Quick Review: FENVI WiFi 6 MediaTek-powered USB Adapter

From time to time, AliExpress sends me emails that show off some really nice deals. One said deal was 30% off a FENVI-branded USB 3.0 WiFi 6 Adapter. I decided to check it out and order one unit. The unit arrived after a bit of an extended wait due to the Chinese Lunar New Year….

rEFInd: Dualboot stuff with Ease on Valve’s Steam Deck

Experimenting with dual booting various Operating Systems on devices like the Steam Deck can be a pain. However, I would like to point you at this GitHub Repository called “Steam rEFInd”. What the github repository contains is a installer that installs a open source bootloader to your Steam Deck’s boot partition. This allows one to…

Unity Editor 2021.3 LTS on Linux: Works, but…

I’ll keep this short, but while Unity Editor 2021.3 LTS works on Linux-based system, it has a flaw that hurt my eyeballs while using it. Granted, I haven’t spent a lot of time using Unity on Linux (apart from using the compiled Unity Players on Linux), here’s my experience so far… The Good For starters,…

The Linux Journey So Far…

If you’ve seen my twitter from time to time or been lurking in my Discord or Twitch streams you’ll know that I am a big enthusiast of using Linux KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) magic to run a Windows virtual machine on top of my distro of choice, Arch Linux. In doing so, this allows me…

Dialup Internet? In 2022? Coburn, are you nuts?

Telephone companies hate him! Find out how one Aussie makes his own ISP with some weird shit and magic! Thanks to a Cisco SPA112 being the real MVP in creating your own home-grown dial-up ISP, I have successfully managed to get a Pentium II with MMX machine online in 2022 using a 24Kbps connection via…