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 p...

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 ...

Motivation Most home network setups rely on a very basic configuration in which all devices are connected to the same Local Area Network (LAN) managed by a single device (the ISP-provided router)....

In the first installment of this series, we walked through the different aspects which influenced my choice of both a CPU and a motherboard for my new computer. Our walk-through ended with me settl...