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Wecome to my channel! I hope you like my content!
Who am I? My real name is Michel Hoogervorst and I'm a voice actor and singer, but I used to be in IT (for the past 16 years as a Linux admin, to be precise).
In the years I have worked in IT, I didn't really have the drive to tinker with computers at home, but as soon as I quit my job... the hobby started coming back to me! On this channel, I will post irregular videos about computer-related stuff that interests me.
Who am I? My real name is Michel Hoogervorst and I'm a voice actor and singer, but I used to be in IT (for the past 16 years as a Linux admin, to be precise).
In the years I have worked in IT, I didn't really have the drive to tinker with computers at home, but as soon as I quit my job... the hobby started coming back to me! On this channel, I will post irregular videos about computer-related stuff that interests me.
Chuwi LarkBox X, awesome little machine!
A little review of the Chuwi LarkBox X, a small Intel N100 NUC with very impressive performance compared to it's size and power draw!
I will be testing this machine a bit using Linux, to see how well it performs.
My power draw measurements can be found in this sheet:
github.com/exitguy/bits/raw/main/Power.ods
Credit:
The intro consists of me singing over "The Rostrum" from the Wacky Wheels OST.
I will be testing this machine a bit using Linux, to see how well it performs.
My power draw measurements can be found in this sheet:
github.com/exitguy/bits/raw/main/Power.ods
Credit:
The intro consists of me singing over "The Rostrum" from the Wacky Wheels OST.
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Gaming on this 2012 server in 2024?
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This Fujitsu Primergy TX100 S3 belongs to a friend of mine. In this video I show you how I cleared the harddrives and see how it does in modern Linux. Is it a good enough desktop today? Can we even play some games with it, if we add a decent graphics card? Let's find out! The intro consists of me singing over "The Rostrum" from the Wacky Wheels OST. Power consumption measurements of different s...
Fixing display issues on this 2008 iMac!
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Someone asked if this could be repaired on the cheap. I figured I'd give it a try. In this video I'll show you how I got to the graphics card and at least temporarily fixed the issue show on screen. I'll test it with Linux as well to see how well it does on that. Attribution: The intro consists of me singing over "The Rostrum" from the Wacky Wheels OST.
Converting an Azerty keyboard to Qwerty
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I got some keyboards for free! But... they're Azerty. I thought it would be fun to convert them to Qwerty. I'll show you how in this video. I won't link to the stickers I used. Just search 'keyboard stickers' and you'll find even cheaper ones than the once I got. Like the intro music? It's based on "The Rostrum" from the Wacky Wheels OST. Want to send me stuff? My e-mail is in the channel descr...
Build your own retro-pc with 86Box!
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Want to play around with vintage computers without paying vintage prices? In this video I will show you how I built a 386SX pc in 86Box! Get 86Box from 86box.net/ Roms are here: github.com/86Box/roms/ Installation paths for these roms, are here: 86box.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/roms.html 0:00 Introduction to 86Box 2:28 Building my old 386SX pc! 4:27 Installing MS-DOS 5.0 10:20 Installing Wi...
Getting modern Linux to run on a 2006 Mac Pro
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I recently picked up this old Mac Pro 1,1. In this video I will show you my journey of getting the thing to boot a modern Linux OS. Matt Gadient's awesome page with loads of information about this subject: mattgadient.com/linux-dvd-images-and-how-to-for-32-bit-efi-macs-late-2006-models/ Jensd's solution for running Windows 11 on a Mac Pro 1,1: jensd.be/1954/windows/install-windows-11-on-a-mac-p...
Bringing your DOS games from GOG.com onto your actual DOS pc with the help of Innoextract
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So you have bought a DOS game on GOG to play on your awesome 386... only to find out it's packed in a Windows-installer. In this video, I'll show you how to unpack your game files from the Windows installer, using innoextract. And... you'll get to see some mediocre Wolfenstein 3D gameplay. Want to try this yourself? Innoextract can be found at constexpr.org/innoextract/ On MacOS, the easies way...
Long running tasks over SSH - 4 solutions!
