DIY cloud gaming: NVIDIA and Moonlight
Comparing the experience that AMD and NVIDIA can provide in a DIY cloud gaming setup.
DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD
A build log of how I set up my own ‘cloud gaming’ setup, including all the issues I faced and attempts to fix those.
Testing GPU passthrough on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU
A quick overview of my experience with setting it up on a small PC box and things to consider when attempting this yourself.
Turning leftover PC parts into a decent gaming PC
Putting the ‘reuse’ in ‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’.
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: first impressions on Fedora 34
Or ‘How to downgrade your CPU at great expense!'
How to mess up a simple ThinkPad X230 BIOS flash and how to recover from it
At least it won’t end up in a landfill!
Tech tip #1: eliminate HDD humming noise
Silence your hard drives with this one weird trick! System administrators hate him!
Whacky setups #1: seedbox on a wall
This is what happens when someone takes the meaning of ‘brute force’ too literally.
How to start your self-hosting adventure: a high-level overview
Getting started is probably the hardest step.
My server setups throughout the years
From repurposed old PC-s to the elusive minimum viable server.
Database optimization adventures on low-end hardware
Who would have thought that performing basic database optimizations could be fun?
How to fix ZFS pool not importing at boot
You have probably tried Stack Exchange and reddit at this point, so what do you have to lose?
Quest towards energy efficiency part 1: the water heater
Alternative title: ‘Obsessing over things that nobody else cares about’
How to make digital copies of your old video tapes
Or ‘Wow, I did not know that VLC could do that!’
What running out of SATA ports looks like
How I slapped two hard drives on a long PCIe x1 card.
Stupid project ideas #1: the War Machine
Maybe not stupid, but definitely stupid expensive.