Games. Retro. Cars. Geek.
I like the stuff I grew up with in the 80’s. But I didn’t keep any of it. At the time, it didn’t really hold a real emotional attachment to me, and I was a kid. But now I wish I had kept a lot of the things I gave away as I got older. […]
September has only started, and I’ve already geeked out a fair bit… Storage upgrade – Found I had a spare NVME 256GB drive kicking around, looked at what I had in my desktop and found the installed drive was only a SATA SSD M2. So…. out went the M2 and in went the NVME… and […]
One thing you find a lot of Tapo camera owners asking, is if they can access the cameras from another device other than the Tapo app on iPhone/Android. A lot of search results say “YES” – when 90% of the time the answer is actually “NO”. So for the yes answer : And thats about […]
So AI is doing anything and everything these days. I use it myself for some work tasks. But for some reason, there is a group of people who lose their shit because someone has used AI to create some advertising. I do not have a problem with AI being used for advertising as long as […]
So I run Plex, and have done for a number of years now, and never had any issues until earlier this year. External users did not experience this to my knowledge, only users on my LAN. Start watching something (9/10 it’ll be a TV show), and then part way through you stop it for some […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
