Egee's Hobbies

Author: Hobby Egee

  • BMW G 310 GS Battery Upgrade! | LiFePO4 Powersports Battery

    BMW G 310 GS Battery Upgrade! | LiFePO4 Powersports Battery

    Changing my BMW G 310’s battery and taking a ride around

    I found a drop-in LiFePO4 replacement battery for my G 310 GS for a good price. Sometimes aftermarket batteries have fitment or reliability issues but this one has been great.

    LiFePO4 (Lithium Iron Phosphate) batteries are superior for powersports because they last longer and are much more resistant to vibrations and heat. This also make them safer than LiPo (Lithium Polymer) batteries.

    In the video, I swap out my battery for this Grecell LiFePO4 and take it for a spin. It help up nicely, although the button always seems to say 90% charge.

    The battery holds steady at 90% charge.

    I purchased the battery from Amazon for $80 and it is a direct replacement and upgrade from the stock battery. It offers significantly better reliability and shouldn’t go dead during the off-season!

    Note: If you are shopping for a Lithium-based replacement for the stock battery, ensure it has a BMS (Battery Management System) like this one does!

  • AcreetionOS Distro Delve Live Stream!

    AcreetionOS Distro Delve Live Stream!

    Greetings hobbyists! I’m going to be taking a look at a little Arch-based Linux distribution called AcreetionOS. Sounds a bit like my very own Hobby Linux. Should be fun to poke at, hope to see you there!

  • Egee Shows You His Guitars & Style

    Egee Shows You His Guitars & Style

    Greetings Hobbyists! The long awaited “Egee’s guitar video” is finally here.

    I’ve wanted to make some guitar videos for a while. There are a few of budding guitarists among the Flufferschnoots & Hobbyists. A self-taught guitarist myself, I’d love to show you around the guitar!

    I recorded and produced this on Arch Linux. There were a couple of audio glitches and I’m inclined to think they are related to Pipewire. They are very chaotic and unlike the glitches that occurred with my old Behringer interface, I can’t remove these ones.

    The guitars I show you in this video are:

    I mentioned my guitar microphone is an SM57 but I totally spaced my amplifier. It’s a little Marshall MG15G combo.

    If you’d like to support me, subscribe and stay tuned for the next guitar video! I’m eyeballing a new fuzz pedal that might be fun to make a video on next month.. Affiliate links help out too!

  • Upgrading to the latest Gnome Desktop on Arch Linux

    Upgrading to the latest Gnome Desktop on Arch Linux

    Watch me upgrade my Arch workstation with the latest Gnome desktop! I started the saga on KDE but things got bumpy so I switched to Gnome. And already there’s an update!?

    In the last Linux video, I switched from Xfce to Kde. And now, I’m back in GTK-land on Gnome. What gives? It’s mostly me being lazy. I need to re-setup my xdg-portals for Kde and fix kwallet. It’s the simple stuff I can’t be bothered with.

    I recorded this last weekend, so I’m half a week into Gnome 48. I’ve seen the stacking notifications but I still haven’t seen the battery capacity/health feature.

    Overall, it’s just fine. I’m still using it, so that’s a measure of success.

  • The ActivityPub and friends plugin got a bunch of updates. Let’s see how it looks when I toot from Tusky!

  • Project Zomboid Server Relaunch Announcement

    Project Zomboid Server Relaunch Announcement

    Server Relaunch!

    I’m excited to announce the refreshed Project Zomboid server is wiped & ready for relaunch. Now with updated mods and better server performance & stability!

    Server Details:

    The Project Zomboid server is a casual furry-friendly PvPvE with lots of balance, cosmetic, and quality-of-life mods. Feel free to roleplay!

    Rules are simple: Be decent, don’t be a meanie or troll, and have fun!

    Be sure to join the Discord server! There’s an official text channel in the for Project Zomboid announcements, discussions, and reports (bugs or players).

    How to Join:

    Before joining, you should subscribe to the mod collection on Steam and make sure the mods are downloaded first.

    Join by connecting to: zomboid.egee.io in the multiplayer menu. No whitelist or password.

    Everyone in the community has been great. Let’s keep it that way!

    Happy Surviving!

  • Space Egee Searches For Starship Fuel At Erchius Mining Facility

    Space Egee Searches For Starship Fuel At Erchius Mining Facility

    Space Egee is back!

    Greeting Space Egee compatriots! I’ve been getting back into Starbound lately. I knew what horrors this dungeon had in store so I thought I would bring you along!

    (Re)Enter: Space Egee!

    Space Egee is an character from the 24th century. He’s a bit of a space pirate though he’s not a bad guy. In Starbound, he’s just a silly goober that gets intro trouble and dies a lot.

    My Asmr fans might be familiar with Space Egee from the role-play I did with him! The art of him is by the ever lovely MerlinMakes and the video is up on my asmr website.

    What Are The Mods?

    Starbound shant be played without mods. I have a mod collection you should use but it has too many mods to list here. It’s has several revamps and near total-conversions such as Arcana, Betabound, and my favorite, Frackin Universe!

    Subscribe to the modpack here.

    What’s Next For Space Egee?

    I often use my favorite video games as inspiration for content. Sometimes it’s gaming series’ but lately it’s been roleplays! Space Egee is such a cool character and he actually has a good bit of lore written about him. Yet, I only have a single image of him!

    Space Egee will reappear soon. Either in another gaming video or a roleplay. But he’s comin’ to gettcha.

  • I’m Switching from Xfce to KDE on Arch Linux

    I’m Switching from Xfce to KDE on Arch Linux

    Hey Hobbyists! I’ve been running vanilla Arch Linux since last year but I’ve cycled through a number of GTK desktops. After a buggy experience with Xfce, I decided to switch back to Qt land.

    My days of reinstalling and distro-hopping are over. Just regular ole Arch Linux is so good, I’ve all but dropped my aspirations to develop Hobby Linux. I’ll talk about that another time…

    Xfce 4.20 was very buggy for me

    I don’t know what exactly the issue was but the desktop in Xfce 4.20 simply stopped working. It happened after plugging my TV in via HDMI. Another annoyance is having to enable “presentation mode” to disable Xfce’s screen saving features while watching a movie. On every other desktop, VLC being full-screened is enough.

    Switching to KDE Plasma was truly the right move.

    Update to 6.3 was flawless

  • Yay I think I finally updated my PFP here. That’s something I couldn’t doo from WordPress.. maybe a bug with the Friends plugin?

  • Posts look silly on the website

    I have some polishing yet to do on the website because fedi posts look a bit silly on the website.

    I mean.. maybe not, though? It might grow on me haha