Category: Tech
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Death Stranding (2) and Dead Hard Drives
Even more strandier? Even more beachier? The expansion of the chiral network brought a whole load of quality of life improvements. Death Stranding 2: First Impressions I’ll admit I dismissed Death Stranding unfairly the first time I played it. After a few awkward and uncomfortable journeys heaped on an incomprehensible plot, I drifted away from…
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Weird Al (Both Kinds)
I’ve only gone and done it. The thing I was sucessfully avoided so far. Let’s talk about Weird Al. and AI. (This post contains AI-generated images, but trust me, they’re quite funny) Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Tremendously weird and funny, Weird: The Al Yankovic story is a pseudo-biopic loosely inspired by Weird Al’s life…
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On the Edit
Shelving the Desktop? Due to an “internal technical issue”, my Alienware desktop order was cancelled. I had planned on re-ordering it but was reliably informed by my Intel-insider that the 15th generation of Intel CPUs was due to launch within the next month so it might be worth holding off. So that’s exactly what I…
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Behind the Scenes of Newforge Studios’ 2024 Halloween Film (Kind of)
Yes, it’s that time of year again as we creep ever closer to the Spooky Season! And like most other years (barring 2019), there will be a Newforge Studios Halloween film. We shot on location at the Walkhampton Inn last sunday which, whilst a great location, brought a raft of other challenges. Working between guests…
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The Lazarus Monitor
You might be able to get a hint from the title… A brief disclaimer. Don’t do stupid things with electronics and electrical items unless you understand how they work. Don’t discharge capacitors with a screwdriver. If in doubt, leave things unplugged, depress the power button, and leave for hours to days (depending on the item)…
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Jurassic in the Park, and Jury-Rigging Monitors
We had an ambitious plan for the late May bank holiday. To keep a three year old up to midnight watching Jurassic Park in an open air screening at the Eden Project. Madness, you might say. You’d be right…mostly. Jurassic in the Park? The evening started with a two course dinner in the Mediterranean biome.…
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Reach for the (Pole)stars
It’s time to fire up the motors! Typical of any life event in England, it started with a rainy day. I patiently awaited a call about the delivery of my Polestar 2, hoping that it wouldn’t be cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. I had driven over an hour back to Plymouth the night before to…
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A Capacitor in Time Saves Nine?
The dramatic conclusion to our sewing machine epic is finally here. Will it work? Read on and find out for yourself. I like to fix things. We’ve covered this multiple times before. If I can stop something going to landfill unnecessarily, I’m always up for taking something apart and tinkering. Sometimes it’s an easy fix…
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Workshops and Hedgehogs
DIY, ice cream, and more! Advanced Workshop Repair It’s not terribly advanced in reality, but more cobbled together from a variety of bits of wood laying around. There was a removable top over the sink in the workshop when we bought the house. It was fine for a temporary measure, but not that secure when…
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Heat Pump, Take Three (Part Two)
And it’s in. Time for the ever after… We’ve had our Daikin Altherma air source heat pump in for about a week now, and so far it seems to be functional. We haven’t had much of a chance to test it given that we are in the middle of summer and the room temperature barely…
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