If we’re being honest, looking at the global stage right now feels a bit like watching a server crashing, in slow motion. Between the noise of world politics and the general chaos of the headlines, it’s easy to feel like the "hope" slider has been set to an all-time low. It often feels like we’re […]

This year, I did some crazy, stupid things, like most years. But one of the craziest things this summer was when I randomly decided to dress up like a Santa. That's when I accidentally recorded this short little video message.

I've been using Pinokio ↗ for a while now. So, I've had plenty of experiences with it, and I also formed an opinion about it. And that's what I felt like sharing with you all. But first, what even is Pinokio? What? As you may know, the amount of apps and Gradio tools built around […]

Time to celebrate! Recently, on November 29th to be specific, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of this website and its domain name. We believe this is quite a memorable milestone, and we're going to celebrate this remarkable achievement. There are a couple of things we did to commemorate our anniversary, and you can read all […]

In a previous post, we built a private World of Warcraft server running the Wrath of the Lich King expansion with TrinityCore. This time we're building another WotLK server including PlayerBots with CMangos. After having played around with these PlayerBots I was really pleased with their behavior. I definately prefer them over the NPCBots we […]

In this post, you find a list of Docker containers that I personally find to be very useful to always have running. In case you never heard of Docker, this content is probably not for you. I'm going to assume that you're already somewhat familiar with Docker, and have it running on whatever OS you're […]

I cloned myself into an avatar by an AI. Turns out my clone had something to say. He asked me to post it here. How can I say no to myself? By the way, isn't he handsome?

So, there I was, just messing around with a new theme for this website, with my brain completely shutdown, when I decided to import something from somewhere for some new theme. I noticed that the import also added a bunch of fake, placeholder posts to my site. No big deal, it only took me a […]

Let's hate a bit on Apple first, to get it out of the way In general, I'm not a huge fan of Apple. I'm an Android/Samsung user myself, so I'm supposed to hate on Apple. Right? Isn't that how it's supposed to be? That's what I was thought. We are the good guys, Apple represents […]

Translation: Hello ustoopia (Andre), We had every confidence that you would reach this milestone and hopefully you did too. You are doing great. We would like to celebrate with you. Share this gif (and this good news) using the hashtag #1KCreator. Kind regards, Team YouTube

What exactly is a RAM disk?Why would I want to use a RAM disk?How large should the RAM disk be?How to create a RAM disk I've posted several articles in the past, most noteably this one, on the subject of live-streaming, so it shouldn't be a real big surprise that I'm doing another post on […]

Last week, I visited the Home Computer Museum in Helmond (https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl), and I decided to write a post on how I experienced this museum. This was in fact my second visit, since I visited the museum several years ago for a first time. In between my visits, many things have changed, all for the better. […]

This post is an addition to something I posted recently: https://www.ustoopia.nl/games/build-a-private-wow-wotlk-server-with-npc-bots-on-ubuntu-22-04/ So, you have your own private WoW server running now, and you would like to invite some friends to come and play with you on your realm. That is exactly when this tutorial comes in handy! To streamline the process of creating a user […]

Miss Poes. apr 2005 - 14 feb 2024. Sadface 🙁

What the script does, is build a decent live-stream server for you, from scratch, on a machine running on Ubuntu 22.04. The live-stream server will be fully configured and work out-of-the-box, with an RTMP entry to send your stream to, Adaptive bitrate streaming for the viewers in HLS and/or DASH formats. A webpage with a very basic video player is also included, and a simple /stat page can be used to display some data on the live-streams. To top it all off, I included a couple of pointers that will help you on your way in this environment.

This tutorial guides you through setting up a private World of Warcraft server for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, using TrinityCore on Ubuntu 22.04 with NPC bots. It provides step-by-step instructions, starting from server prerequisites to editing config files and dealing with the databases. The author shares a personal connection with WoW, experiences with the game, and the motivation behind creating the server, highlighting the importance of the game's social aspect and how innovation from the community has made such setups possible. The tutorial includes detailed technical steps and additional tools like Supervisor to manage the server processes.

This tutorial is an updated and improved version of a previous tutorial that I wrote. This new tutorial will work 100% on a (fresh) Ubuntu 22.04 system. The tutorial was put together in August 2023. UPDATE: I've put together a script that does everything automatically. Check it out here! All throughout this tutorial, I will […]

This post is the full introduction that goes together with a new tutorial that I'm posting shortly after this. Initially, this intro was included in the tutorial, until I made it a bit too long by rambling on. I realize this is a long, and perhaps too long post, but it does contain some useful […]