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In the era where Australia was being explored, there was an explorer named Hamilton Hume or Hamy as his friends liked to call him. Hamy wasn't only an explorer, he was an avid collector of potholes. Large potholes, small potholes. Potholes that will just inconvenience you up to potholes that will bu...

Two posts in a day? Post number two mere hours after this one?

Well, I posted about the fast Internet and then realised I failed to mention a critical other topic - is it secure?

Turns out no - no it's not secure. And this isn't necessarily the nightmare you may imagine however Android and iOS...

I'm currently sitting at the dining room table of a cabin. The cabin is in a camp site. The camp site is a Big4 in the Gold Coast.

It's not exactly the sticks, but it's not exactly a high density urban environment either.

We're in the Gold Coast because my daughter has a sporting competition tha...

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...

A little over 12 months ago, I posted an opinion piece on travel routers. This is just an update, so for context I recommend clicking this link for a quick read.

Since then my travel router has continued to follow me everywhere. In June 2023 it followed me to the US and back, in December 2023 it came to Beechworth where (tethered to my phone) it provided the family with Internet and directly after that it came with us to Bright where it was used to log into the local caravan park's wifi and (again) distribute Internet to the family. In between all of this it has done the Melbourne to Sydney dash countless times.

Yep. The title says it all.... Action Cameras, for kids. This of course runs contrary to one of my previous posts on my other site, Hike with Kids, in that post I talk about how digital cameras for kids deliver poor potato quality output and that a cheap phone (with camera built in) would be a better option. And yes, I still stand by that statement. And yes, the camera I'm about to talk about DOES deliver some really horrible potato quality photos and video. Yet with all of the above, I'm beyond impressed by this product and its versatility, so much so I went out and purchased the "grown up" version of it.

Let's dive in (as you'll discover, pun intended).

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...