Bazzite on the HX77G and a Xeon desktop

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Hello all again! It’s been a bit of a while between the beginning of the year and now. I went from usually having a full schedule at my newer job to seeing myself and others have our hours drastically cut back. While I look for new employment to fill the gap, I have more time for projects. Here’s to finding the positivity and motivation in the hopeless abyss that is the current USA landscape, to work on projects.

Here we have my Minisforum model hx77g somewhat-low-end mini desktop. I’m of the opinion that Minisforum upcycles laptop motherboards and processors into small power-efficient desktops. Would be cool if an investigative youtuber like Strange Parts did a walkthrough of their factories. In a way, this could be seen similar to what Framework is doing with their Framework Desktop.

Originally receiving this tiny guy for a cheap $480 during end-of-2024 discounts, my plan was to make it the living room light gaming and media consumption machine. End goal is to have this, possibly an M2 Mac Mini a friend may be giving me and an Analogue 3D hooked up to the TV to switch between physical media gaming, ARM media consumption and gaming on x86/64.

I’ve also recently replaced my previous desktop with a Zen 4 one in the HYTE Revolt case through the help of a friend that has access to more parts, so now I’m working on building another Xeon + Intel GPU build in that case, pictured below:

Outside of those updates, not much going on for now. Once I finish the Xeon build repurposing the previous case, I think I’ll likely sell it with Bazzite on it to a friend or to anyone that follows my blog local to the USA, if interested. After that, I intend on using the ROCK 5 ITX board to build a low-power NAS with some hard drives, but more on that to come.

Some cool things I’ve been following recently: