A while back, Scancom was selling pre-paid, data-only, bundles on the Three network, offering 25GB of data per month, every month until February 2027, for a one-off payment of just £25.| neilzone.co.uk
As I’ve said, ad nauseum probably, I like my secondhand ThinkPads.| neilzone.co.uk
wallabag is a web application allowing you to save web pages for later reading.| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr: I set up fleamarket.neilzone.co.uk using flohmarkt. Over the years, I appear to have acquired quite a lot of tech-related stuff.| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve upgraded my desktop environment to GNOME 47. I haven’t spotted anything obviously different about it yet.| neilzone.co.uk
I thought it would be interesting to jot down some of the reasons why I’m still so positive about computers and the Internet in 2024.| neilzone.co.uk
I have run my own mail server for years now.| neilzone.co.uk
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
I’ve been testing LiberaForms for a few weeks, and now seems as good a time as any to write up my thoughts.| 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 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
I like giving talks, lectures, and presentations. I very much enjoy talking at in-person events, and I’m much less of a fan of talking to a blank screen of muted attendees without their cameras on.| neilzone.co.uk
A friend and I had a small competition: what is the best laptop we could get for no more than £50?| neilzone.co.uk