Homelab Recommended settings for Windows 10 and 2019 Server on Proxmox Installing most operating systems in a virtual machine is pretty straight-forward these days, but for Windows specifically there are a few recommended settings and steps to get the best out
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
Quick Quick: 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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
Quick Quick: 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.
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
Quick Quick: 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_string This will return a
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 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
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)
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
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
