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Adam While my D70 did a great job for me for 20 years it recently became time for a new camera and after a lot of digging around I picked up a Nikon Z50 II to replace it. I was considering something in the Nikon DSLR range rather than the mirrorless cameras but after looking at … Read more
So it’s time again to reload the operating system on my gaming machine, and the question that I had to answer was what operating system I was going to run this time around. The options are to stick with Windows 11, or move over to some flavour of Linux for my operating system. This specific … Read more
So someone in the extended family is looking at getting a new PC, and normally I’m all in to helping with that. I enjoy browsing parts, looking for deals, and otherwise just sniffing around and seeing what I can find. However the situation with RAM and Storage just has me shaking my head. I bought … Read more
I came across a video about a neat looking project today; https://pegaprox.com I run a pile of Proxmox clusters at work and home for various reasons and while they work well and the IU is functional I still have eight different clusters that I’m logging into to manage devices on. Yes, I know we could … Read more
Ok in my post on the whole situation with routers in the US I mentioned something about supply chain attacks and as someone who works in the software world those things are absolutely terrifying and I think that it deserves a bit of a deeper dive. So, for people that work in software, probably going … Read more
So a couple of days ago the FCC updated a list of banned telecomunications equipment to include, and I’m quoting here; Routers produced in a foreign country, except routers which have been granted a Conditional Approval by DoW or DHS. If you want to read it’s all linked on the FCC site linked here. Now, … Read more
One of the things that I have spent some time playing with is storage solutions for deployment at home. My primary use for a storage server is to store backups from my other systems, media for streaming in my house, and a general dumping ground for files that need to move around machine to machine. … Read more
The last several years the news has all been about AI and how it’s going to completely transform the world. And over the last couple of years I have had a really hard to pin down feeling of foreboding about all these advancements that have come out using these new tools. Recently I came across … Read more
So, now that the MacBook Neo is starting to get into peoples hands and they are starting to tear into the thing there are a coupe of interesting things about this device that are starting to make me think that it might be something that I would be interested in putting my hands on. The … Read more
In around 2004 I finally got around to looking into and purchasing a updated camera to replace my film camera. I had been looking into digital cameras for years at that point and while they were neat they where either too expensive or didn’t take good enough photos to make it worth looking at using … Read more