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Rebooting Spot X

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Over the last few weeks I’ve been messing about with options for getting Spot X running again. My focus has been trying to use a Raspberry Pi Pico as the controller but this has been a tedious process. Principally it comes down to 2 things: Voltage and Tooling. First the […]

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Marmalade 2

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I tried making marmalade again. Mum gave me a bag of lemons, even though I already had a pile, so I decided to have another go. I’d already been to the shops to buy some jars, so that was sorted. This time I bought a bag of white sugar and […]

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Garden Company

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I had some company in the garden today, and not the usual suspect. I was working down near the well, cleaning up the area because it was a lot of a mess. I had trimmed back the wattles and mown around them and was cleaning out all the grass after […]

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Marmalade

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On Thursday I had to do some work on the lemon tree at work and ended up with a bucket and a half of lemons. So I thought I would make marmalade. I didn’t realise how few lemons you needed. But that’s okay. I will think of something else. The […]

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Transferring the Games

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I now had to get the Steam library from Windows to Linux. As I mentioned, there is a simple way. I could have transferred the game files to the large storage drive in CSIRAC where I already had Fallout 76 and um, Bioshock Infinite?? Anyway I could have done that […]

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Linux Gaming

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This was the area of migrating to Linux I was really not sure about. Spoiler: It’s fine – with caveats. I’d already tried Linux gaming on this computer in the bedroom and had reasonable results, given the age and capacity of the hardware. Even so, trying to run the oldest […]

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Windows is Gone

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Well it was a fun ride, I guess, but I just deleted my last Windows installation. Okay, that’s not true. I still have a laptop from 200? running Windows 2000 and I have Windows 7 and 10 VMs, but actual Windows installations in computers I actually use. No. Microsoft’s decision […]

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Okay, Here We Go

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So , here’s the thing. I’ve already mentioned that this site is sitting here not being used. But here’s the other thing. I’ve got another WordPress blog that I use to journal with on my (Mum’s) home server. Sure it’s fun writing up posts to tell yourself about what you’ve […]