norn's blog

GPU Timesharing with Nix

Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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vllm tagging pipeline

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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spring (autumn...?) cleaning...

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

i tided this up a little bit...! it's been a while... read the rest →

Fixing the Volume on my Bluetooth Earbuds

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I recently got a pair of Tozo T6 earbuds. They're great and I love them but they play a sound whenever you pair, unpair, or connect them, and it's way too loud for my preference. I also wasn't able to fix it by e.g. setting the equalizer to subtract a few decibels across the board. I asked them via email about this and they responded promptly and said that there was nothing they could do, which is understandable - it's probably not a common request. But it was too loud for me to continue using them, so I decided to try to solve the problem myself. read the rest →

Android Studio Workaround: "Not Enough Memory to Run HAXM"

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Android Studio has a bug in its AVD manager (Android Virtual Device - basically a virtual machine managed by Android Studio) that causes it to incorrectly report that it doesn't have enough memory to start an AVD. The error code returned has a misleading name, in the code it is called "AccelerationErrorCode.NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY" but the error message produced by this references some Intel-only virtualization technology called "HAXM" which is not used by default on Linux and is not related to the source of the error. read the rest →