Compressed Thoughts

A Journey Through Some Rough Lenovo Firmware

How I diagnosed a bad NVMe drive on a laptop over several hours., Jan 18, 2025

I recently had the displeasure of working on a Lenovo Yoga C740 which had stopped booting into its operating system (Linux Mint). What should have taken 30 minutes, ended up taking me probably around 8 hours.

Blu-Ray - The Future?

A supposed legendary technological evolution of the DVD, the future of optical entertainment. So where are they?, Feb 14, 2020

CDs were a breakthrough, at least in terms of storage. When CDs came out they held more data than hard disk drives of the time, but things evolve. CDs evolved into DVDs, which held nearly 5 GB vs the ~700 MB of CDs. CDs and DVDs are manufactured in slightly different ways, and are read with slightly different tech, but Blu-Rays are rather interesting.