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Don't you jus hate it when a script you need to run takes hours to complete while you're on a remote laptop with an almost drained laptop and no power supply at hand? Here are 4 possible solutions to run your task without having to keep your laptop running! 0:00 The problem 0:35 The simple solution 0:59 The proven solution 2:19 The modern solution 3:42 The lifesaver
IBM Thinkpad A22m BIOS battery replacement
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I couldn't find any good info on how to replace the BIOS battery of my IBM Thinkpad A22m laptop, so I figured I'd document how I did it. Background Music: Lazy Laura by Quincas Moreira, downloaded from the CZcams audio library.
Organise your notes with a personal wiki! - Zim (fixed)
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Re-uploaded because of audio issues. I used to open a text-editor if I wanted to make a quick note, which obviously wasn't optimal. That is, until a colleague of mine showed me Zim (thanks Nilton!). It's a desktop Wiki. You can order your notes in pages and subpages, and you can do a keyword search if you can't remember where you put a certain note. In short: it's frickin' awesome! Get Zim from...
Create your own airplay screen with UxPlay and a Raspberry Pi!
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Do you have a spare screen and can't connect it to your Macbook? Or maybe you want to make your meeting room display or beamer capable of Airplay mirroring? Maybe you're a voice actor, like I am, and you might want a wirelessly connected screen in your booth. You can do that, using a Raspberry Pi and some software called UxPlay! In this video, I will show you how I did it. Commands used in this...
Ooh, fellow dutchie! Subcount +1
Awesome! Dank je wel! 😁
Proton uses either DXVK or VKD3D to translate dx9 10 11 and 12 games to Vulcan. Your GPU is most likely way too old for that
It is indeed. A follow up video will... follow 😄
The first intel mac pro had a 64 bits cpu, but it had a 32 bits UEFI. So with linux you have to change the UEFI loader to be 32 bits. Otherwise these old mac's will not start. Later models did not have this problem.
That's indeed what's in the video haha I wanted to use a distro that didn't need intervention to fix this though.
I really liked their tablets, they are all pretty premium made compared to al lthe other cheap crap on the market
I didn't know them before, we just bought the cheapest N100 we didn't have to buy from AliExpress haha But I'm impressed, the quality seems higher than my own AWOW model.
Dude, your narration and video style is so comforting to watch! Hope you reach 1,000 subs soon and grow into a really popular channel! Glad to sub to you this early in your career!
Thank you so much! 😃
WINDOWS 11 IS SPYWARE
Haha, "extra spyware", have it your way ;-)
3:01 is the usual problem solving strategy of IT people, isn't it? 🤣
Sssst 🤫
Leuke video! Ik vind je videos heel leuk om naar te kijken, doe zo voort! 😊
Dank je wel!
I can't believe you 3d printed the save icon!
Hahaha 🤣
I also loved to upgrade old machines, some years ago I ordered a used CPU from China and also used a Nvidia 750ti I had laying around in an old office machine.
How did that Chinese cpu work out? Sounds interesting!
@@ex-itguy Was some years ago, can't remember it well. I think it was a Core 2 Quad. Looked in the PC manual before, what max cpu I could take! Ordered via Ebay. It arrived maybe 1 1/2 weeks later. And worked straight away! Never had a problem with it, and with the GPU it was enough to run Counterstrike well! But I gifted the PC to a friend. But it was the reason I got into PC gaming again, this little upgrade project I made. I now own a prebuild and am happy with it ;)
Ah so it was a proper Intel cpu. It can be hit or miss with stuff from China haha. Nothing wrong with prebuilds. If it's good it's good. ;)
@@ex-itguy It was about energy consumption, I build a system myself but it consumed 130w in idle (whole system with monitor etc). And everything was configured the best I could do. I then sold it and bought a prebuild, now 80w in idle (whole system again). I don't know if its something with efficiency and self builds. The components where all very good. Sure, it also had a liquid cooler etc. But the prebuild got about the same power as my self build back then. And consumes way less.
That's quite the difference indeed! Hard to find which components cause that without having others to try. The GTX670 that I show shortly in this video performs about the same as the GTX1050Ti... but uses about twice as much power, both idle and under load. Btw if you like low power devices, you might like the unit in the video I'm working on now. ;)
I just skimmed through your video, but is there a reason you can't swap the actual keys, are there size and shape differences to prevent that?
I did swap some keys, but most are just wrong no matter their position. :)
You made a grown man want to play disney speedstorm 😂
Haha, it's awesome! 😆
Leuke video! Ik denk dat deze server nog een leuke pc kan zijn 😊
Dat denk ik ook! En met dit stroomverbruik zelfs nog prima in te zetten als servertje voor thuis. :)
4:11 hey it me! Hi me!
Hello me! Nice talking to myself! 😆
Nice, but can it run crysis? 🤔
Dammit, forgot to try that! 😂
悪くないね🤔
I'm surprised the power draw isn't actually that bad. I still wouldn't use it as a server though, running that 57 watts continously would cost €150 per year.
If you keep the onboard video it's just over 30 watts, which isn't that bad. Not the best but surely more powerful than mini systems of the same age if needed.
Back then CPUs were between 50 and 100W. Even the high end ones. AMD of that time was notorious for excessive power draw and high cooling requirements, but even AMD had a decent idle power draw.
Found this randomly from the youtube recommendations. I remember years ago installing linux on a Mac Mini 1,1 that had a 32-bit intel cpu, it has the same 32-bit EFI problem it seems as the early 64-bit machines. I even remember running the same patch to remove the EFI loader from the ISO. Excellent video, subscribed :)
Thanks! 😃
This gives me hope to resurrect my good ol' 2008 iMac
Check my 2008 iMac video! ;) TLDR; if you've got one, there's nothing keeping you from installing Linux. WiFi could be a challenge though, so you might want to change the WiFi card for something more compatible. :)
Who made your intro music?
It's music from Wacky Wheels and me singing
nicr content
Thanks!
Why linux???? This PC without any promblem can run Windows 11 pro, this is better than linux
if you need help, how to install it, write me. P.S. i also installed windows 11 even on imac 2006
What if I don't want to run Windows? I left that behind me some 15 years ago. ;)
the answer is always grubia32.efi :D
gpu swap it.
I'm going to, and see how it does. I imagine it would be pretty capable with a more modern gpu. :)
love the fact how frustrated you are
Thanks hahaha
make sure to install flatpak in the arch system, so you would get software in the software app.
try wayland in the debian session. i hope that'll work.
I think this old gpu just doesn't work with Wayland for the lack of Vulkan support. I'm going to revisit this machine in a while though. Maybe just switch the graphics card and see how that goes.
@@ex-itguy does solus work? try
@@player277-ml3ts I was today years old when I learned about the existence of Solus.
Are you dutch?
Jazeker!
For games you could have tried some emulation, I presume anything before thr ps3 era might work?
Not sure, I think you're right. I was gonna get rid of it but people came with some interesting suggestions for it so I'm going to revisit it sometime. Maybe try another graphics card in it as well, see how that goes. I'll try some emulation. :)
Duct tape! A WOOHOO!
I had that ringing in my ears for the past week or so 😂
@@ex-itguy How I do to! 😂
Leuke video!
Dank je wel!
incredible how vista installs better than windows pcs, there was aero out of the box, on most pcs there are no drivers preinstalled
It ran great indeed, sadly it's greatly outdated.
Well saved!👍👍 This video clearly demonstrates why I don't bother with iMacs, as they are not designed for simple maintenance.
I always thought they were cool, but now I know I don't need one indeed haha
@@ex-itguy If one came my way free of charge then I would take it.
Sure, same probably. I'm just not looking for them anymore haha The newer models are even worse to work on with glued on displays...
@@ex-itguy Yes, that's correct and the newest ones cannot be upgraded as everything is soldered to the MB..
When I had a mid 2010 iMac, you could replace the GPU with one from a laptop, an 'MX' graphics card IIRC, but I might have got the name wrong, they're still not cheap though haha! Thanks for more amusing videos, your channel is a breath of fresh air mate! Greets from the UK!
A friend of mine who's more into Apple stuff just told me about the mxm graphics card standard that kinda failed. Shame. Would've been a good option if those were more widely available. :) Thanks for your kind words! Greetings from the Netherlands!
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Hello 🙂
Thermal paste ❌ Tooth paste ✅
Brushed my teeth with the rest of that tube. Never felt cooler in my entire life!
1:12 duct tape woohoo
lol
Hey i'm wondering what system was it running before you tried lunix?
Just MacOS, but I don't have the password to login and I didn't want to clear the harddrive.
