The web/email server that I rolled myself almost 10 years ago and runs on a Digital Ocean droplet is seriously outdated. It originally started as an Ubuntu 12.04 x32 system and migrated several times. However, because it is a 32-bit x86 architecture, there doesn’t appear to be a clear migration Read more
Two years later, I swapped the two Nvidia GTX 1080 FE cards in SLI for a single Gigabyte RTX 3070 Aorus Master 8G. A 19.3% improvement in average framerate. (35.3% vs a single GTX 1080)
Fun fact: I’ve been growing chocolate ghost pepper plants in my office for the past year. Although, due to the oversight of growing these in an office building, I’ve produced plenty of flowers but no peppers because there’s nothing flying around to pollinate them. But, that’s a problem for another Read more
Muzei is a pretty awesome live wallpaper app for Android created by Google developers Roman Nurik and Ian Lake. It has an API that allows it to be extended and use custom sources that change throughout the day. I’ve been using it (somewhat ironically) to change my Android wallpaper to Read more
This app provides an Android Quick Settings tile which launches an OpenVPN Connect intent to connect/disconnect a specific VPN profile. One day I’ll release this to Google Play. Or, even write the actual README file for the GitHub repo. But, in the meantime, here it is. Google Play GitHub (source Read more
When running @ 1440p with Ultra graphics settings, on average enabling SLI results in an additional 19 frames-per-second (an increase of 24.7%). Worth it? Even with a 144 Hz G-Sync monitor, probably not. Here’s the fancy output from the game’s built-in benchmark with SLI enabled.
I guess I have a blog now. This is a place mostly for me to document things I’ve done or think are otherwise interesting. Actually, I’m just copying my friend Tim. He documents his computer builds on his blog.
