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...

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...

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...

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...

So much for being able to post here multiple times a week...I haven't gone anywhere, and whilst work has been busy, I technically did have a bit of time I could have posted something. Yet, I was either too tired or not in the mindset to write. Annoyingly, when I was in the mindset to write then I was too busy or...

Tron Legacy might not be the most well received of films. The legacy (pun intended) of Tron has been one that has never quite lived up to expectations, especially at the box office as is currently the case with Tron Ares. Whilst I am yet to see Ares - haven't had the time - I am hoping to either today or in the coming...

This is the second post of this series, and yes, once again it's about earbuds from EarFun. For those not in the know, these are earclips, which instead of fitting inside the ear the speaker part sits outside of the ear canal resting just outside. The battery and receiver part of the buds sit the other side of your ear...

For the first time in well over a decade a Windows device of mine almost succumbed to a virus. I've only recently upgraded to a new laptop and with it transitioning from Windows 10 to Windows 11. But, this near miss was not due to any error on my side. I didn't click on anything I shouldn't, or from a dodgy download....

This is the first of what will be an irregular series. Not so much reviews, rather just highlighting bits of tech that I like and enjoy using.For the first entry and what actually contributed to me coming up with this series is the EarFun Air Pro 4. I had heard about EarFun as a company in various random tech YouTube...

For years I've had the domain jsweeting.me which has always been a basic website that contains general professional facing information about myself, rather than relying solely on an existing template from a service that could cease to exist any day. The webpage itself has taken a couple of different forms. Initially a...

This morning I read that Microsoft had started to open up "voluntary" age verification for Xbox for using social features. It's "voluntary" only for the time being as they are intending to make it compulsory at the start of the year for those in the UK. What's also interesting is that they said they would be using it to...

Now that I have a new laptop with a processor from this decade (yes my previous one was that old) I wanted to put this new one through its paces and test its gaming chops.I wasn't going crazy and trying out some recent AAA game, in part because I don't have one linked to my Steam account and I can't be bothered to...

As part of its misguided "Online safety act" in the UK the Government is now forcing internet based services to add additional changes in order to verify a user is who they say they are. In practice though, this is so far just to verify age. The first notable victim is Bluesky which is now asking UK users to use an...