Life Life and Loss / Watch Me Play When after years I brought back my blog I wanted to do so to be able to share "technical stuff" that you might find useful. From little snippets, howtos, scripts
Gaming Hitman 2 (2018) on the GPD Win Max (Manjaro) I've been slowly putting the Win Max through its paces, mostly by sitting in my living room or in bed before sleeping playing through some games I never got a
Linux Installing Manjaro on the GPD Win Max (GNOME) A detailed guide on how to install and set up Manjaro on your GPD Win Max.
Linux Using a Logitech StreamCam on Linux Last week I finally purchased a webcam for online meetings, something I had been holding off on for quite some time. I was using a 12" MacBook for these up
GPD The GPD Win Max I have always had a soft spot for (near-)pocketable devices that –successfully or otherwise– punch above their weight. From the pre-smartphone Pocket PCs days, to the short-lived UPCs and
Exploring Star Citizen #1: New Babbage, MIC-L1 Shadow Frontier, Lorville (Ubuntu) Star Citizen is one of those games whose ideas just captures your imagination. The game is still under development, and it is being done in an open fashion, meaning you
Linux Quick: How to fix screen tearing in Ubuntu with AMD GPUs and X11 Every now and then you run into a little oddity that reminds you you're running Linux. Something that you really shouldn't even have to think about, but somehow lacks any
Learn With Me Converting a WordPress site into a static website Recently I had to convert a website powered by WordPress into a static site, as I wanted to host it in an archived state without having to maintain it on
Hackintosh Install macOS Big Sur 10.0.1 public release in a VM (QEMU) This is a small addendum to my main article on how to install macOS in a VM, which I'll keep as-is as that's effectively the normal way. But, if you'd
Linux Increase thumbnail cache in Ubuntu You might have noticed that with the thumbnail view enabled in Ubuntu (or, the Nautilus file browser) that thumbnails seem to have to be re-generated quite frequently. This is due
Development Audit & Fix your NPM packages when using Yarn Yarn is a nice alternative to NPM, with pretty much feature parity and, depending on the version, some speed benefits too, though these days perhaps slightly less so as compared
Hackintosh Install macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 RC2 in a VM (QEMU) A new macOS release is nearing release, and it's a big one. So big that this time it's really, completely and definitely not OS X any longer. With the death
Linux Install a Linux kernel of choice under Ubuntu. Checking this one off of the "did not expect I'd ever have to figure this one out" list. Here's a quick guide on how to install a Linux kernel version
Gaming Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Unboxing (PS2) It's a bit of a quiet season for my blog. I've been mostly busy with work and personal life things, and as I mostly keep this blog to technical subjects
Quick Quick: Give full filesystem access to Flatpak-installed applications When installing applications using Flatpak you'll sooner or later run into a situation where the default filesystem access permissions the application has been given can get in the way. Sometimes
Gaming Grand Theft Auto 3 I have recently gotten my hands on a PS2 again (a few actually, but a story for another day), and have been rediscovering it. It’s been so much fun.
Development Setting up MonoDevelop on Ubuntu for SMAPI Development As with all things Linux, you occasionally run into a quirk or issue that is either caused by the project not primarily being developed or maintained for Linux, or more
Linux Enable Korean input on Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 Here's of those things that are on the surface straight-forward but in practice require a few steps that might not be easy to remember for future (re-)installs. Here are
Quick My Recommended Firefox Settings A bit of a minor post today. I have been meaning to write down my preferred settings for Firefox as its defaults leave a lot to be desired. This is
Learn With Me Ubuntu: Day 1* Continuing my foray into trying to switch to using Linux full-time, it is time to give Ubuntu a new and proper try. Continued from the Manjaro series, the last post
Learn With Me Manjaro: Day 3 Spoiler: This is the final part of my Manjaro series. Continued from the second post, found here.So far I have not been describing the many issues I've been having
Learn With Me Manjaro: Day 2 Well this took a while. Work happened, then Manjaro itself got in the way too, so this project had to go on the back burner for a bit. I had
Learn With Me Manjaro: Day 1 I've been meaning to try Linux as my primary desktop OS again, to see if it has come to the point I am able to actually do this. Previous attempts
Quick Quick: How to dump & restore a MariaDB/MySQL database from a docker container In the same vein as my previous post on dumping and restoring your PostgreSQL database, here are mostly copy/paste-able commands for when you're using a MariaDB or MySQL database.
Docker Multi-step Docker Build Container Template for Node.js Applications This is a simple multi-step Node.js application docker build template that you can use to create self-contained, relatively small-sized and easily deployable images of your application. You can read
