This week two new films were released that followed on from two different established streaming TV shows. Although only one of these made its way to the cinema. The films I'm talking about are Jack Ryan: Ghost War (Amazon Prime) and Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu (Disney). These are both very different franchises not...

The past couple of days I've been solving various things across devices, services, and operating systems. I spent a big chunk of yesterday evening finally fixing the HDR issue I had playing The Witcher 3 on Steam Deck via Heroic Launcher (that I got for free on GOG). The fix was very simple and it was one I was aware...

It's finally here, the plugin to enable me to post directly from Obsidian, which is now where I do most of my blog writing. As well as a lot of my research notes too. This is to see how well I get on with it. Is it easier to post directly from here, or do I prefer to just copy and paste the text from Obsidian into...

As I mentioned in my previous post I actually had nothing scheduled during the Bank Holiday Weekend. what made this one particularly good was that it also coincided with the made up holiday of May 4th, aka May the Fourth Be With You. In other words, an excuse to immerse oneself in Star Wars content over 4 days. Not only...

Finally, the Bank Holiday Weekend! I know that the Easter break wasn't that long ago, but I very much did not have a break then. Haven't had a proper break for a long time. Either had things that scheduled to do, or something has come up that needed my immediate attention. Over the past 12 months this has ranged from...

On my old Dell XPS I've currently got Bazzite running on it. This has been running pretty well, especially considering it is now almost a decade old. However, even though it does have a dedicated mobile graphics card it is unsurprisingly old and therefore not really up to gaming, even particularly older stuff. So I...

Because I will soon be part of discussions at my work place regarding policies around AI use I have been trying to use it more to see where there "might" be benefits. So far, the only positive is that it's helped me put together a film "recipe" for my Fuji camera as well as assist in dialling in the settings for a new...

Trying out the Daily Note feature for the first time. It's something I have considered for a while, even if at first when I first came across it when I started using Obsidian I didn't quite understand why it was there. I'm still not certain how exactly I will be using it, but for now I'm going to be testing it out and...

It's been almost a month again since I last posted to this blog. Whilst I have been busy, upon reflection it's not that I haven't had the time to blog. I just changed the title of this post to better reflect that. There have been many instances where I could have put something together for this blog. But I didn't. This...

For just over a year I've been using Obsidian. I used to use Notion for some of my personal/research note taking, but increasingly found it clunky (especially once the word count creeps up) and also wasn't keen on AI being increasingly crammed in. I had tried Obsidian in the past after a former colleague...

Before Christmas I noticed that the folder in my RSS reader for other people's blogs was getting a bit stale. There were one or two people who were still posting pretty regularly (although ironically the ones I was also least interested in) but ones I liked reading the most had practically disappeared (one unfortunately...

Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition was the first Dragon Quest game I ever played and it was only because of the very generous demo that Square-Enix released for the Switch that prompted me to give it a go. I ended up receiving the game for Christmas later that year and did get another 15...

When Google started to release products in which you could cast video and audio via your phone, this seemed to me (and many others at the time) as a far better alternative to Bluetooth. Bluetooth speakers were around and so too were Bluetooth headphones, but in the early to mid 2010s (basically pre AirPods - as much as...

I came across this video on YouTube titled "You NEED To Stop Playing Games Efficiently". It kept appearing in my suggestions (which thankfully are actually quite useful) and as it wasn't particularly long I decided to give it a watch. Yeah, this guy isn't wrong. I do recommend you watch the video itself, but the gist is...

Linux is almost ready for prime time Increasingly during 2025 my aim was to try and move further away from relying on the established big tech for my day to day computer use. Quite quickly I was able to achieve this for key parts of my web use. Google was the biggest victim of this, in part because years ago I shifted a...