Blog

Welcome to my blog. I'm trying to post things whenever I get inspired to write something. Sometimes it's more often, and sometimes not so much. The subject can vary quite a lot, but it tends to be mostly about tech.

I don't have any commenting enabled at the moment, because no one really comments anything except spammers, but if you have any thoughts on anything, feel free to email me at niklas@uplink.fi.

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Blog Posts

The State of Linux Gaming

Tech

I remember switching to Linux full time in about 2003 when XP SP2 came out. I had been thinking about it for a while, but the update that switched on the then badly configured firewall was the one that pushed me over the edge.

Since then I have always had a Windows installation on my main home com...

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A Game of A Game of Thrones

Gaming

Yesterday I met up with some friends to play some boardgames. Since we had six players we decided to play a game of "A Game of Thrones", one of my all-time favourite games. I haven't play aGoT in a long time, probably not since the the TV series first aired.

When they pulled out the box I got a bi...

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Virtual Tabletop

Gaming

As some of you may know, I'm an avid tabletop RPG gamer and GM most of all. For most of my life, since my late teens, I have been playing RPG:s at least once a month with an average of perhaps 2,5 times a month.

Lately however our main group have gotten a lot of scheduling conflicts, and we haven'...

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