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The year is 2011. My wife and I have been living together for 2 years and she has generously allowed me to turn the back storage room of our then house into a home lab. The back room was a dodgy extension built after the house. I painstakingly ran network cable to the outer wall of the extension a...

Build Your Own Device

This isn't a full review of the Framework 13. There are plenty of those out there. Rather this is a story telling of my experience.

I started sketching out this post back in December 2023. I was part of the Framework 13 AMD pre-order and I finally had my laptop in my hands...

Google Photos has to be up there as one of the handiest and most useful products that Google has released. Up there with Maps and Gmail.

I remember the mind blowing experience of being able to search by faces or type "blue car" into a search window to find a photo of my old car.

Going back to th...

Not a Nintendo. Not a Switch. Not a SteamDeck.

It's something else.

Back in February 2022 Valve released the SteamDeck. A device that took PC gaming and made it accessible to the handheld crowd. Prior to this, the standard approach to getting PC gaming handheld was streaming typically on a mobil...

In my previous post on setting up a Minecraft birthday party for my daughter, it probably became apparent that I have managed to build two gaming PCs for my kids. No I didn't just spend insane amounts in the current climate. I managed to build super-budget rigs by salvaging some HP small form fact...

As I start writing this it's 6:27PM on Sunday the 22nd of August 2021. Melbourne has now passed 200 days in lockdown. Unfortunately for my family, the timing of these lockdowns means my daughter has just spent her second birthday in a row in lockdown. Happy 8th birthday munchkin! Only a few hour...