Beyond All Reason is an awesome RTS descended from Total Annihilation 🤖 The game is based on the Recoil engine (formerly SpringRTS) and thus entirely open source, which makes it doubly interesting as players can directly participate in improving the game.

As on all classic RTS games, one...

Guide on removing a Linux mdadm RAID1 array while preserving existing partition data, avoiding the need to reinstall or copy files around.

If you ever end up with a similar need, here is how I did it. It goes without saying that you should back up data before doing anything, otherwise you acce...

I recently migrated virtual machines from VMware ESXi to Proxmox VE, and hit a few quirks in the process. Here are my notes in case that may help.

Both VMware ESXi and Proxmox VE support OVF. The goal is to export a VM in OVF format from VMware ESXi and then import the OVF on Proxmox VE.

It’s been several years now that OVH offers dedicated hosting under 3 brands:

• OVH itself, targeting high-end and enterprises willing to pay top $$$.
• SoYouStart, for good hardware on a reasonable budget.
• Kimsufi, the low-cost offering.

When spinning up a dedicated...

Open source communities on collaborative Git platforms (such as GitHub and GitLab) usually ask contributors to submit changes to the upstream repository from a fork.

Unlike an actual fork which branches off from upstream and has a life of its own, a contribution fork merely is a container for co...

I’ve been fortunate enough to own an ASUS TUF RTX 3080 OC since January. It’s a great gaming card but I was slightly surprised with the memory thermal performance, noticing \(T_{junction}\) spikes up to 104°​C in certain circumstances (hello DLSS + Ray Tracing). It seems this is still within okay-...