tl;dr A Linux installation on a USB stick, onto which I can copy my presentation slides, so that I can boot my laptop from that USB stick when I come to give a presentation, thereby leaving my actual drive (and thus my documents, email etc) encrypted.| neilzone.co.uk
I had a play around today with a GoPro on a small tripod, to take a series of photos of Lego I was moving around, to experiment with stop motion animation.| neilzone.co.uk
I use Jellyfin for media streaming, and also an arrangement based around mpd and ncmpcpp for my office.| neilzone.co.uk
This morning, I wondered “Could I cope with a terminal-only computer?| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr: for a lot of things, yes, but not everything| neilzone.co.uk
I might be a bit late to the party here, but I stumbled across WinTile-Beyond recently, and it is rather useful.| neilzone.co.uk
Sometimes, less is more. For me, that’s especially the case when I want to avoid distractions.| neilzone.co.uk
I use freeradius to control access to our Wi-Fi. It’s probably overkill, but I find it a useful way of doing VLAN steering while broadcasting just one SSID.| neilzone.co.uk
I saw a useful toot in the fediverse: Who knew that it’s possible to boot straight into UEFI setup by just running “systemctl reboot –firmware-setup”?| neilzone.co.uk
A backup is only of use if it is tested, or something like that.| neilzone.co.uk
Here’s an annoying one. I went to upgrade my machine’s kernel, as I’ve done numerous times before, but got an error message that there was not enough space in /boot.| neilzone.co.uk
About six months ago, I bought a pair of the Xreal Air 2 Pro “wearable display” glasses.| neilzone.co.uk
I am a fan of RSS. It makes me smile when I read of RSS making a come-back as, for me at least, it never went anywhere.| neilzone.co.uk
I have an Intel NUC in my office, using mpd, to play music on some speakers.| neilzone.co.uk
I am using mpd, running on an Intel NUC, connected to some old speakers, for playing music in my office, controlled by ncmpcpp on my laptop, or an app on my phone.| neilzone.co.uk
For a while now, I have been unable to upload video files to Mastodon.| neilzone.co.uk