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Books I’ve read this year: 2021

By Iain | January 1, 2022 - 3:08 pm |December 6, 2021 Uncategorized
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Title Author Date Finished Reread? With the Old Breed E.B. Sledge 12/2/2021 N Sea Of Rust C. Robert Cargill 14/1/2021 N Crossing The Line Alvin Kernan 14/02/2021 N Snow Crash Neal Stephenson 14/02/2021 Y The Thin Red Line James Jones 22/02/2021 N A Song For the Dark Times Ian Rankin… Continue reading →

Freenas Squeezeboxserver

By Iain | February 8, 2021 - 12:08 pm |February 12, 2021 Uncategorized
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Getting podcasts working: Installed ffmpeg in the jail Edit “/usr/local/share/logitechmediaserver/custom-convert.conf” alc mp3 * * # FB:{BITRATE=-B %B}D:{RESAMPLE=–resample %D} [alac] $FILE$ | [lame] –silent -q $QUALITY$ $RESAMPLE$ -v $BITRATE$ – – alc pcm * * # F [alac] -r $FILE$ alc flc * * # F [alac] $FILE$ | [flac] -cs… Continue reading →

Books I’ve read this year: 2020

By Iain | December 31, 2020 - 7:29 am |January 21, 2021 Uncategorized
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Chernobyl Horus Heresy book 1 Horus Heresy book 2 Horus Heresy book 3 Horus Heresy book 4 Horus Heresy book 5 Horus Heresy book 6 Horus Heresy book 7 Gaunt’s Ghosts Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima Night Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko Day Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko Twilight Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko… Continue reading →

Google Photos Takeout

By Iain | November 24, 2020 - 10:25 am |November 24, 2020 Uncategorized
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Recently my wife found that she was nearly at capacity of the free storage on Google Photos. We decided that we’d replace it with the Nextcloud instance I run, so photos she takes are now being uploaded to Nextcloud and then transferred to our NAS. We wanted the existing photos… Continue reading →

FreeNAS jails

By Iain | October 27, 2020 - 10:44 am |November 16, 2020 Uncategorized
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Inside Radarr/Sonarr jails: Inside emby jail: pw groupadd -n media -g 8675309pw usermod emby -G media

Epic Games Launcher frustrations

By Iain | October 17, 2020 - 9:28 am |October 17, 2020 Uncategorized
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I have never spent any money in the epic games store, but I have picked up a couple of things for free. One of the freebies was Kingdom Come: Deliverance, which I finally got around to wanting to play. On logging in to the Epic Games client I am greeted… Continue reading →

HDMI Audio Drop outs on AMD 5700XT – THE RETURN

By Iain | September 17, 2020 - 1:18 pm |September 17, 2020 Uncategorized
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The previous post on this topic assumed, falsely, that the problem was only in Linux. NOT SO. I get the same issue in Windows 10 as well. But importantly I ONLY get the issue with my LG TV, using HDMI audio. Using my monitor, with headphones plugged into the monitor,… Continue reading →

HDMI Audio Drop outs on AMD 5700XT linux investigation

By Iain | February 25, 2020 - 12:15 pm |February 26, 2020 Linux
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My new 5700XT card is only supported in newer linux kernels, so I am using 5.4.0-14-generic. Using this card plugged into my TV has been causing a lot of audio problems. The HDMI sound cuts out, frequently, for a few seconds at a time. Watching a youtube video seems ok,… Continue reading →

Books I’ve read this year – 2019

By Iain | December 31, 2019 - 11:25 am |December 26, 2019 Uncategorized
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The winner stands alone The Diamond Age Chronicles of wasted time part 1 Better Angels of our Nature Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Snow Crash Starfish Peter Watts Maelstrom Peter Watts Behemoth Peter Watts The book of dust part 1 part 2 Homo deus C j sansom Dissolution… Continue reading →

Ditching Android: History

By Iain | June 26, 2019 - 7:36 am |September 6, 2019 Uncategorized
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My friends and family know I’m on a bit of a crusade. Or maybe they would say I’m over-principled. I’ve felt a creeping sense of dread for a very long time about Facebook, and Google, but it started to crystalise when the Snowden leaks happened. A lot of techies already… Continue reading →

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