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...

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...

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...

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....