This post is over a year old because I was too lazy smh. A draft was sitting in the posts tab page for the longest time. With that in mind, some beginning parts of the post below will talk about my parents' place, while the UPDATED TM parts of my…
The desktop disaster was not the last of my struggles 😅
Lots of angry swearing and tech malding ahead.…
Last year I pledged for a batch of Zimaboards on Kickstarter. Very cool boards. I ordered 3 because I had big plans for them, 1 for use at my parents' place to improve general internet QoL, 2 for development and my own apartment's home networking. Expectation: Reality: Something something supply…
I bought some like new Audiotechnica ATH-M30 headphones for extremely cheap ($38) in 2014. The model was getting discontinued, and newer models were already very popular, so taking advantage of the price drop was a no brainer. The sound quality was immaculate, but long term use showed some glaring problems…
This post somewhat follows up on the tethering struggle. My mother also struggles to maintain connection on her cell phone in the upstairs bedroom. The router is directly beneath her bedroom, so there's probably too much plumbing and wiring in the way that interferes with the signal. I recently serendipitously…
I'm currently connecting my upstairs desktop to the internet via Android USB tethering. Just the other day I decided to install a few home media servers for convenience while staying with parents. I've tried Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Kodi, a bunch of them. Every single time I try to access the…
Some of you might have already heard that I've been getting really weird monitor issues intermittently. It used to only be once in a blue moon, mostly when I was playing waifus on Bluestacks. So of course, I blamed Bluestacks for the troubles. The monitor would suddenly blink out into…