A personal blog about my personal projectshttps://blog.operas.pt/https://blog.operas.pt/posts/continente/continente/https://blog.operas.pt/posts/continente/continente/In April 2025, I found a way to farm unlimited reward points from Continente's mobile game campaign. I reported it responsibly, waited over 90 days, and heard almost nothing back. Here's the story.Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.operas.pt/posts/disks/disks/https://blog.operas.pt/posts/disks/disks/I ran out of drive bays on my home server, so I bought an HBA, an external PSU, and a handful of cables to bolt eight more disks onto it anyway. Here's how, and why.Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.operas.pt/posts/gpon/gpon/https://blog.operas.pt/posts/gpon/gpon/Before replacing my ISP's router, I had to get a GPON stick working in the first place. This is the story of how I bricked one, then very nearly bricked a second, and eventually recovered it over a soldered serial connection.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.operas.pt/posts/ilo4/ilo4/https://blog.operas.pt/posts/ilo4/ilo4/My HP DL560 G8's fans were screaming every time I added anything HP didn't sell me. So I patched the iLO4 firmware, found the sensor causing it, and wrote a script to tame it on every boot.Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.operas.pt/posts/nicupgrade/nicupgrade/https://blog.operas.pt/posts/nicupgrade/nicupgrade/A follow-up to replacing my ISP router: how I went from a forced 1Gbps link to getting HSGMII 2.5Gbps working on a Broadcom BCM57810S, after fighting DOS, iLO, and UEFI along the way.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.operas.pt/posts/router/router/https://blog.operas.pt/posts/router/router/How I ditched my ISP's router entirely, using a rooted Huawei MA5671A GPON stick and OPNsense to get my own hardware directly on the fiber line.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT