Nemophila's blog

More Steam Replay data

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:12:17 +0100

Since 2022, Steam releases a Steam Replay (or Steam Year in Review) to each of their users. It looks cool, has a lot of information, but it hides some of the data behind percentages. I wanna know how many hours I’ve played, yet this statistic doesn’t even show up once?

Well, there’s a less fancy way to find it: by directly calling the API.

Migrating to a new Matrix homeserver

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:12:22 +0200

Recently, some friends and I decided to switch servers for a more powerful one. We also decided to move away from our old domain, which got more expensive to renew, and use a new one.

For some services, switching domains has close to no implications. But for a self-hosted Matrix instance, it means re-creating the entire homeserver, as there is no way to just change the domain name.

I decided to write this post to help people who may have to move to another homeserver.

Using your phone as a webcam

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:58:15 +0200

For a while, I thought to myself: why use my laptop for job interviews or other occasions that require the use of a webcam, just because I need a video feed?

I find it annoying both because the quality is not that great (compared to current phone cameras, for instance), and because I’d rather stay on my desktop computer.

What we’re going to do?

I’ll quickly show the setup I found which works very well.

Adjusting NVIDIA GPU on Linux

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:00:14 +0200

When I made the switch from Windows to Linux, one thing I had forgotten about was that I had made adjustments to my NVIDIA GPU through software such as MSI Afterburner. My current GPU is a RTX 3070Ti, and it can run a bit too hot to my taste, especially since MSI pushed its performance quite a lot.

You can read my post about doing the same thing on Windows.

The starting point

For reference, here are the stats when running a Uningine Superposition Benchmark:

Adjusting NVIDIA GPU on Windows

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:00:14 +0200

MSI Afterburner

MSI Afterburner is all things considered a good software (I just hate the themes they apply by default, it just looks obnoxious). It is quite reliable, provides a performance overlay (RivaTuner statistics), and allows us to adjust a lot of parameters for GPUs.

Some interesting take aways are that there are 4 main parameters we could adjust :

Core voltage
Core clock
Memory clock
Power limit

And we could adjust temperature limit as well as fan speed. But I ended up keeping those untouched in my target setup.