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 […]
It’s not that often I need to create Samba shared directories on my Linux machines, but making public shared directories that don’t require a user login/password is less straightforward that it should be in my opinion The overall purpose of this post is to make my future interactions with Samba significantly less painful. General […]
I don’t often setup new installations of Arch Linux/Manjaro, but in comparison to Windows, macOS, Android, and other operating systems, it is very painful to add a new language input; therefore this will be a set of simple instructions to do it. Fcitx5 is the preferred input method framework I’ll be using. General […]
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 […]
I just noticed it has been slightly more than a month since the Bolt Creek Fire in the Skykomish area of Washington started and that the air quality was extremely terrible just from observing through the window of my home. During my walk today, the sky was very smoggy to the extent of blocking much […]
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 […]
Made a stop at this botanical garden located about fifteen minutes from downtown Bellevue. An interesting object that I saw was a mannequin comprised of paper swans located insides a Japanese styled building.
I did a trip to this Japanese garden with about one-hundred years of history today. It’s located along the southern part of Seattle. The park is located unassumingly in a residential area that is quite far from areas with high foot traffic relative to other parts of Seattle.
The brother of one of my old friends tasked me to liquidate 14 years worth of IT equipment for his company. The range of IT equipment ranged from network appliances, monitors, laptops, cables, adapters, etc. I used Craig’s List, OfferUp, eBay, and Amazon marketplace to offload the items. Some notable items that were given to […]
I went with my mom for a short trip to get some fresh air at the UW Arboretum. We haven’t been to the place in ages, so it was a pleasant refresh. In walking through the place, construction on the 520 Floating Bridge was viewable.
One of my friends gave me about seventeen years worth of designer goods such as mini-purses, crossover bags, clutch purses, pouch bags, necklaces, and wallets to offload, and I went through the OfferUp, Craig’s List, and eBay to sell them. Surprisingly, I did not sell any of the items locally through OfferUp or Craig’s List […]
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 […]
The family of my friend Patricia was moving and needed to offload about thirty-five years worth of items. Since liquidating stuff on eBay, Craig’s List, OfferUp, and Amazon is a hobby of mine, I couldn’t resist taking all of that stuff. The experience was very eye-opening to say the least, and I had to make […]
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, […]
