Home Winter emergency center for our succulents In our previous house we had a veranda area (think "inside but kind of outside") area that was perfect for plants, as it had direct sunlight on it all day
DIY Somewhat Restoring a Vintage Traditional Korean Closet For as long as I can remember I have naturally looked out for people throwing out what they consider trash. So when I saw some furniture on the side of
DIY Upgraded Soldering Setup I've had a very basic soldering iron for years, and it served its purpose well enough. It was one of those "plug in and they go" type irons that lacked
Tech Applying new thermal paste on the GPD Pocket 2 for better thermals The GPD Pocket 2 (P2) has decent thermal paste applied coming out of the factory, but thanks to modders and tinkerers it became rather evident that you could get quite
DIY Cleaning SNES and Super Famicom carts When collecting older games —or simply revisiting your childhood games— it's usually a good idea to clean the games and, ideally, replace their batteries. A few months ago I made
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
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
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
Hackintosh Video: Native Bluetooth and WiFi on a Hackintosh Today I'm installing a WTXUP TX-AC94360 PCIe card, which has a Broadcom BCM94360CD chip, for native Bluetooth and WiFi support on the Hackintosh I built not too long ago for
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
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
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
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
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
