Recently I took the initiative to upgrade my steam deck hard drive from the 256gb it came with to the much larger Micron 2Tb 2400 that was reasonably priced at Amazon (not an affiliate link). There’s no shortage of videos on YouTube to help you out, but I often find written guides to be more passable. Daniel over at WhoIsThisJoker was kind enough to write a guide for the process using the pictures I provided…
Long have I searched for a solution to sync my podcasts at my desktop and phone without paying for a service. The simple answer most people would give is to use Spotify or Amazon Music. But I am stubborn. Here is my criteria: Sync Server: GPodder Sync on NextCloud Let’s start with the crux of this issue. Go on over to nextcloud and install Gpodder Sync as an app. Easy enough. With that out of…
If you find yourself playing the steam deck while docked on on something like a 4k television or 1080p computer monitor, you might be wondering why in-game settings seem to lock you to the native 1280×800 resolution. I wondered this too and stumbled across this helpful video the explained the process by Marcus Adams on Youtube. I’d like to outline the steps here though for those of you that just want the answer. To Increase…
Many people have heard of Plex over the years for hosting your own copies of movies you own or home videos, but Jellyfin is an up and coming player in the field of personal streaming services that has emerged in recent years. Jellyfin is an open-source fork of Emby as a response to the closing of some of the open source code used on the Emby project and thus Jellyfin was born. Availability Despite only…
Searxng For all the nerds out there that love self-hosting you may find a self-hosted search engine to be an appealing prospect. That’s where Searxng comes in handy. Searxng (which I assume is pernounced like searching) is an open source meta search engine that was forked from the popular Searx meta search engine. What makes it different than a traditional search engine is that instead of keeping your own search index and web crawlers, it…
The Year of the Linux Desktop It’s been about a year since the steam deck was released. At the time I was aware of it’s existence but my focus was elsewhere. For those that might now know I’m am absolute Linux fanatic. I started my journey on Ubuntu 8.04 and haven’t looked back. For years I lamented having to dual boot windows to play my favorite games or just choose to miss out. Years would…