Several years ago I bought a cheap and power efficient little mini PC, to experiment with as a home server. Recently I found it again somewhere and decided to use it. Out of the box it comes installed with Android and Windows, you can boot into either of them. But because it only has about 32GB of disk space I'd rather install Linux.

Learn how to configure GRUB so it automatically boots into the operating system you selected last time, which is especially helpful on dual-boot systems.

I've owned a Beelink U55 mini-PC since 2020, and I use it to run my homelab services. It's a nice little machine, quiet, low-power, and generally reliable for light workloads. But over the years, I've run into strange, unexplained crashes whenever the system is under heavy load, especially when running any sort of machine learning or image processing.

The key component of this project is the Aqara Door & Window Sensor. These compact Zigbee‑enabled sensors detect when a magnet opens or closes an electrical circuit. Interestingly, you can bypass the magnet and manually trigger the sensor by opening and closing the circuit with a switch.

In my search for some cheap wifi lightbulbs which I can flash with Tasmota to remove all cloud related firmware I came across the collection of LSC Smart Connect devices for sale at Action. I purchased the most normal looking bulb with RGB colors and a E27 fitting

If you want to connect with Remote Desktop to your Ubuntu 18.04 Server, a good way to do so is by using XRDP. If you are like me and run a server with very little RAM you also want to use a Desktop Environment that uses as little memory as possible. LXDE is a very lightweight Desktop Environment, so I will be using that one.

If you want to connect with Remote Desktop to your Ubuntu 18.04 Server, a good way to do so is by using XRDP. If you are like me and run a server with very little RAM you also want to use a Desktop Environment that uses as little memory as possible. LXDE is a very lightweight Desktop Environment, so I will be using that one.

Soon we will be launching our beloved party shooter Rocket Riot to Steam and Windows 10. We'd be immensely flattered if you could give us a hand and write a social media post about Rocket Riot on Nouncy. That way you allow us to control when your post is published, and thus amplifying the message.

The other day I ran into an issue where a thread got stuck on accessing a singleton. It was quite curious because there was no locking with mutexes or critical sections going on, yet the thread stalled.

Lately I have been using Unity and today when I ran the editor on my laptop I noticed that most of the icons were very fuzzy or blurry.

Newer ARM processors have their own flavor of SIMD instructions called NEON. In my little Android application Arashi, NEON is used a lot to speed up the simulation of particles.

I am just writing down the steps I take to compile Unreal Tournament 4 from the GitHub source and mention any problems I encounter.

I wrote a tiny open source skeletal animation and software skinning library for C++.

In case you would like to use the latest version of Qt using OpenGL instead of ANGLE in combination with Visual Studio 2012 and target a 32-bit platform you will be disappointed to find out that there are no precompiled libraries available from the Qt-Project website...

There is something called the Widget Box in the Qt Designer. It contains a list of widgets separated by categories. Each category button can be clicked in order to expand and collapse the list below the button.

As I am writing this I am simply noting down the steps I take to get Google Play Game Services to work.