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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 the street a

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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 any settings, and

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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 a substantial decrease

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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 a video about

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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

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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

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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.

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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 home work usage.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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