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Film watchmap

Some people have a map where they mark all the countries they visited. Other folks keep a list of the movies they’ve seen. I decided to combine the two and create a map of all countries I’ve seen a movie or TV show from.

Watchmap

I decided to only add films ...

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Beer fermentation tank size

Since no brewery can exist without beer fermentation tanks, I wanted to add them to my railway model layout as well. However, at first I didn’t find any plastic model kit that looked like what I wanted. I began to research the size of ...

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Sułoszowa

Sułoszowa is a village in Poland, where all houses are situated on the same street. With 9 km length, it’s one of the longest of its kind. It has a population of 3,499 (2021). (Wikipedia)

Aerial photos of the place certainly are eye-catching: houses as far ...

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Stalker 2: How to get “Wiped Out” achievement

One of the achievements in the game is called Wiped Out, where you must kill a Rodent with a grenade launcher: “Kill a Rodent using a grenade launcher. A good wipe-out makes the Duty proud.”

To do so, you must either have a rocket launcher or an under-barrel grenade launcher (e.g. the GP-25 grenade launcher attachment for the AKM-74S). The rocket launcher can ...

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Stalker 2: How to get the Weird Water artifact

Inventory size/being encumbered was one of my main issues in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. You carry 2 weapons, a pistol, med packs, a bit of food, and ammunition, and you’re already slowing down.

Probably the single best solution to tackle this, is to get the We ...

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Using OverlayScrollbars in my Drupal installation.

How to add OverlayScrollbars to your Drupal 10+ installation

There are several cases why you’d want to change the native browser scrollbars for your website—whether you feel like they take up too much space, want to play around a bit, or simply don’t like how they look. One way ...

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Installing AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT firmware and drivers on Gentoo Linux

Since I had a fairly old GPU (an AMD Radeon RX 570 to be specific), I waited for the release of the Radeon RX 9000 series to finally upgrade. I was amazed how smooth the shift went. To be fair, I waited a several weeks after the initial release to make sure that people will make the necessary firmware and drivers available on Gentoo ...

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All ingredients for a water/glue mix to ballast your tracks: glue, water and dishwasher soap.

Glue and water mix for track ballasting

Since I ballasted my tracks some days back, I was looking for a good glue/water mixture that does the job properly. After doing some online research, I came across a YouTube video covering exactly ...

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phpMyAdmin errors in combination with froxlor and php-fpm

I noticed that my phpMyAdmin installation displayed the following message every time I logged in:

The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret).
The $cfg['TempDir'] (/var/lib/phpmyadmin/tmp/) is not accessible. phpMyAdmin is not able to cache templates and will be slow because of this.
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A close-up photo of the finished tracks.

Tychy Brewery: Tracks and ballasting are done

I’m finally done with the tracks on my model railroad shelf layout. I went with the Tillig H0-ELITE-track system since I heard only good things about it, and must say that I’m more than happy with the outcome.

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