Lately, I’ve been shopping for a new motherboard platform to build a new daily driver desktop PC, specifically AMD X870E chipset-based. To my shock and dismay, most motherboards with that chipset only had two or three PCIe slots since many of the other PCIe lanes have been allocated for M.2 NVMe slots instead; it seems […]
I recently learned that Intel’s latest generation desktop CPUs (Codename Arrow Lake) will be all fabricated with TSMC instead of its own fabs. It’s quite disappointing that Intel could not fabricate the most advanced chips in volume for this generation of desktop chips despite being the largest recipient of subsidies from the Chip’s and Science […]
Below are some simple commands that work for ImageMagick 7 and later. I haven’t tested them to work on the older ImageMagick 6 which surprisingly is still being supported and the default installed version for many Linux distros. Batch Compressing Images Batch Convert Optimizing PNG Images
Windows Chocolatey As of this writing, Chocolatey doesn’t have a build-in cache cleaner so the best way is to install the unofficial Choco Cleaner which creates a Windows Scheduled Task to run Choco-Cleaner.ps1 every Sunday at 11:00 PM. macOS Homebrew Linux Flatpak Linux Snap Ubuntu APT Arch/Manjaro Pacman
Just a few days ago, Huawei revealed its Mate XT smartphone with stunning specs in regards to its custom SOC, camera, and tri-fold display. The famous veteran Hong Kong actor, Andy Lau even made a promotional video for it. This device is likely going to be a China-only release due to sanctions and the massive […]
In order to reflash a Sony Xperia phone (one that has its bootloader unlocked) to stock, one first has to download and install Sony’s in-house flash tool called Emma; as of this writing it’s only available for Windows, not Mac or any Linux Distro. The conventional app, Xperia Companion won’t work because it’ll complain that […]
I was a bit surprised despite HDR displays having been released to the consumer market since 2017 that taking screenshots that correctly captured the HDR tone mapping was very limited in terms of software availability; JPEG XR (JXR) is the most readily available HDR format in Windows via Xbox Game Bar and NVIDIA App for […]
GNOME is included as the default or as a installable desktop environment for most of the popular Linux distros out there such as Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Arch, Manjaro, and more, but I find it lacks expected basic functionality and polish for users accustomed to Windows and macOS. One can argue that GNOME is trying […]
Lately, I’ve been playing with the AI art/image generator, Stable Diffusion (webUI version) along with models/checkpoints from Huggingface and Civitai; to my astonishment, this stuff was free/open source and relatively easy to run with cheap consumer video cards since I’m primarily using an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 and an AMD Radeon RX 6600XT. However, documentation […]
Since I am somewhat of a diehard fan of the Final Fantasy series, especially games related to 7, I wanted to test how well Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion worked out-of-the-box on Arch Linux with a non-LTS kernel installed and possibly lots of unstable packages; to my amusement, I didn’t encounter any speed bumps […]
UPDATED 2023/03/31 My list of packages to install for Arch Linux after freshly installing the OS since it’s extremely bare . General base-devel git filelight tree reflector vim filezilla wine wine-mono obs-studio steam htop python python-pip bluez vlc handbrake veracrypt noto-fonts-cjk (East Asian Fonts) gparted xampp remmina yay (AUR) visual-studio-code-bin (AUR) ttf-ms-fonts (AUR) […]
So I recently bought Halo Infinite on Steam through a Black Friday Sale and for the heck of it, decided to try to run the game on few different Linux Distros with a PS5 Dualsense controller. I tested this on Kubuntu, Manjaro, and Linux Mint and was extremely surprised that the game ran out-of-the-box; the […]
After a few months from hearing about repurposing Nvidia Tesla Datacenter/AI computation cards for PC gaming, I finally decided to buy an Nvidia Tesla M40. Technically the item is e-waste, but still is very useful for my everyday use-cases. The experience wasn’t without some bumps along the way, but was still relatively easy in setting […]
I had quite a few Windows 7 installation discs that I was about to throw away, but it then hit me that there would be some buyers and/or collectors who were into this stuff on eBay. It surprised me that within three days, I sold all five of my Windows 7 discs which were four […]
As one can imagine during this Covid-19 pandemic, a significantly larger amount of people are staying at home and not venturing out which has directly led to a huge spike in demand for electronic gaming. In addition, huge demand for more laptops, desktop computers, and other electronic devices for remote work has drove a silicon/semi-conductor […]
CPU Coolers/ Fans Corsair Scythe Cooler Master Deepcool Thermaltake PSUs FSP Super Flower Seasonic EVGA Corsair Cooler Master Cases Corsair NZXT Deepcool Cooler Master Thermaltake Inwin RAM Corsair G. Skill Patriot Crucial/Ballistix Kingston/HyperX SSDs/HDDs Samsung SK Hynix Western Digital/Sandisk Micron/Crucial Seagate Motherboards Asus Asrock MSI Gigabyte Graphics Cards EVGA […]
This was a small project to remedy some of my boredom due to the Covid-19 lockdown/shelter-in-place order in Washington which started on March 23, 2020. Compared to my previous computer builds, I took the aesthetic details up a notch with some magnetic blue LED strips. I had a Samsung SSD, MSI video card, and an […]
This PC build took me about one month to accumulate all the parts for the cheap, mainly due to the wait on a decent new basic video card to go on sale. Many used video cards seem to be very bad value at the time of searching through the used marketplaces of eBay, Craig’s List, […]
The Fry’s Electronics of Renton looked very dismal to say the very least. From my take on it, it seems like the business as a whole is about to go out of business. From walking through most of the store interior, it seemed like that they had little to no new merchandise and this was […]
Today, I went to pick a pallet of twenty-four computers that I won an online auction for the City of Everett. The batch of computers was comprised of Dell Optiplexes and Precisions manufactured from 2010-2013. My Mitsubishi Outlander Sport was able to fit all the units snugly to the point that I had to place […]