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
Inside Radarr/Sonarr jails: Inside emby jail: pw groupadd -n media -g 8675309pw usermod emby -G media
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
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
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
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
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
I’ve had a gmail account since 2007, when I got an invite from someone I met at a university Open day. At the time it was the bee’s knees, dog’s bollocks and cat’s….elbows?It was hard to get into, it had way more storage than anything else, and it was fresh,… Continue reading
Background A couple of years ago I mucked around with something called PCI-E passthrough. The idea is to let a Virtual Machine (VM) use an physical GPU. This lets me, who almost exclusively run Linux, run some Windows only games in a Windows VM. I think I was first exposed… Continue reading
This post was written before FreeNAS Corral got memory-holed. I’ve not decided on my course of action yet. I like running my services in Docker far more than I ever liked JAILS and the LinuxVM, so going backwards is not really an option. I recently upgraded my FreeNAS 9.3… Continue reading