Experiments
Notes from building things with code, cameras, and sound. Some of it works.
2026
- Teaching Omarchy to feel like a Mac, then un-breaking it
Rounded corners, zero gaps, 10-bit color, a lid light switched off, and a config reset that ate it all. One afternoon on a fresh Omarchy laptop.
- The Z440 sensors you have to switch on yourself
My HP Z440 Proxmox hosts had fan and ambient sensors the whole time. Linux ships the driver, nothing loads it. Here is what appeared, what else the board exposes, and why I measured before I tuned.
- The hidden HP setting that lets my Z440s boot unattended
My two HP Z440 Proxmox hosts stopped at every POST warning and waited for a human. A two-stage setting HP ships but does not show made them carry on by themselves.