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Posts in 2023

Running Rocket Chat on an Intel Celron CPU in 2023 on 25th of Mar
Running Rocket Chat on a Raspberry Pi in 2023 on 15th of Mar
Fixing UE5 Actors Disappearing when Building Lighting on 1st of Jan
Fixing UE5 Level Sequence Assertion on 1st of Jan

Posts in 2022

Raspberry Pi 4 with Docker on 30th of Dec
Fixing UE5 Chaos Events at Runtime on 27th of Dec
Scam Warning on 26th of Nov
Casting Video to VLC via Home Assistant on 20th of Nov
Advanced Git LFS and Jenkins on 16th of Nov
Baking Ambient Occlusion using Blender on 2nd of Oct
Live GivEnergy PV Inverter Data in Home Assistant on 10th of Apr
Useful ffmpeg Recipes on 31st of Jan
Force Refresh Rocket.Chat Snap SSL Certificate via Caddy on 29th of Jan

Posts in 2021

Pushing to Public AWS Container Registry with GitHub Actions on 23rd of May
Graphing Sensor Data from a Raspberry Pi with Grafana on 22nd of May
Create Meshes from Height Maps using Blender on 16th of May
Recording Camera Animations for UE4 with a Phone on 15th of May
The Art of Mirror's Edge on 11th of Apr
Serving Static Websites Using Lambda@Edge on 20th of Mar
Thread Safe Random in C♯ on 16th of Mar
Spotting Fake Indie Game Key Requests on 11th of Mar
Jenkins Library for Unreal Engine 4 on 13th of Feb
Three Approaches to Readable Materials in First Person Games on 7th of Feb
Cheap Synthetic Monitoring with AWS Lambda on 24th of Jan

Posts in 2020

Generating Mipmaps for Render Targets in UE4 on 24th of Dec
Routing DNS over HTTPS Using Raspberry Pi on 6th of Oct
Tips for Building Games with Unreal Engine 4 on 3rd of Oct
Serving Localised Assets from S3 Using Lambda@Edge on 17th of May

Posts in 2019

Automating macOS Notarization for UE4 on 23rd of Nov

Posts in 2018

ISO Country Code to Unicode Flag in C♯ and JavaScript on 22nd of Jul
Serverless Git LFS for Game Development on 6th of Jan
Adding Custom Map Checks in UE4 on 3rd of Jan

Posts in 2017

Building and Deploying a React App Using AWS Lambda on 24th of Dec
Git HTTP Username and Password in Environment Variables on 22nd of Dec
Capturing and Uploading Screenshots in UE4 on 20th of Dec
Using Capsule Shadows on Large Objects in UE4 on 8th of Dec

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Running Rocket Chat on an Intel Celron CPU in 2023

📅 March 25th, 2023 🔖 cloud-software ⏲️ 7 minutes to read

I previously wrote about Running Rocket Chat on a Raspberry Pi in 2023, and ended the post by saying I was emulating the x86_64 build of Rocket Chat on the Pi's ARM CPU (you may want to skim it for context).

As you may have guessed from the title of this post... emulation didn't work out, it was too unstable. I could deal with slowness, but not unreliability. I figured, I'll go the route of least friction, and buy a cheap x86_64 Intel CPU. I landed on hardware with a Intel Celeron N4505 , released Q1 2021.

I shifted everything over to this machine, and it all worked great! The latest version of Rocket Chat (6.x at the time of writing) worked fine, and I stuck with version 4.4.15 of MongoDB. When I did try upgrading that, it crashed. I didn't think much of it, but little did I know this was yet another rabbit hole.