A week off work was much needed. Time to recharge although sleep was awful until Friday night – grrrr. Made terrific progress with the custom NAS – now got all the basic docker images installed, Plex humming along nicely and all the data from the Synology is migrated. Thats a blog post I need to write – what hardware, why Unraid, how I’ve found it a few weeks in compared to Synology.
Storm Amy felt was a rude awakening that we’re well into autumn. Got most of the garden winter ready…fingers crossed that I don’t need to cut the grass again but will really depend on a cooler October.
Sora 2 is here – some of the videos I’ve seen Sora 2 generate are amazing…but it’s more slop. I’ve not bothered downloading OpenAI’s social media app that’s full of the videos being generated but seeing them seep elsewhere.
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? – Amazon really is stuffed full of shit sellers so you need to be more aware than ever when ordering…but they also have made it really easy to tower and return anything with problems. While not always the cheapest they were for 90% of the components needed for my NAS build.
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought – there’s been many tech leaders who’s actions have been suspicious over the years but have kept their real views hidden…except they aren’t hiding anymore. Grim.
In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information – another shout out for RSS from actual blogs rather than sifting through feeds of shit forced on you via X, Bluesky, LinkedIn or one of the Meta platforms. Mastodon while not perfect is so much better than any alternative right now.
Always invite Anna – this really hit home. I’m not the most sociable but also recognise how it feels not to be invited. Beautiful post.
Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month – everyone expected price rises were coming but this is excessive. I guess the loss of COD money had to be made up somewhere. I’ve got another 9 months of Ultimate paid for, but will drop down after that and go back to buying the odd AAA game I want to play. Not sure what’s next for gaming at Microsoft – rumours they might not do any more hardware and it feels like they’ve set fire to Game Pass.
Jumped on to macOS Tahoe this week – should have left it until a .1 comes out. Buggy and crashy.
And one game I really am looking forward to that comes out this week is Battlefield. Loved the demo and the sneak peaks into what’s coming in multiplayer and some of the single player game looks really good. Are they back?