Tutorial on Wasd blog

Creative Stage v1 audio lag firmware fix

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Edit: The firmware from Creative support page didnt actually fix the whole problem. See update below.

For a long time I have thought that the initial audio delay when playing video or audio had something do with my OS - Aurora Linux. Turns out it was problem with Cretive Stage v1 soundbar I have. This happens when there has been no audio playing for a while, notably when there is no silent “hiss” coming from the speaker.

Reusing WD MyBook Enclosure (ASMedia chipset)

Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I came across to this Youtube video by Mr Steve. Which showcased how to make existing WD MyBook enclosure to work with any SATA hard drive. I happened to have three existing ones.

The video states that this trick is going to work with ASMedia ASM1151W chip. Now I had one enclosure with this, but the other two used JMicron JMS579 chip.

Close up of the ASMedia ASM1151W chip:

Shucking WD MyBooks

Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most popular ways to get cheap HDD space is to buy external hard drives and “shuck” the drive out of them.
The point is to do this shucking cleanly, so that if you have send it for warranty recall you can put it back in the enclosure.

Before doing the shuck be sure to run somekind of a stress test for few days so you know that it doesn’t fail immediately.
I used the preclear plugin in Unraid for this.

Setting up Uptime Kuma on Kapsi.fi

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Small tutorial on how to run Uptime Kuma on Kapsi.fi shared hosting environment without Docker.

Prerequisities:

Kapsi account
Port opened to webapp servers. Request this from Kapsi admins.
ssh
(Optional) Own domain address