Video - Dave Jansen

Video break: Trees, Wind, and Mountains

The air quality has been great the last few days, and with the temperatures creeping closer towards summer it's possible to have the windows open without freezing up, which is really nice. While working today I noticed it got quite windy, and looking out the window the trees were just

Gaming

Hitman 2 (2018) on the GPD Win Max (Manjaro)

I've been slowly putting the Win Max through its paces, mostly by sitting in my living room or in bed before sleeping playing through some games I never got a chance to play through. I have several of the older Hitman titles, and they run well as can be expected,

Gaming

Taking a first look at the Wii Classic Controller

I wanted to try out the Wii Classic Controller for a while now, and earlier this week I was finally able to do so. The Classic Controller is a controller that you plug directly into the Wiimote, so while it's a wired controller, it wirelessly connects to your Wii (or

Gaming

GPD Pocket 2 RPCS3: Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Final Mix Test

I wanted to test how well (or if at all) the GPD Pocket 2 runs RPCS3. I tried a few games and most of them did not work, either at all or at a very low framerate, which is to be expected. What I did not expect was how well

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 I have running 24/7. In another —since sold— spare server I had 32GB of registered memory,

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 up taking quite a bit longer to complete than I anticipated. Whoops. Sorry about that. But, fortunately,

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 surprise anyone, but it's always handy to be able to see not just what the somewhat arbitrary

Gaming

GPD Pocket 2: Dolphin Emulator on Ubuntu & Win10 Quick 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 they might be. Let's take a look. GPD Pocket 2: Dolphin Emulator on Ubuntu & Win10 comparison

Learn With Me

Fiddling with the network cables — Learn With Me Ep.2

A shorter, kind of half-an-episode in the process of complicating my home network for the sake of learning things. Today we’re taking a short look at and moving some cables around, so that I can properly set up the VLANs I want, and also set up pfSense for my

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 many of these things I start off having no clue where to begin or what to do.

Nature

Common Starling & Varied tit

I've been providing a bowl of food and water for local birds this past year, and initially only the common birds you see everywhere here (I believe they're called Great tit, or Parus major) but this past week a new bird couple has showed up that looks similar but at

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 two L5630s. While the L5520 has a TDP of 60 Watts, the L5630 is 40 Watts, so

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. The process is easy enough, and this particular card is natively supported by macOS, so it works

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 an adequate job. Naturally I decided to grab the camera and record the process, not to show

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 it. While I enjoyed the end-result, I must admit that I basically just "winged" it, so it's

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 implies, also be easier for me to put on a 45rpm record, as it saves me from

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 as to share the joy that is listening to music you can physically hold in your hands,

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 as our (very petite) kitchen dinner table, with a glass top we had made for it. This