Playing Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy again
"Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy" celebrates its 20th anniversary this year! Reason enough to dust it off and play it yet again. This time I went to hunt for mods to make it more interesting this time aroun...
Tag: linux
How To: Fix duplicated characters (and other artifacts) in your shell
A few days ago I started noticing strange behaviour of my shell. When typing commands or working with pasted ones, especially with tab completion, duplicated characters started showing up at the begin...
How To: Choose a specific WiFi radio band on Linux
Sometimes I don't work from home but at my family's or a friend's place. Turns out the router at one of these places is terrible and can't reliably provide WiFi for my laptop sitting some 4 meters awa...
My New Server Setup
A while ago someone (not pointing fingers but it wasn't me) broke the Raspberry Pi my Jellyfin server was running on. I have no idea what exactly happened and why it doesn't work anymore but it was in...
How To: Run Freelancer on Linux
Here's another piece of gaming nostalgia: Freelancer. It's celebrating its 20th birthday this year which seems like a good opportunity to me to get it up and running again. Prerequisites Although this...
How To: Rip BluRay discs on Linux
Disclaimer: Ripping BluRays with Handbrake is discouraged by its developers. They recommend using MakeMKV instead which is more robust in this respect since it's built for the task. By now I've adopte...
How To: Find Which Package Provides a Given File
Don't you just hate it when you're in your terminal and want to run some commands, only to discover that you don't have the appropriate package installed (yet)? Maybe you recently reinstalled your mac...
How To: Set up NextcloudPi with Docker
I've been successfully running a Nextcloud instance for a while now and it's quite useful. When I did the setup the first time I installed the entire stack on bare metal by hand. Raspberry Pi with Ras...
How To: Disable Origin Overlay for Steam Games
The Origin launcher is a blight upon the galaxy. Period. It just sucks. Unfortunately the company making it and forcing it on people happens to be the publisher of some of my favorite game franchises,...
My Gaming on Linux
A few years back I made the full switch to Linux for all of my personal machines for a couple of reasons (which you can read about here). For the most part this was a painless transition which came wi...