Blog Archive: December 2022

Top 15 Gaming and Creator Laptops with Intel Core i9 2023

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Intel Core i9 processor-powered laptops have already established their authority among gaming laptops, now gaining momentum among creators.

Without much hesitation, I will say that I9 is going to rock in 2023 too.

Intel Core i9-powered laptops come with a price attached. You should be willing to spend about $1,500-$4,000 in 2023

In this article, I have listed the top 15 gaming/creator laptops with Intel Core i9 processors. 11th, 12th, and 13th version available. 

A quick note: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on the Amazon site, I might earn an affiliate income from that. The prices for laptop computers listed on this page are retrieved using Amazon Product Advertising API and are updated daily. For actual prices please refer to the product page on Amazon.

ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 Gaming Laptop, 15.6” 300Hz IPS FHD Display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, Intel Core i9 12900H, 16GB DDR5, 512GB SSD, Per-Key RGB Keyboard, Windows 11 Home, G533ZM-ES93

Compete at the highest level of Windows 11 gaming with the ROG Strix SCAR 15 gaming…

How To Gain Access to Linode over Finnix SSH in Rescue Mode

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In this article, I will keep some notes on how I accessed an "inaccessible" Linode over SSH using Rescue mode.

Brief background: More than 10 years ago (in 2012) I did set up a virtual server for XTRF translation management software, back then I choose freshly released Debian 6 (which reached its end of Life back in February 2016).  

Back in the day, XTRF was not a big name, and most of the help support was done over some simple MS Word documents. I followed the tutorial and set and forget the server for years to come. 
 

At the end of 2018, the server just stopped working - after several unsuccessful attempts to reanimate it I just gave up, as the newer and better versions of XTRF were released. We decided to continue with the newer version, and keep the old version in the backups, just in case someday we will need something out of it. 

How To Install XTRF 8 on Ubuntu 18.04

Fast forward to the end of 2022 - and this day came - I was looking for ways how to minimize our monthly payment on Linode and noticed we have a few unactive instances for whom we are paying money, which we could not.…