Throughout my adult life, I have always favoured the “retro” video games that I enjoyed during my childhood over newer releases. Nearing the end of my peak gaming interest (in my early adolescence), the original Sony PlayStation hit the markets. With it came multi-disc games where we had to switch discs at one or more …
Tag: Gentoo Linux
Apr 06 2023
Fixing Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 latency and ping spikes in Linux
Recently, I purchased a mini-PC with an embedded Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 wireless chipset and installed Gentoo Linux on it. The reason I purchased the mini-PC was to replace my ageing music server (running MPD), but I also wanted to use it for playing retro video games through my entertainment centre. Everything went well with …
Mar 26 2021
LetsEncrypt SSL certificates for vhosts within the mail stack – via Postfix (SMTP) and Dovecot (IMAP)
For a long time, I didn’t care about using self-signed SSL certificates for the mail stack because 1) they still secured the connection to the server, and 2) those certificates weren’t seen or utilised by anyone other than me. However, for my datacentre infrastructure which houses clients’ websites and email, using self-signed or generic certificates …