"We're going to migrate to cloudflare" are not words you expect to read today.

Still pondering building a micro cluster to learn on. But pricing on used hardware is rocketing, primarily even RAM. £100 for 48GB (3x16GB) even with slow sticks.

My Pixel 7A was unfortunately falling apart slightly, whilst I had glued the back on a couple of times it doesn't seem to last. I decided to pick up a Pixel 9A as a small upgrade. Honestly it's a rather odd feeling in the hand, it partly feels worse than the 7A as it's design is very iPhone […]

It's not until your home automation server goes down that you realize how much runs through it and that you'd be buggered. Maybe I need to work on a backup system.

Bugger, I didn't set my home server to reboot after AC Loss apparently. Even worse I can't seem to find the mac address for it to try wake on lan. We've just had a short power cut but it's too late to go and reboot it in the garage. Guess I need to improve that.

I kinda want to build a mini computer cluster like I've seen a fair few start to do recently. I have some of the parts to do it. But I just don't know what I'd do with it. Plus despite having some parts I think I'd need to spend another £250 or so for the rest.

Eva England launched an Interactive Map to view EV Stats per Constituency. To my not surprise where I live is in the bottom 50 in the UK. But because of that the charger to car ratio is currently high. Best viewed on desktop - https://evadashboard.acceleratedinsightplatform.com/ Press release […]

I thought the whole people just thinking Android = Samsung was a very American thing (e.g Apple vs Samsung). But then I checked my Apps stats today. In the top 50 phones used, only 2 are not samsung. Overall for my app, 55% is Apple, 34% Samsung, the rest is others.

I guess it shouldn't surprise me, but the FLIRC adapter being configured for arrow keys etc means it also works for the steamdeck UI. I wonder if the Steam Machine will have an IR Receiver built in?

My Doggo's advent calendar this year is Pigs In Blankets flavor treats. I'm jealous and want a Pigs In Blanket Calendar myself.

I picked up a FLIRC usb adapter to use my TVs remote to control Plex on my computer. A quick snippet of it in action. Only slight quirk is that it takes a second for my remote to wake up for the first keypress.

Interestingly saw Canola oil mentioned rather than Rapeseed Oil on a british product. More americanisms?

Having to deal with some legal stuff. Lawyer: I need you to answer all of these questions. Me: I'm usually pretty good with legal jargon, but this is outside of my relm of understanding. Lawyer: I've re-worded them a fraction and put them in italics. Can you answer now? *How the fuck does […]

Added the FireTV Stick to my current Plex / Streaming Stick test / comparison spreadsheet. Wondering if I should put this in a different format, possibly have a standardized set of files. #plex #selfhosting #streaming #roku #firetv

So because I was having issues with my Roku supporting Dolby Atmos / Vision I picked up a cheap firestick to compare. Good news the Firestick works perfectly with both. Bad news DTS HD doesn't.

Not sure if it's a coincidence or possibly a technological difference. Whilst archiving my Bluray collection I notice my reader can read older released Blurays faster than newer ones. As much as double the speed.

I think everyone expected Qualcomm to bugger up Arduino. But I don't think most would have expected in just over a month. #qualcomm #arduino

Hmm, my little NAS setup is experiencing an issue. I have two spinning drives in the system which are dual 10TB drives in RAID1. However recently when I go to move data onto them in bulk the transfer speed can barely sustain around 20MB/s and causes IO issues. Am I forgetting how bad Spinning […]

One thing as a developer that I could do with sometimes is that ideally I would like it so I can have my app show notifications to users with Android Auto / Carplay. My user base is delivery drivers, so showing a notification to say there's an update to their delivery isn't un resonable. But […]

Finally decided on my new settings when archiving. So bought all the blurays in from storage. Just a couple!

So after the pain of where some media wasn't playing correctly on my plex clients. I've made a little table as to what codecs play without transcoding. Not sure which I'm most disappointed in. The Hisense TV for not seeming to even support HEVC despite it […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Me: I'll switch to Firefox as it's not as bad as chrome is lately. Firefox: Hello, we're adding more AI into it. Please take the AI.

I've just had a customer complain that they're not paying us more. Can this week just be over already?

