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Picked up copies of Skyrim and The Witcher III to play on Xbox. What’s ultra-annoying is that there seems to be absolutely no way to transfer my saves from the games played on other platforms which means that I have to start again! (One of the benefits of playing emulated retrogames is the ease with which you can manage saves (and save states).#gaming
20% of UK would prefer to live in a dictatorship?https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/one-in-five-britons-aged-18-45-prefer-unelected-leaders-to-democracy-poll-finds#ukpolitics #uk
400 day “streak” (though Duolingo is clever not to ever really let you break a streak).#blog
Hallelujah! I've FINALLY managed to install Bookstack as a Docker container after SO many attempts. It turned out that the APP_KEY generated was the wrong and wanted a key of 32 bytes (the one generated was too long). Over the last couple of weeks I tried all sorts of solutions and this one – found in a little comment on Github – worked.#bookstack #selfhosted
Last charity shop purchase today was a copy of Milton’s Selected Poems. It’s many years since I’ve read Milton (20+) and whenever I see Paradise Lost referenced in a movie or tv show, I tell myself I should really re-read it. I’ve got no idea what Milton’s current critical status is nowadays. There was a time when Milton was held in the esteem Shakespeare has today.#booksbuy
And yet another secondhand find today was The Complete Book of Thunderbirds by Chris Bentley. It appeals to the nostalgia I have for tv shows that were already old when I was a child. I keep meaning to ~~force my sons~~ show my sons Thunderbirds and see what they make of it.#booksbuy
Another book found in a charity shop today: Wild Cards edited by George R.R. Martin. (I think that I have read this before a long, long time ago – 1980s? – at the same time as The Thieves World collections which strike meas being the same sort of idea.) This copy’s unread.#booksbuy
Charity shop purchase today: Worlds of Wonder by David Gerrald. I’m usually highly skeptical about “How to Write” books but, after flicking through this there was enough to encourage to pick it up. Plus I have the Straczynski scriptwriting one in the series which is pretty good.#booksbuy
Saw a trailer for an upcoming film that started with "A movie that is GENUINELY funny." Hmmmm… What's the difference between "funny" and "genuinely funny"?(For some reason that adverb has completely put me off.)#movies
Looking over music I listened to in 2024, I seem to have listened to LESS. I thought I’d listened to a LOT of new music (and a MASSIVE amount of Autechre). Something went wrong in the way I track my listening (and may have been exacerbated by using my ipod a great deal). So, after an afternoon of sorting out automatic scrobbling from all the apps and devices I use (and finding out how to manually scrobble using the Finale app) I declare 2025 to be my Year of Scrobble.#blog #music #scrobbling
It snowed here in South-East Albion. For once, the forecasts proved true.#blog
Started Pokemon Crystal for the first time. Totodile as my starter.#gaming
South-East Albion this evening.#blog
Urgh! I give up. Been trying to fix various permissions on a Dietpi installation to no avail. Now tried to do this about 5 times and, each time, the mistake I’m making is to try and use an external drive (to store Docker containers). I just don’t have the skills to solve issues that I’m encountering. So, tomorrow, I’m picking up a capacious micro sd and start again and keep everything ON the card. It’s tedious but I’ve increased my understanding of usingDocker about 200% in the process.#blog
2024 is so passé. It was so mindful. So demure.#blog
I've been playing with OpenMediaVault this evening. So impressed with how easy the installation is and how it operates. REALLY user-friendly. At the moment I use a Synology NAS but when that becomes planned obsolescent, I'll just build my own using OMV.#openmediavault #foss
After taking my youngest to see Sonic 3 at the cinema today I will lead the call in demanding to see a Dr Robotnik movie in which Jim Carey is in EVERY scene. As much as my son LOVED it, I thought scenes without Robotnik were unbearable. And there weren't nearly enough scenes with Robotnik in them (which they obviously tried to compensate for by having Carey play two different Robotniks).#blog #movies #sonic3
Just read another “What to expect in 2025” article and continue to notice how every aspect of life is given value and prestige by how much money it brings the economy. Food, going to exhibitions, sport, even the Oasis reunion are made worthy by the acts of people handing over cash to “boost” the economy. Constant brain-programming tomake sure you get the message. I imagine “The Economy” to be a gigantic, grotesque Roman emperor before who we have to genuflect.#economy #economics #2025
New Loula Yorke Live Compendium just out on Bandcamp. Just listened and it's REALLY good.https://loulayorke.bandcamp.com/album/loula-yorke-live-compendium#LoulaYorke #electronic #music
Forced myself to sit through the Doctor Who Christmas Special. I had low expectations. And, yes, it was dire. (I know that I’m not the audience for modern who and that it’s aimed at the same viewers who tune in to the One Show, Strictly and Gavin & Stacey.)#DoctorWho
