Egee’s Hobbies

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  • Egee Shows You His Guitars & Style

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    Hobby Egee

    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!

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  • Upgrading to the latest Gnome Desktop on Arch Linux

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    Hobby Egee

    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.

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    Hobby Egee

    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

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    Hobby Egee

    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!

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  • Space Egee Searches For Starship Fuel At Erchius Mining Facility

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    Hobby Egee

    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.

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

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    Hobby Egee

    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
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    Hobby Egee

    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

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    Hobby Egee

    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

  • Whoa! Now I’m posting from Tusky on my instance.

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    Hobby Egee

    I wonder where this will show up..

  • Load Test Recap

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    Hobby Egee

    Boo. I was hoping for fireworks (or the instance almost going down again). Instead I got a very well behaved system.

    I actually need it to fall over because this didn’t touch the zramswap I configured.

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  • Load Test – Take 2

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    Hobby Egee

    So my last toot did indeed work but it kinda almost took the instance down.

    There’s a massive network spike that happens after an engagement. I think I can soften the blow with zramswap.. Let’s find out!

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  • Is.. This Thing On?

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    Hobby Egee

    Last I checked, there was problems with posts showing up on the federated timeline. Has that been fixed yet? 😅

  • A Day Down Is A Day Up!

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    Hobby Egee

    I was so busy yesterday that I didn’t post anything. I’ve been trying to fill up my front page with posts (of varying quality). Here’s another one added to the pile.

    Site Health is good! Despite a couple of niggling things

    WordPress offers such cool features that you don’t think of when you host a static site. Site Health, for example. It provides all kinds of checks that you may not even think of when hosting your website. And I don’t want to think about them! I’m hosting this site to write posts, not maintain the back end.

    That’s something that gets lost in the sauce for a lot of developers-turned-bloggers. Just because you know how to do everything by hand, doesn’t mean you should. I get paid to write and maintain code at my day job. I don’t get paid for it for doing it on my free time.

    Sometimes, I just want to write. So here I go, writing again. 🖋️

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  • Still Comin’ Along

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    Hobby Egee

    It’s a new day and a holiday in the ‘States. It’s MLK day and I’m working on the website again this morning.

    I put a hour or so into the home page and templates. I’m using the Raft theme and it’s capable but there’s lots of tweaks I’ve had to do.

    I’m also still putting up content on the site so I know how everything looks and runs. Here’s another one! 🚀

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  • Egee.io: Back Online!

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    Hobby Egee

    On the last website, the most recent post was “Egee.io’s not dead yet!”… And then it abruptly died.

    I was trying to wrangle the back end with Podman and everything went to hell. I decided to hose it all out, database included. We’re good now.

    I’m writing this little piece to get some content out there. I’m browsing themes and I’m looking for a good one.

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