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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 →

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 →

Ditching gmail

By Iain | October 26, 2018 - 10:41 am |October 26, 2018 Uncategorized
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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 →

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