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Solving Sudokus with Rust
When I posted my Javascript Sudoku solver earlier this month, I noted that it would be interesting to build a version that was optimized for speed. The original deliberately pauses every 1/100th of a...
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A Tale of Two Celerons
Photo by Ryan on Unsplash A while ago, I bought a Vero 4K+ media player. OSMC is excellent, and I love the Vero, but that’s a different story. This is about the machine it replaced. An older,...
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To my surprise, Ubuntu 22.04 comes with a wallpaper image I created
The wallpaper image that I created for Ubuntu 22.04 Last february, I submitted the image above in the “Jammy Jellyfish 22.04 Wallpaper Competition“. After the competition closed, I received a message...
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I love my Vero 4K+
Earlier this year, when I was isolating because of Covid-19, I bought a second hand Vero 4K+. In terms of hardware, it’s very similar to other media players, but it’s the software that sets it apart....
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Creating a direct connection between your PC and NAS
NAS devices are great for storing large amounts of files, and making them available to other devices on the network. A typical gigabit home network is usually fast enough to conveniently access those...
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Getting a Gaming PC for Lightroom
Photo by Tomasz Bazylinski on StockSnap As is probably evident from this blog, I’m a Linux guy. I’m not fond of Apple, and prefer not to use proprietary software. But I’m also a photographer, who...
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Contributing to the WordPress Photo Directory
Writing Open Source software is bit of a weird proposition. You spend time and effort creating something useful, and when you’re done, you give it away. Literally anyone can then use your code, for...
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Fixing the Medion Erazer Engineer E10
CCO licensed photo by Seth Goldstein from the WordPress Photo Directory. Tip: whenever you buy a pre-built PC, run some benchmarks to see if the performance numbers are comparable to similarly specced...
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Mastodon is quickly becoming my favorite social media platform, so I thought I’d give the now-sorta-official ActivityPub plugin a go. The ActivityPub protocol is what Mastodon is built on, and the...
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In 2024, please switch to Firefox
This December, if there’s one tech New Year’s resolution I’d encourage you to have, it’s switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media,...
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