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Home server update

Gave the home server bit of a tidy up today, it needed it. Still looks a mess, but better than it was, and when you’re on a budget, you do what you can, with what you have on hand. So now the maintenance has been completed, thought I’d give a full break down on the […]

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Back and forth – AmigaOS

Back in my Amiga days, I was one of the (un)fortunate souls who ended up with an Amiga 500 Plus, which came with Kickstart 2.0 and ECS chipset. Great that it was new version, but unfortunately not quite backwards compatible with some older games, such as Pirates! which was one of my all time fav […]

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Dropouts. Resolved.

Well, a few months back, my internet at random would drop out, and not come back online until the router was reset. Then my home server (old desktop) started dropping out 2 HDD’s (out of 6) at random times and they would not come back until a reset. Solutions : Router : Replaced. Been no […]

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**** you Authy

Well, after recently recovering my Authy account, I’ve now found I’m pretty much locked out of all my Authy based 2FA accounts. I don’t know why, everything was fine, until late last week I started getting the message that I needed to enter my backup password again. Did that. “Incorrect” Bullshit its incorrect. Reset it […]

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Made the move

So, since selling my gaming system, I got thinking, do I really need to be restricted to Windows anymore. Nope. So made the move to Linux Mint, and so far, all good. Even got some games running using Wine/Proton – found using Proton 9.04 seems to be the best so far. Will probably be some […]

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New addition to the family

For 12 years, we had a fantastic member of our family, Jackson (aka Jax), a black lab. Could not have asked for a better dog. Earlier this year we had to say goodbye to him, as age caught up with him physically, mentally he was still a puppy. This week, we took on another lab, […]

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