Motivation Throughout my quest to improve my home network, the limitations of my ISP-issued modem/router were getting more and more obvious. In particular, as the number of devices in my network gr...
Refresher & motivation After a long and honestly unplanned break, I am back to writing again. The good news is that, I have not been sitting idle for the last year, and there are a few projects...
Introduction A few years ago, I decided to try hosting my own Nextcloud instance. The project was a very good introduction to self-hosting, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone wanting to ...
Motivation Figure 1: Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 9 Pro A year ago, I found a very good Black Friday deal on the Redmi Note 9 Pro from Xiaomi. The phone boasts some very interesting specifications, most ...
Motivation I am not a gamer by any mean. However, I do enjoy gaming once in a while, and always find it to be a fun activity when having friends over. On the same note however, I am an ardent Linu...
It took much longer than I ever thought possible to reach this point, but we are finally here! Through the four parts of this series (1, 2, 3, and 4), I have walked you through all what I had to le...
In this fourth installment of my computer build series, we will look at the last two components of my build. Namely, the graphics card (GPU) and power supply (PSU). Graphics card I have spent a n...
Introduction Virtualization is a great learning tool that provides a risk free environment to experiment with a multitude of topics. Among other things, it allows to experiment with different OSes...
So far in this series we have gone through the reasoning behind my choices for the CPU and motherboard, as well as the case and cooler. In today’s article, we will be focusing our attention on RAM,...
Motivation I recently bought a smart TV, and in order to make full use of, I would like to connect to the Internet. However, connecting the TV directly to my router, to gain Internet access, would ...