A low-level vulnerability was reportedly discovered in the Snapdragon 8E Gen5 platform. As long as the security patch level is earlier than February 2026, the Xiaomi 17 lineup and K90PM can reportedly unlock the bootloader directly. I placed an order right away using the government subsidy. The last time I rooted a phone was nearly ten years ago, so I still felt a bit lost this time. I am writing this post as a record and to share the process.
The hacked Synology build that originally came with my Snail NAS had been stable for years, but I barely used the Synology-specific features. Since I had recently been doing remote development on a tiny 4 GB overseas server, I decided to upgrade the NAS at home to a more general Debian 13 setup. With Docker and CasaOS, that is already enough for what I need.
A high-level look at ClickHouse storage internals, along with a closer analysis of the structure of the primary.idx and .mrk index files.
If you sign in with a Microsoft account during a fresh Windows install, Windows often uses the first five characters of your email address as the username. That can be annoying, so this post records one way to rename it.
A quick introduction to core Docker concepts such as repositories, images, and containers, plus a simple example of running Redis with Docker.