Hackintosh Turning on FileVault on your Hackintosh Enabling FileVault is a smart move, especially if your device is portable. It ensures that if your computer and/or hard drive ever gets in the wrong hands, your (work) files will, at
Hackintosh Keeping your Hackintosh up-to-date, my method One of the possible challenges with using a Hackintosh is having to deal with OS updates. Though this is much less of an issue if you have properly set up your Hackintosh (e.
Learn With Me Redistributing Memory — Learn With Me Ep.4 A short while ago I set out to more properly distribute and balance the RAM I have available between my servers. I originally had 24GB of unregistered RAM in the Dell R510, which
Learn With Me Configuring VLANs and spinning up pfSense — Learn With Me Ep.3 As it turns out, preparing to emigrate (back?), leaving the company I co-founded, and starting the search for my next work opportunity takes up quite a bit of time. So episode three ended
Tech GPD Pocket 2 Typing Test I've been meaning to do a typing test on the GPD Pocket 2, and today finally had a moment to sit down, set up the camera, and try. The results will likely not
Homelab D-Link DGS-1210-28 Smart Managed Switch Brief Hardware Overview For anyone in the market of a managed switch for home(lab) or small office use, the DGS-1210 is likely to pop up a s a possible consideration. While it is not the
Homelab Dell R510 2U Server Hardware Overview As you may have seen in some of my previous posts, I have a few servers at home. These serve several purposes, most of which are directly or indirectly related to me bettering
Quick Quicky: Monitoring your computer's temperatures in Ubuntu 18.10 After recently re-applying better thermal paste for the GPD Pocket 2, I wanted to also be able to keep an eye on system temperatures while running Ubuntu. Fortunately there is a pretty easy
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
Gaming GPD Pocket 2: Dolphin Emulator on Ubuntu & Win10 comparison (Mario Sunshine and Twilight Princess) I wanted to see how Dolphin's performance on the GPD Pocket 2 compares between it running on Ubuntu 18.10 and Windows 10. The results aren't as clear-cut as I originally had hoped
Tutorial Installing Ubuntu 18.10 on a GPD Pocket 2 In case you're not familiar, the GPD Pocket 2 is a tiny, 7" computer that quite literally fits in your pocket, yet packs a lot of power. With its unibody design you could
Tech Dream: Macbook Nano My attempts at getting macOS running on the ultra-portable GPD Pocket 2 have not yielded the results I’m looking for so far, which is very unfortunate. I’m keeping my fingers crossed
Photo Leaving Adobe Lightroom CC As part of my Great Data Reorganizing of 2018, I had followed my colleague and signed up for a personal Adobe Lightroom subscription. If you commit to a year-long subscription, the monthly cost
Review Review: Unitek USB3 memory card reader Recently I decided to get a new microSD card for the camera I use to make my videos, as up until now I had been using a very old 16GB Sandisk SD card.
Quick Quicky: Unzip multiple files with spaces in their filenames using command line. You might have run into a similar situation; You need to unzip several ZIP files, but running unzip *.zip command results in errors shown about files not being found. Joy.Fortunately there's way
Learn With Me Introduction, VLANs & pfSense — Learn With Me Ep.1 A little something else.I have been exploring and learning about networks, servers and everything related in my free time to broaden my skillset and because it's an interesting topic to me. For
Quick Quicky: How to get your full CPU info in macOS Because I keep forgetting how to do this myself, too, here's an easy command that reports back your CPU's info:sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_stringThis will return a string looking something like
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 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 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.
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
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
Tech Intel Xeon L5640 and L5630 vs X5570 and X5550 Performance and Power Consumption Comparison Update: I have added comparisons to the Xeon L5630 which, at 40 Watts TDP, is an even more power efficient option.After having somewhat recently acquired two servers, I have been spending some