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...

This week there have been a couple of things that have received meaningful updates even though I first got them a few years ago. The first to mention is the game Rocket League. Sure, this is essentially a live service game after Epic Games purchased the developer Psyonix and turned the game free-to-play, but...

I’ve seen many bloggers praise the writing app iA Writer. Initially I didn’t quite see the point of it. Do I need another writing app? After all, both blog services I use have very good text editors, plus I often use Obsidian as a means of not only getting good markdown support but also as a means of having another copy...

This week the 3.0 update and the paid optional Switch 2 upgrade (4K and mouse controls) came out for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Aside from briefly playing it again before Christmas to check that my save file did actually copy over from my Switch 1, it had been around 2-3 years since I last properly played it. My...

Alongside not blogging as much as I would like, I've also been neglecting my RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. I've got my Inoreader account set up pretty well so that I can easily get an overview of videogame and tech websites, in addition to various blogs that I follow. When I got back into blogging late 2024 I...