@@ex-itguy No it was that it booted into a menu and since it a old imac i wonder which menu it was using but stil thank you for your response!
Ah right! It just gave two options for the same hd, but only one actually boots into MacOS and the other does nothing. It's not a special boot menu, it's just the Mac seeing two options and asking which one. The same as holding option (or alt) down with a disc or usb stick in it.
@@ex-itguy Huh thats weird isn't that iMac not to old to run newer bios firmware? Like i'm pretty sure that dark mode wasn't added back then or my computer is too old
@@A_Basic_Guy that's because it's running opencore patcher, when he boots it up at 4:50 it displays opencore, and an option to boot into big sur. which obviously the 2008 definitely did not get support for lol
No, it doesn't look retro in virtualbox because it's for program tests
He used Arch btw
Hi, When I'm trying to connect from iPhone XR, it is getting disconnected, showing following error: Accepted IPv6 client on socket 33 Local : fe80::f2b4:3fa2:fe34:4049%3 Remote: fe80::0cd2:eb7b:f999:3799%3 connection request from iPhone XR (iPhone11,8) with deviceID = xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Client identified as User-Agent: AirPlay/760.20.1 Accepted IPv6 client on socket 35 Local : fe80::f2b4:3fa2:fe34:4049%3 Remote: fe80::0cd2:eb7b:f999:3799%3 raop_rtp_mirror starting mirroring Begin streaming to GStreamer video pipeline ** (uxplay:2495): CRITICAL **: 23:27:28.688: gst_v4l2_buffer_pool_orphan: assertion 'bpool' failed GStreamer error: GStreamer encountered a general resource error. Removing connection for socket 33 *** ERROR: *** invalid ntp_time < gst_video_pipeline_base_time 1716141449.043604 ntp_time 1716141449.679853 base_time raop_rtp_mirror->running is no longer true Removing connection for socket 35 What could be the issue?
I have no idea. It's complaining about ntp though, maybe your time/date settings are off?
We are in a world where old computers are bad to run modern software but Linux still works on a old Mac like this one. I'm still using a +14 year old laptop with 3GB RAM. I used an SSD and installed an extreme lightweight version of Windows and it works so well. +1 sub from me.
I totally agree. Yes newer computers are faster. Nope, you don't "need" them if you're not running demanding tasks. :) I bought a new MacBook last year because video editing became sluggish on my 2015 one. For other things I still use the old one almost daily. :)
nice.... surprisingly Arch ran fine on an ancient hardware 😂
Sounds like Mac 1,1 is rapidly approaching e-waste. Most people aren't going to want to frak around with a hacky 32-bit loader on a 64-bit machine, and it won't run modern software with decent speed
I hope this helps someone to give their old Mac a second life. ;) I disagree with you on the speed, it's pretty snappy, even on a hdd.
when you're so broke you're putting stickers on your $5 keyboard to change it. I'm sitting here with an Apex Pro and the keycap set I have costs more than your whole keyboard!!! LOL
shut up, you’re not special
Haha, well to be honest I thought about buying a shortcut sticker sheet for Reaper (my DAW), but got served these and thought: "that could be fun"! 😆
I love your content, hope your channel grow more !!!
Thank you so much!
Leuke video!
Dank je wel!
Nooooo...... it's hurting my typing OCD LOL - The \ & | should be to the left of the z & that last key you stickered up should be the # & ~ Keyboard hunting is no fun, I run low light levels in the studio & need a keyboard with backlit letters which is yet another layer of things to check before purchase.
Hahaha, I tried it out on a Linux box and the key on the left of the z checks out so I left it like that. I don't think these stickers are fun on backlit keyboards as you can't see through them. :)
When I clicked on the link, I thought this was going to be about the G5 version. That would've been more interesting!
Modern Linux on a G5 would be a challenge for sure haha
We use Azerty in Belgium because we need to be able to type both dutch and french. I myself really hate typing french on Azerty, I much prefer the US International keyboard with dead keys. Getting a Qwerty keyboard in Belgium isn't that hard, I can just order it from The Netherlands.
Ah that makes sense. There are no Belgian Qwerty boards I guess?
@@ex-itguy Nope, Azerty is the standard here. Just weird people like me want Qwerty I guess.
Well now you know you can buy stickers 😆