Krishnakanth Alagiri

Blog by Krishna Alagiri.

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Can this makeshift vertical case keep the Pi cool?

The Raspberry Pi 4 offers an excellent upgrade to the preceding Pi 3B+, but keeping the new model from overheating can be a challenge. Users have tried many techniques to tackle this issue, from …

Oct 10, 2021 2 min read

GNOME vs KDE Plasma

Both default setups of KDE and GNOME are simply legible. Plasma looks like what you’d expect if you’re coming from Windows, with its bottom panel, menu, and task manager, and the defaults …

Sep 29, 2020 4 min read

Why I switched to Pop_OS?

As of 2020, Windows is still the dominant desktop OS comprising nearly 90% of it’s demographic and I was in it for over 14 years. It was initially fast but as time progressed, the Windows …

Sep 18, 2020 7 min read

Understanding our future with 5G

As the long-term evolution (LTE) system embracing 4G is reaching maturity, it is reasonable for humanity to ponder “what’s next?” We all know that 5G is a paradigm shift from 4G with very high carrier …

Jul 5, 2020 6 min read

Scaling with Nginx; Cost-Performance analysis

When you realize your system is getting slow and is unable to handle the current number of requests even with optimizations, you need to scale the system sooner than you can optimize further. Building …

Jun 26, 2020 6 min read

Docker Apps and Images for everyone

Wait, What is Docker? Have you ever worried about software running in your machine but not in other systems? Docker is the solution. Docker sandboxes applications running within as containers so that …

Jun 14, 2020 10 min read

Raspberry Pi – Awesome custom MOTD

Even though the Raspberry Pi comes with an HDMI port, most projects are headless (runs without a display), which suggests you’re mostly using SSH to access the system. I’m bored of seeing …

Jun 7, 2020 3 min read