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 […]