Hackintosh Why and how I went Hackintosh I've been going through what you could call a transitional stage with my home setup this past half-year. From acquiring a few servers, to setting up my main home work machine as a
Homelab Proxmox VE 5.3 The new version of Proxmox was released a few days ago, and brings several very nice new features with it. For me the most interesting is that they've added PCI passthrough support in
Homelab Server Padding Due to part luck and part perseverance from a colleague I somewhat quickly ended up with several servers. My original plan was to purchase just the one, but these things have a way
DIY Update: Installing a Monitor Arm on my Tiny Desk. A few weeks ago I installed a dual monitor arm on my tiny standing desk, and today I wanted to post a quick follow-up to this. First; I've been thoroughly enjoying this setup.
Homelab HCiPC B203-1 HCL-SD525-6LA Router/PC Hardware Overview For my increasingly complicated interesting home setup I wanted to explore setting up a more robust router. One that I could use for both my home network —meaning the usual home-type devices; Apple
Homelab Video: Storage Server CPU And Memory Upgrades & New Network Cables When I got the Dell R510 it came with two Intel Xeon L5520s. I wanted to go even more lower powered (the plan is to have it running 24/7), so I got
Hackintosh Video: Native Bluetooth and WiFi on a Hackintosh Today I'm installing a Broadcom BCM94360CD PCIe card for native Bluetooth and WiFi support on the Hackintosh I built not too long ago for home work usage. The process is easy enough, and
Gaming Upgrading a PS4 Hard Drive Not too long ago I upgraded the hard drive of my PS4. This was just in time, too, with Red Dead Redemption 2 coming out not long after and weighing in at a
Office Installing a Monitor Arm on my Tiny Desk. I have a very small standing desk that I use as a sort of as a mobile home office, as I can roll it around the house to find the best spot for
DIY Installing a grounded wall socket For some reason that is completely unknown to me, only two or three wall sockets in my apartment are actually grounded — in the kitchen and laundry room. All the other ones actually have
Tech Video: Replacing the battery of a SNES game, or; Can I (Still) Solder? It's been forever since I last soldered something, so when I planned to replace the battery of my Donkey Kong 2 SF cart, I wasn't sure if I would be able to do
Coffee Video: Making Cold Brew Coffee I wanted to give making cold brew coffee a try, so recently I purchased a Hario "Mizudashi" coffee pot. I thought it would be nice to record my first experience making coffee with
Tech Intel Xeon E5640 vs X5570 After having somewhat recently acquired two servers, I have been spending some time both setting up a useable home network setup. Part of this was to also take a look at power consumption,
Development How to set up and use Postgres locally using Docker Here are my personal notes on how to set up Postgres locally using Docker. This is by no means the perfect or one-and-only method, but it works for my specific needs, and might
Music Video: The New Home This video was originally made and uploaded in October 2017, right after we moved into our new home. I wanted to make a short video celebrating the new home, and the fact that
Music Video: Speed Box S Unboxing, Review & Motor hum Reduction Test I had purchased the Speed Box S in an attempt to reduce the very noticeable hum that comes from Pro-Ject's record player motor. As an added bonus it would, as the product name
Music Video: Lala Land Limited Edition Blue Vinyl, or; The Joy Of Listening to That What You Can Touch. I love the movie Lala Land and when they announced a limited edition blue LP of its soundtrack, I had to get it. As a sort of thank you to the movie, as-well
Video Video: The Balcony Here I sand, stain and apply a coating to a garden set originally purchased from Ikea. We've since moved to a place that lacks a balcony, but we actually still use this table