ThinkPad as a server: the follow-up
The ThinkPad as a server is back, this time with a couple of adjustments.
Anything’s a portable speaker if you’re brave enough
All about that time I converted a JBL soundbar into a portable speaker
Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430
I got curious about an ExpressCard to NVMe M.2 NGFF adapter I saw on Reddit, so I got one to try out myself, ending up with a total of 4 SSD-s on my ThinkPad T430. Yes, four.
The minimum viable fan control script
Some assembly required. No, not that one.
Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC
Experimenting with my fan control scripts ended up with an interesting discovery.
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?
I took a spare ThinkPad T430 and put all my home server workloads on it. Here’s how it went.
Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU
A quick and dirty experiment: can the integrated graphics on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU run Beat Saber?
My self-hosting setup has an UPS now, here’s my experience with it
UPS, I did it again 🎵
Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012
How trying out new laptops and messing with my personal computing setup motivated me to go back to a laptop that some would call ancient.
VR, VFIO and how latency ruined everything
Alternative title: “Honey, I completely changed my server setup again!”
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.
I’ve reached the self-hosting endgame
If all you have is a powerful workstation…
Whacky setups: seedbox on a wall
This is what happens when someone takes the meaning of ‘brute force’ too literally.
Database optimization adventures on low-end hardware
Who would have thought that performing basic database optimizations could be fun?
Quest towards energy efficiency part 1: the water heater
Alternative title: ‘Obsessing over things that nobody else cares about’
Disk is OK
It’s all good, man.
How I fixed one hardware issue with another one
Two issues make a solution after all.
The little Wi-Fi AP that could
Depends on your definition of could.