{"id":614,"date":"2020-05-16T18:16:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T23:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2023-07-18T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T18:15:41","slug":"refurbishment-skill-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Refurbishment Skill Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently I have been to build my hardware testing skills using only a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxfoundation.org\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Linux<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\">GNU<\/a> live boot USB of popular distributions like <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Ubuntu<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxmint.com\/\" class=\"aioseop-link\">Linux Mint<\/a>. While I know there are specialized tools I could purchase or download, I&#8217;m trying to see how much can be done without having to buy anything or have a huge amount of technical knowledge. I&#8217;ve had some success doing the easy things like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S.M.A.R.T.\" class=\"aioseop-link\">SMART<\/a> tests, memory testing, checking temperatures, and battery capacity BUT there are 2 areas where I&#8217;m still building my skills &#8211; flashing the BIOS and GPU testing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I making things more difficult for myself by trying to use open-source tools primarily? Probably but I am learning a lot so for me it&#8217;s a win. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have been to build my hardware testing skills using only a Linux\/GNU live boot USB of popular distributions like Ubuntu or Linux Mint. While I know there are specialized tools I could purchase or download, I&#8217;m trying to see how much can be done without having to buy anything or have a huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}