Many services I’ve noticed offer the convenience of accessing the service anywhere, sometimes for a fee (i.e., Control4 home automation, Home Assistant). While I do want to access my data or services from anywhere, I don’t necessarily want to pay a subscription fee for each service forever. I’d much rather… Continue Reading... "WireGuard VPNs and my Testing over the last year or so"
Here’s what I want to know more about and upcoming games I’m really looking forward to. Most of these were covered in the Future Games Show, Sony’s State of Play, the Summer Games Fest presentation, and the Xbox presentation. Games I want to know more about: Upcoming Games I’m excited… Continue Reading... "2026 Summer Games Presentations"
I’ve been using LaunchBox’s BigBox for my HTPC for years at this point to replicate a console-like experience as close as reasonably possible. When Microsoft announced they wanted to make that process easier due to their Xbox strategy shifts, I welcomed the changes. I wanted to document (both for myself… Continue Reading... "Windows New Xbox Mode on My HTPC"
Wonder man 2026 just released yesterday as of this writing and I finished it today. I have some conflicted feelings about it but am overall positive on it. Let’s start with the… Strengths Criticisms Overall I really enjoyed the series. Mateen and Kingsley were a joy to watch. The superhero… Continue Reading... "Wonder Man 2026 Thoughts"
Installing linux on an old work laptop my wife graciously donated for testing. It’s a thinkpad x1 carbon 4k uhd model. I was curious how KDE and Gnome were looking. How easy they are to install, how painful it is to use things I’ve been used to in Windows and… Continue Reading... "2026 Experience Installing Linux on a 2020 Laptop"
It’s that time of year, upon writing my list of the best games I played in 2025, time to look ahead to 2026! I’ve broken things out into two categories, games I’m excited for and will very likely pick up upon their release and games I’m interested in but am… Continue Reading... "2026 Upcoming Games I’m looking forward to"
2025 is the year I went back to school to study computer science (I’ve completed 3 credit-based courses and 1 lab as of this writing – my last Final was yesterday for the fall term). I had less time to play games, but that didn’t really stop me! I played… Continue Reading... "Best Games I Played in 2025"
These instructions should be viable for a new Ubuntu server (as of writing, I used 24.04). Install apache2 and unzip and .net 8.0 runtime and conspy (conspy for tty for service created later) and sqlite3 sudo apt install apache2 unzip dotnet-runtime-8.0 conspy sqlite3 Download the latest build, unzip to /opt… Continue Reading... "Marvel Heroes – Linux Server Setup Guide"
I’ve decided to revisit the top fighting games from my past and explore what the latest entries have to offer. The earliest fighting game I recall playing was Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2 when I was in elementary school. I have so many great memories playing those games with… Continue Reading... "Revisiting Fighting Games From My Past"
Here’s my top 10 games I’m most excited about after all the summer games fest showcases from June 4th to June 9th this year. Sadly no CRPGs on display, but a lot of other great looking potential bangers. My Top 10 of All Shows Want to know more about Continue Reading... "My Top 10 Across All Summer Game Fest Showcases"