Earlier this week I wrote about the newly announced under-16 social media ban for the UK. The post has so far been one of my most read on this blog so far (spotlight helps). This is unsurprisingly a hot topic, but has also got me thinking about my relationship with technology and the web around that age. Especially...

Today the UK Government announced an "under-16 social media ban". Whilst I have previously complained about the Online Safety Act, largely due to its poor implementation, I'm not inherently against the idea of a social media "ban" for those under 16. Before you call me a hypocrite, the difference is that the big social...

A couple of months ago I wrote about how I was considering moving from Bazzite to Cachy OS. I had yet to make the move in large part because Bazzite on my decade old Dell XPS 15 was working very well and was doing what I needed it to do. It's great as a companion machine for marking student work and general admin when...

The rumours were true, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake is a thing. Now, Nintendo absolutely despises leaks, and judging by the "footage" Nintendo showed today I wouldn't be surprised if the announcement (confirmation) today was Nintendo's hand being forced far sooner than it would have otherwise. Whilst...

Yes, it's another post on AI. Whilst, I don't write too many posts on it myself (I wrote around 7,000 words on it for a journal instead) you've probably come across countless posts on it elsewhere. I was planning to write something about it following the announcement that the Steam Deck was going up by around £200! What...

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...