Currently non stop with work which I'm struggling with, but slowly getting there. But the thing that's annoyed me most today? I go to try and post a parcel, the shop scans my QR code. Marks that I've dropped it off. And then can't take it because the label printer failed to print. They […]

As I'm having some quirks with plex I thought I'd take a look at Jellyfin again. First hurdle already, doesn't look like there's an easy method to re-map live TV channels. (e.g swap BBC One HD to channel 1 rather than 101)

Still trying to fix my Plex / Roku issues. I'm at the stage of trying to create custom profiles now.

I was renewing an #insurance policy this morning and they said they no longer accept @protonprivacy emails addresses because 'they are associated with fraud'. WTAF? They used my #protonmail address happily for 3 years. Where has this change come from? Is this #bigtech selling #cybersec products […]

Well switching my WiFi points from UniFi to TP Link hasn't made it better. If anything it's now possibly slightly worse.

Also in my quest to tweak my DVD / Bluray collection. Is it worth keeping the cases, it takes a *lot* of room up. Where as I can get a binder that stores 400 odd for £30.

Pondering about swapping some of my Blu Rays with the 4K Versions. Not sure if it's worth it so maybe just a select few movies. The difference between DVD and BluRay is noticeable but when I tried with the one 4K disc I have I didn't really notice a difference.

Well I've completed the switch from my Unifi APs to the new TP Links I got. So far, so good... A slight speed improvement but also seems to be more stable.

Within the last few weeks we've been making changes so we can ditch Sky TV. *Checks the news* Crap, we watch ITV.

Me to amazon: My parcel that was due today says it's not even left the depot still. Amazon rep: Please be assured it will definitely be with you today. Me: I very much doubt that. Amazon: It definitely will, if not you will get £20 compensation. ----- I'm looking forward to £20.

DIY ambilight V2. New strip of LEDs, slightly brighter I think too. Around the edge of the TV rather than the middle section.

Whilst I understand / expect for more taxes on EVs, I didn't quite expect more this early on. IRC The latest stats they were up to 25% of new sales, but currently only around 5% of all vehicles are. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mxgzpj1dvo

Finally bit the bullet and ordered 3 new WiFi Points. Lets try Omada / TP Link and see if it's better than Unifi.

Unifi what is this garbage. I can scan for interference and it says for 5Ghz 80Mhz the suggested bands are 42, 58, 106, 122, 138 and 155. Yet none of these are actual select able bands for me to put my APs on?

Apparently for optimal wifi I need a dedicated access point in the loo.

Just as I think I've sorted my wifi issues they crop up again. I think I'm at the stage of throwing the Unifi kit out and getting a different brand now.

I had a new laptop arrive yesterday, I'm not sure if it's because of the distro I'm using or the laptop but Linux has certainly been quirky on it. Manjaro still defaults to X11, but it's got a really unusual bug where I'll be typing something and the screen just doesn't update. The moment I […]

Oh joy, Protonmail is down this morning.

I need to re-do the LED strip around my TV that I use as a DIY Ambilight. Pondering if I should change the LED type that I'm using. Currently using WS2812Bs and pondered about RGBW Instead but it looks like for the RGB Side they could be worse? Possibly the ECO variant as then they draw […]

My 1 month of using Bazzite is getting near it's end. Admittedly I haven't given it a full test, as the game I mostly completed during it is a very low resource requirement point and click game. However I had started to test a few other games and unfortunately they do feel slower. So it's time […]

Just as I think I've sorted out my WiFi issues, they come back but worse. Now I've got it where devices are connecting but getting no network access.

The "Chinese market" Raspberry Pi CM0 has made it to the UK 🥳 . Still seems a strange product, even the URL on the box ( https://raspberrypi.com/products/cm0-dev ) doesn't work 🙄 . #raspberrypi #computemodule #cm0 #raspberrypicm0

Digitalocean did a bloody update to a cron that runs hourly where it now doesn't save the data to a logfile. The joy of this has been 70 servers emailing me every hour now.

AWSs can shit itself but don't worry Amazon can ask me for yet another day in a row if I want to buy more Tea....

Well my first attempt at ordering a laptop has failed. I picked up a Dell Pro 14 but unfortunately it's not quite right for me so it'll be returned. Now I'm on the hunt again, I've got to pretty much decide if I want to try another Dell (the premium sku), something from Lenovo, consider […]

Amazon seems to really want me to buy tea lately. Tuesday: Would you like to buy tea Wednesday: Would you like to buy tea Today: Would you like to buy tea.