Recycled PS5 is alive
...so the BC-250 worked out fine. Funny stuff really. I bought it as I wanted a PS5 chip for geek value, but since I was overseas at the time I didn't do anything with it, came back and loads of smart people did all the hard work for me. It's now pretty much a case of "install Bazzite and use Steam"... all you need to work out youself is how you're going to power and cool it. Which is where I'm at. If you can find one cheap and have spare power supplies and or a case I suggest getting one (...)
The science of shopping research
Was doing some shopping research… it is that time of year afterall… and I was looking into a subject I know little about. E-ink writing tablets. I find these pretty cool, but really I don’t like writing so it’s no really for me. As a result I’m not really up to date with what’s a good buy. I knew of the well promoted ones and that seemed the best option, and I know of the companies that I’d assume would make one, but that’s about it. (Not going to name too many names here (...)
A word today is not the same word tomorrow
I was reading a post about Metal Gear Solid 4 (the exact topic not relevant to conversation, but in short it was about the difficulty of porting it) and Metal Gear Solid 5 was mentioned in the comments as a Sequel, to which some people went off that it's not a Sequel, it's a prequel. Sigh. Language creep.
Prequel is a "modern" (around late 50s supposedly) word that means "pre-sequel" and is a sub-set of sequel. Sequel simply means something that (...)
Pass the parts
So how's New Nas November going? Well it's December now, but yeah, it all went well. Still ongoing kinda though, so the final assessment of the Jonsbo N5 will have to wait a bit. Why is this? Well this whole server plan got complicated fast. As I said earlier, the new server become a priority as the server got old and died, forcing me to replace it with an even older machine. This created problem A; I didn't really want to go for a traditional NAS server (...)
