 minutes of fame: The Sony Competition

January 6, 2022 |

Back in 2014 I got embroiled in a rather amusing online spat with Sony (believe it!) when they tried to run a botched competition for their limited edition PS4 console.

It started as a bit of tinkering/light cheating but I was actually genuinely annoyed by the way the competition was being ran so I decided to publish my... Read more


My Truenas Server

January 5, 2022 |

Welcome to my new blog!

Why have I set this up?

I've been maintaining my own personal server at home for a while now and it's fun to see just how much you can squeeze out of a low powered machine. There's also definitely something satisfying about maintaining your own little piece of physical infrastructure on the... Read more