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Miscellaneous Tech stuff

So long, Grav, and thanks for all the fish

Grav did me proud for 5 years. I’m glad that I played with it, and I learned an awful lot about content management systems. However, I think it’s time to move on. Grav is a “flat file” CMS. That means…

A little more retro please, sir.

Last week I wrote about the diving I’ve done back into Spectrum BASIC coding. I have to say that it’s been a LOT of hard work to update the old code. Updating it to work on all the newer machines…

AI, AI, everywhere you look

It seems that the world is just going more and more into AI. It almost feels like we’re on a rollercoaster and nobody’s at the controls…. All the AI I’ve seen so far has been bland, boring and weak sauce…

It’s all in the drivers…

So after a day of pouring due to a journey of to Scotland to see my best friend, I came back to continue testing Kubuntu. My biggest problem with Linux Mint was that games tended to need a lot of…

The move to Kubuntu….

Well it’s finally happened. Running KDE on mint has been pretty damn good… I’ve had no crashes and games just seem to work.. But it’s been irking me that the menus are full of mint config and apps plus also…

The pain of NVidia on Linux

Gaming on Linux, thanks to the Wine project and Steam are now easier than ever. To install Linux on a laptop is just a simple case of writing the OS onto a thumb drive, turning off the accursed Secure Boot…

Is Nouveau finally better than Nvidia’s own drivers?

For years, Nvidia has produced second-rate Linux drivers. They cause problems with SecureBoot, they don’t work with multiple monitors, they flicker, they don’t manage framebuffers properly, they hang for no reason… The list of problems people have had are endless.…

Virtual 5.1 or 7.1 surround on Linux

So, what a lot of people don’t realise is that when they buy those snazzy 5.1 or 7.1 surround gaming headphones, they’re not actually buying headphones with 6 or 8 tiny little speakers in them. What they’re actually buying is…