I wanted share a quick update on my gaming setup:
I used to have a desktop PC running Fedora Wrokstation which acted as my "Gaming PC," primarily for Cities Skylines II and Palworld.
Within the past month, I've repurposing that computer into a combination NAS/media server/gaming machine. I'll cover the rest of the change in another post, but here I wanted to focus on the gaming aspect real quick.
Scheduling Linux tasks isn't a new idea, but as I was creating a quick cron entry on my hotspot, it occurred to me that there may be some hams out there who aren't familiar with the process.
My objective was to have my hotspot connect to the "East Coast Reflector's (ECR)" YSF room each morning at 7am (eastern) for "The Morning Brew" radio net. My hotspot is running WPSD, which is a fork of the typical PiStar OS. This same concept should work on a PiStar hotspot, however, using the pi-star equivalent commands.
The Lynx Browser (not to be confused with the later Links Browser), is the oldest actively maintained web browser, initially developed in 1992 and still being maintained today. What makes lynx look a bit different from other modern browsers is the fact that even in 2025, it can only display basic text. The lynx browser ignores all of the ads, pictures, JavaScript, fancy formatting, and annoying infinitely-scrolling slop, to just delivery the content you want to read. Not only does this reduce distractions, but it's also great to use if your internet connection has limited bandwidth.
I've decided it's time to get my gopher server running again, and wanted to outline the basic steps for anyone else looking to dive into the gopherhole.
It recently occurred to me that as I update each Linux container or VM, I'm downloading a lot of the same files over and over again. While the downloads aren't huge, it still seems wasteful to request the same files from the repo mirrors so many times... So why not just download the update once and then distribute it locally to each of my systems?
That's the purpose of a caching proxy.
Ah, Cities Skylines 2:
