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Adventures in Home Networking Part III: The Final Rackening

Last month, when I was writing a pair of posts that basically boiled down to “I bought a bunch of Ubiquiti network gear for questionably-justifiable reasons and had a few headaches making it all work”, I thought about putting in … Continue reading →

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In which, I play a Kirby game.

Thanks to the power of the dollar/yen exchange rate, I’ve been experimenting with a bunch of different long-running Nintendo franchises, and everyone’s favorite pink Devourer of Worlds is the latest. No, I’ve never played a Kirby game before.  Well, technically … Continue reading →

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It was round ’bout that time that those old Duke boys decided to teach Boss Hogg a thing or two about dual booting.

For a site with the tagline “A blog, mostly about video games…” I sure have not been writing many articles about video games.  I’ll work on that!  I just played a Kirby game for the first time, and I have … Continue reading →

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Life is educational, and the tuition rates are starting to get to me.

Before I start my rant of the day, I need to do something slightly responsible: If you have come here because you have lost your Yamaha XMAX key fob and are currently stranded or just trying to figure out how … Continue reading →

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I am officially human.

To be clear, I’m not especially opposed to the use of LLMs.  I’ve definitely started leaning on them pretty heavily to help me with scripting tasks and for questions like “In the latest version of macOS, where exactly DID Apple … Continue reading →

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45 rpm in a 33 world.

I should probably workshop my article titles a bit before I decide on them. Like, I know that collecting records is a thing now – at least, whenever I go into a Barnes and Noble I am stunned by the … Continue reading →

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2026 Wasn’t the year of the Linux Desktop for me, and it was a good thing.

That may be the single most clickbait title I’ve ever written.  Before you get out the pitchforks and torches, it’s only a good thing because it let me avoid a supply-chain attack that could have made for a very bad … Continue reading →

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Proof that I really don’t look at my stats page much.

About a week ago, I made a post in which I mentioned that while traffic to this blog was fairly low, at least it was consistently about a hundred people every day which I felt was pretty good for a … Continue reading →

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It’s the end of October. I should play a spooky game.

If we look back to last October, I decided that it was seasonally appropriate to make a serious attempt at coming to terms with the Resident Evil series, as it’s one of those long-running series that I’ve never managed to … Continue reading →

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I assure you, this was of critical importance.

I’m about six months shy of twenty years of posting stuff here, and about a hundred people – or, more likely, random web crawlers – stumble across one or another of my posts every day.  That’s not exactly huge, but … Continue reading →

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