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Hi there, I'm Marf.

This is pretty much my spot on the internet, however as of yet i haven't found anything to put here. I'm a Full time Sysadmin and Programmer, and a Linux Nerd. As i'm also into electronics, I also have some intrests in embedded hardware. And have some intrests in HamRadio. I also have a softspot for old Computers.

And i'm a dutch person.

Final Fantasy 14

Currently i've been sucked in a MMO called Final Fantasy 14. i like to make photographs in-game with some tools. when the page is ready you can view them in the menu. There i play as an Male Miqo'te also known as a Catboy.

Linux

My first time when i encountered Linux was a youtube video where someone was showing off their Ubuntu 6.04/6.10 desktop On YouTube, Sadly the music has been removed because of copyright. This is where it all started.
And my first Linux distro is ofcourse Ubuntu. I used Ubuntu until they started to push snap i had a terrible experience with snap. This made me switch to Debian for some time, I still use Debian mainly for servers and computers i dont use as much (Because arch likes to break when not updated regularly)
Later i switched to Manjaro, then to ArchLinux which i still use today. I switched from Manjaro before the whole drama that happend with the main maintainer, as i was experimenting with PCIe passthrough to Virtual Machines this was alot of fun, but... my motherboard has terrible IOMMU grouping, where my second x16 (actually x4 in speed thanks to the b450 chipset and the limited lanes Ryzen has) slot it got shared with my ethernet port and some other pcie devices, so i had to patch my kernel with ACS override as this patch is not in the mainline kernel line for a very good reason (security, VM escapes), this forced me to recompile the Linux kernel with the patch in it and on manjaro this was a nightmare so this was the reason i switched to Arch. and i do not recommend to anyone to do this without knowing the risks. I see alot of systems where people do this without knowing the risks in their homelab, although it's hard for a VM escape and the chances are low but the risks are still there.

Retro computers

I have a small collection of some retro machines. my current collection is: You can find more about my retro computers on my Retro Stuff page (However the page not online yet). Including about my 486 Dx2 that was saved before it got scrapped, it was from a elementary school i think, it has drawings saved on the disk that was been made with windows 3.1's paintbrush (MSPaint). It has names on them and those will be redacted for privacy sake

Minecraft

You might be also know me for SweetNyanCraft. It was a Minecraft server that was a Survival Free2Build. I used hosted myself in mid 2011 until 2015, had many reboots which all failed. in 2020 I decided to pull the plug. in 2022 i cancelled the domain, however someone bought it, this is not me. in 2024, i recoverd the domain for archival reasons. SweetNyanCraft has its own dedicated page on the menu if you want to know more, read the history, world downloads and site backups.

But you also might know me from Xisumavoid, I used to be a administrator in my spare time, I mainly maintained LPMT season 1, and in my later years the famous Hermitcraft server. I left the staff team in september 2022 to focus on other things.

You also might know me from Shamblecraft, I'm an administrator there but i'm not active on the server, only keeping the backend running. Fun fact it has some code from SweetNyanCraft ;) but even that comes to an end, as techically im still part of the team sortof, i dont consider myself an admin there since March 2024.

I do occasionally host Minecraft servers today, for example hosting a server with the group of friends i play Final Fantasy with. and today i still host a version of SweetNyanCraft world from 2012 as a Singleplayer world like as a "What if SweetNyanCraft Never shutdown kind of thing" that i share with my boyfriend and some friends but it's Private. and it runs on the latest version of Minecraft.

Habbo Private servers

When I was very young I had some intrests with private habbo servers, My Hotel was called Tomb Hotel (The name was a joke, as the server software was extremly unstable :P. like sending a wrong packet will crash the entire server, it was because we called it "Graf ding" in dutch which translated to Tomb thing) this is where i mostly learned C# because of holographic emulator, it was alot of fun, I also added a feature that you could turn into a Cat, Dog or a crocodille.
It was mostly a friends only server. I also learned to make custom furniture although i wasnt good with pixel art, a friend was and so we worked togeter as i knew how to make it a .cct file. but because of Sulake started to breakdown on private servers and I started to play Minecraft alot more I decided to scrap all of it in 2011.

They still seem to exist today in 2024, but i'm not sure for how long. Many of the offices across the globe has vanished, and the old moderator team is replaced. it is never been as active as 10 years ago. They also seemed to merged all of the hotels into one. And they recently launched a 2006 version of the shockwave hotel, called Habbo Hotel Origins. So that's fun, but i'm not sure how long that also will keep exisiting after the whole nostalgia factor will worn out.

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Updated on: 2024-October-25