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 it is 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"
Marvel Heroes – Linux Server Setup Guide
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"
Phones throughout my life, where is the tech going?
Over the last nearly 30 years, I’ve had a lot of different kinds of personal cell phones. Phones have gone through a lot of different trends since I started using them, and I wanted to give an overview of my experience. Nokia The first phone I ever owned, somewhere around… Continue Reading... "Phones throughout my life, where is the tech going?"
My Quest to Build a Living Room PC in 2025 for Gaming
What Led to This Quest Roughly 10 years ago, in 2015, I built a home theater pc so I could play PC games with my friends online. I also wanted something I could use to play my back catalog of PC games, as well as older console games from my… Continue Reading... "My Quest to Build a Living Room PC in 2025 for Gaming"
Riva Tuner Overlay Editor Documentation and Notes
Doing research, looking for any documentation to riva tuner server overlay and copying here. Youtube channels were also pretty helpful. A combination of the below and a youtube video. I’ve stored the files I used here on github. Pasting From Guru3d Forums Important for beginners: Macros%CPUFull% %GPUFull% CPU/GPU name as seen in… Continue Reading... "Riva Tuner Overlay Editor Documentation and Notes"
What is Game Emulation and Why Use It?
Nostalgia and growing up with video games Growing up playing video games creates such nostalgia for the systems played. Unfortunately, over time the consoles stop working, and life changes such as moves away from home may mean that you leave those older systems behind. What do you do if you… Continue Reading... "What is Game Emulation and Why Use It?"
What is the Metaverse?
Facebook renamed itself to Meta in October 2021. The following year Facebook doubled down on metaverse being the future of the company by investing $13.7 Billion on metaverse R&D in 2022 alone. Fall of 2022 Meta saw 11,000 positions cut. In March of 2023, the company announced the elimination of… Continue Reading... "What is the Metaverse?"
The Evolution of Wireless Security
First Impressions The first time I was exposed to wireless internet was with my friend Paul. He was moving into a new house and showed me a Linksys router with 802.11b. At the time I didn’t have access to broadband internet as my family was out on 10 acres and… Continue Reading... "The Evolution of Wireless Security"
High-Level Understanding of Web 3.0
History of web ‘versions’ There are many different ways to look at the internet/world wide web history. Everything about the internet is founded on the concept of information accessibility, and freedom of sharing information. This post will review a high-level history and steer away from as much techno-jargon as possible… Continue Reading... "High-Level Understanding of Web 3.0"
High-Level Understanding of NFTs
What are NFTs? At a high level, the way I think of NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens is that it’s an incredibly arcane way to describe something that you can’t touch but could potentially own. This isn’t a fully inclusive definition but it’s where my mind goes. Usually, NFTs cover a… Continue Reading... "High-Level Understanding of NFTs"