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Introduction The Steam Deck has quickly established itself in the PC gaming world as the best handheld to game on. Placed at a very competitive price point (its competitors by AYA and GPD are twice as expensive), it has managed to convince its detractors by proving its compatibility with a large number of AAA games such as Elden Ring or Red Dead Redemption 2 and by quickly improving the experience…
If you are an Android smartphone user, chances are you are also using the Play Store to install new apps. Google’s official app store is pre-installed on the vast majority of Android smartphones, and it provides access to a huge library of apps and games. But whether it’s for privacy reasons or just to free yourself from a digital giant, it can be interesting to cut your ties from that…
Table of contents Introduction Design Performance Conclusion Introduction At first glance, the MeLE Quieter2 is a mini-PC with a lot of qualities: it is a fanless and very compact machine with good connectivity for about 200€. With its Celeron J4125 CPU and its 8GB of RAM, this little computer could be the ideal companion for a server, a spare PC or even a main machine. Source : mele.cn
Introduction On Wednesday March 10th 2021, an OVH datacenter located in Strasbourg, France experienced a devastating fire destroying part of its servers and making inaccessible more than 400 000 distinct domain names . This event reminds us in a dramatic way that the web is fragile and any content present on it can disappear at any time. This phenomenon where a link to a document or a web page…
GNU Stow is a tool from the GNU Project presenting itself as a symbolic link manager. As a reminder, a symbolic link is a shortcut to a file stored elsewhere on the disk. Thus, reading or writing a symbolic link will redirect to the original file. On the other hand, deleting the symbolic link does not delete the original file. Stow allows you to better manage the numerous configuration files…
I have already written an article about BOINC without going through its installation. The classic installation of BOINC is done by downloading the BOINC client , but it is also possible to use BOINC in a Docker container. This installation method is easier to script and automate, which makes it very interesting on a headless server for example. Docker installation First of all, let’s install…
Wireguard is a communication protocol that can be used to create a VPN network. It has better performance than its competitor OpenVPN, but OpenVPN still keeps a significant lead since almost all commercial VPNs use it. Wireguard still has a long way to go, but it has been integrated into the Linux kernel since version 5.6 which facilitates its adoption. Installing a Wireguard VPN server under…
Introduction Mozilla Firefox is a web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine, the only serious competitor to the Google Chrome engine which powers most web browsers (including Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave Browser or the latest Microsoft Edge). Unfortunately Firefox has been constantly losing marketshare to other browsers. According to…
Introduction SailfishOS is a mobile operating system based on Linux. It is today one of the few alternatives to Android and iOS on the smartphone market. This article is a feedback from a Sony Xperia X under SailfishOS that I used as my main smartphone during the year 2019. The Sony Xperia X was not chosen at random, since it is one of the officially supported smartphones by SailfishOS . It is now…
Here’s a review of all the tech hardware I currently own. Main Computer CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Watercooling AIO: Corsair H60 2019 Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX_ac RAM: 2x8 Go G.Skill RipJaws 5 3200MHz CL16 GPU: AMD Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ 8Gb Power Supply: Corsair HX 620W (bought in 2010) Case: Silverstone SG13 Storage: SSD Samsung 970 Evo NVMe 500 Go + 3 hard drives (2 Tb, 500…
The BOINC Project The BOINC Project (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a distributed-computing project created by the Berkeley University in 2002. It allows volunteers to help scientific research by running scientific computing jobs on their computers in the background. The volunteers only need to download the BOINC client and to create an account for one or several BOINC…
Here’s a list of my favorite podcasts. I listen to them with Pocketcast (Android and web app). Top 10 Les Pieds sur Terre (France Culture) Géopolitique (France Inter) Open Jazz (France Musique) The Daily (New York Times) La méthode scientifique (France Culture) + La conversation scientifique (France Culture) L’esprit public (France Culture) Affaires étrangères (France Culture) Hardware…
Prerequisites Emacs , with org-mode and use-package a working hugo instance ox-hugo ox-hugo is an emacs plugin allowing the export of blog posts from an org-mode file to hugo. ox-hugo Installation Add to you emacs configuration file (.emacs.d/init.el for example) the following use-package instruction : (use-package ox-hugo :ensure t :after ox) Once ox-hugo is installed, the exporting functions…
Hello, I’m a Software Engineer living near Paris, France. I’m currently working at Back Market . You can contact me by email at dbeley [ at ] protonmail [ dot ] com. Thanks for stopping by! Projects The complete list of my projects is available on my github profile. tuberank ( Source Code ): Community website to rate and discover YouTube videos. multi-translate ( Source Code ): A…