Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow

Setting Up A Private Mumble Server

Posted on 2026-07-09 by Stephan Sokolow

UPDATE 2026-07-26: Added links to The Death Generator and The Spriters Resource as suggestions for how to make a custom welcome message more fun and a link to an example of how to sandbox a miniserve-based companion HTTP server using … Continue reading →

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Tips Roll-up 2025 to Present

Posted on 2026-07-08 by Stephan Sokolow

Here are my 2025 tips too short for anywhere but Mastodon:

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A Simple “Modpack Info” Generator for SMAPI

Posted on 2026-07-07 by Stephan Sokolow

I’ve been playing Stardew Valley with a few friends, with mods, and, when one of them started experiencing intermittent packet loss that messed up the Discord call, I decided to set up a private Mumble server since Mumble has a … Continue reading →

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Tips Roll-up 2023-2024

Posted on 2025-02-12 by Stephan Sokolow

Here are a few things that I posted on Mastodon because they were too short for a blog post, but which I think should be cross-posted anyway for archival:

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Fixing Hotplug for the ATI Remote Wonder II on X11

Posted on 2024-01-21 by Stephan Sokolow

EDIT: It turns out hotplug wasn’t the problem. Something else is resetting the X11 keymap without it involving the device getting reset… I’m done with this nonsense. I’ll temporarily set a user cronjob to force it back to what it’s … Continue reading →

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Fanfiction – Taylor Varga

Posted on 2023-11-24 by Stephan Sokolow

Taylor Varga by mp3.1415player Length: 2,058,592 wordsStatus: OngoingCrossover: Worm + Luna Varga (but with the assumption nobody but the author has seen Luna Varga) Today’s fic is a doozy and not just for its eye-opening length. Like the stories by … Continue reading →

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Vorke V1 Plus Thermal/Fan Fix for Linux

Posted on 2023-11-17 by Stephan Sokolow

If you have a Vorke V1 Plus that doesn’t want to drive its fan under Linux, or which doesn’t want to shut off the fan after the UEFI turns it on at boot, here’s what worked for me: As for … Continue reading →

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