Fold Fame
The biggest surprise with using a Samsung Fold to me, aside from the fact that it wasn't as good at multitasking as I hoped, is the amount of interest I get from friends and randos.
Is it good?
What's the battery life like?
Wow that's big!
That's an iPhone isn't it? (...)
Phase One Sort; Done!
Well I've done it. Started to think it was not possible. What? Well I've got my garage sorted enough that I can do things in it. Weights. Repairs. 3D printing. Storage. I can even fit a motorbike if need be. Wow.
For a time I was starting to think I'd need to get storage, at least for a short time, to enable me to have the room to make the room. But no! I've done it.
This is quite a big deal. Around five years ago I started on this project as I was planning on moving as part (...)
VLC is patently free
When I first (reluctantly) moved to the PC world I was in need of software to do the work I had in mind; viewing/editing images at the time. Support in Windows at the time (Win95) was atrocious and I ended up buying an image viewer.... and then a general file viewer... (...and I still want to write my own version of that concept...) then when audio became possible things had started changing. Winamp was kinda Freemium, and VLC is free. So why? Are they just crazy generous? Should Sinner (...)
The Bit Where You Unlock Your Bits in the Bitlocker Locker
Bitlocker has been around for almost 20 years. I've never chose to use it, but it's been on by default and my policy is generally to give something a go and not rock the boat unless it's seems to be required. It's never given me any issues; I've tended to print out recovery keys if they are thrust in my face but it's never given me a reason to look into it more or remove it.
Recently though I've had two issues. One with my new ASUS where on a start it asked for the recovery key, (...)
Blocking out Blocks made by Blocking company before I am Blocked
I'm pretty into "block" sets. Like LEGO. Used to just be LEGO, but over time I went from "It's LEGO or nothing" to "I wish TLG (The LEGO Group) did that" to "oh, that one looks OK, I'll buy it". To expand, it was mostly over lines like Halo Mega Bloks, and once the rule had been broken I just kept buying. Often there was a vague excuse; the theme, the price, but the end result was the same. I had learnt the key fact; LEGO isn't the only block in town, and some of the other brands are just as (...)
Switching It Up
Quick Update One: July 2026
As a way of keeping me on track as well as giving updates as well as giving me an easy news I'll be every few months giving quick updates to things that I have kinda dropped on the floor and want to pick up. So lets go!
- VocoPro SDR-4000. Not much to say right now. I've been using it for it's intended purpose but I've made some changes to my audio system that I'll be discussing more later...
- LG V60. I did buy one. I did try to convert to using one. But my carrier didn (...)
Future Predictions Imperfect
I've read a lot of Sci-Fi novels, more in the past I must admit, but I've always found it funny/interesting how some of the common tech of today was not predicted at all. The classic example is phones. Generally at best there's some sort of pager, but in most cases people have nothing. Home phones, often with video, are more the norm. I can understand this too, 'cos I was growing up while mobile phones were becoming a thing. I knew people with a mobile phone and I never really saw the point. (...)
Lens-a-thon
Yes! There are fitness benefits to photography! I often walk around all day with 10+ kg of equipment in my backpack. (Yeah, backpack. I've tried other styles but they are too tiring too fast. Mine's a Lowepro Flipside 400 AW II, might rant more about it later.) And it sure burns off energy. But I don't do it every day. So it probably doesn't work too well...
I would like to start doing long bushwalks though. I'll have (...)
Dave's garage
Dave Plummer had a cool video with associated source last week highlighting some of the how's and why's of Windows ASM software. It's an interesting summary of the power of Windows software... and at the same time why it's a bit pointless doing ASM; you're at the mercy of the Win32 libraries so if they are not running as efficient as your own code you are no longer the (...)
