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As December came to a close last year, I walked away from a corporate job I had poured my energy into for the last several years. My responsibilities wrapped up at the end of December and by the end of January I had officially finished. It's not a trivial change, and as I write this I’m still proces...

Time and again my wife has heard me explain that I'm an aspirational gamer. I aspire to have the free time for it - just a little bit of pure me time, but there's always too much going on.

I'm not going to pretend I'm life's victim however, both my wife and I are on an almost never ending sprint...

A few months back I posted my musings on how much AMD technology exists in my house. Since then I've recieved my Framework 16 and upgraded the kids PCs, giving my wife's PC a slight spec bump along the way.

• My Wife's PC was upgraded from an AMD 5600X to an AMD 5700X
• With my wife's "old" CPU...

I've written previously about my Framework 16 laptop and the STM Dux laptop bag that I purchased for it. They're a potent combination. My Framework 16 will come with me most places as a device to consolidate drone footage, video, etc.. The Framework 16's dGPU makes light work of encoding video w...

Uncloud yourself

As I sit here putting thoughts to keyboard to write this post, I can't help but marvel at the number of portable USB SSDs that are just sitting on my desk. There was a period of time where I was absolutely certain that the days of USB storage where entering their twilight, that it...

On the 15th of September 2023, I threw caution to the wind. I put my money down for two pre-orders. One was the AMD variant of the Framework 13 laptop, which I've spoken about before. The other was the Framework 16.

While the Framework 13 was something of a safe bet - Framework had released 3 ge...

The night after I posted my last article, I was brushing my teeth on the way to bed and thinking about what I'd written. I was thinking about the recent transitions of hardware in my home and came to realise there has been something of a revolution. From a landscape that was entirely dominated by...

Framework Laptop. Kids. Looking after your belongings.

A number of mental threads came together and bam! We have an idea for a post. So join me and let's go for a quick trip down memory lane.

The year is 2003. I'm in my second year at university. I've been working part time at OfficeWorks and a...