{"id":156,"date":"2026-04-23T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkbluemonkey.com\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:19:06","slug":"blog-everything","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.darkbluemonkey.com\/?page_id=156","title":{"rendered":"Blog \/ everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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So long, Grav, and thanks for all the fish<\/a><\/h2>\n\n
April 23, 2026<\/div>\n\n

Grav did me proud for 5 years. I’m glad that I played with it, and I learned an awful lot\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>

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A little more retro please, sir.<\/a><\/h2>\n\n
February 23, 2026<\/div>\n\n

Last week I wrote about the diving I’ve done back into Spectrum BASIC coding. I have to say that it’s\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>

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AI, AI, everywhere you look<\/a><\/h2>\n\n
January 24, 2026<\/div>\n\n

It seems that the world is just going more and more into AI. It almost feels like we’re on a\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>

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Maybe installing a development branch wasn’t such a good idea….<\/a><\/h2>\n\n
January 10, 2026<\/div>\n\n

The ‘flavours’ of Ubuntu are a sort-of second-class citizen.. Canonical, obviously, want people to enjoy their flagship experience, which is\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>

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It’s all in the drivers…<\/a><\/h2>\n\n
December 29, 2025<\/div>\n\n

So after a day of pouring due to a journey of to Scotland to see my best friend, I came\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>

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The move to Kubuntu….<\/a><\/h2>\n\n
December 27, 2025<\/div>\n\n

Well it’s finally happened. Running KDE on mint has been pretty damn good\u2026 I’ve had no crashes and games just\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>

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The pain of NVidia on Linux<\/a><\/h2>\n\n
December 2, 2025<\/div>\n\n

Gaming on Linux, thanks to the Wine project and Steam are now easier than ever. To install Linux on a\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>

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Is Nouveau finally better than Nvidia’s own drivers?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n
November 28, 2025<\/div>\n\n

For years, Nvidia has produced second-rate Linux drivers. They cause problems with SecureBoot, they don’t work with multiple monitors, they\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>

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Virtual 5.1 or 7.1 surround on Linux<\/a><\/h2>\n\n
November 18, 2025<\/div>\n\n

So, what a lot of people don’t realise is that when they buy those snazzy 5.1 or 7.1 surround gaming\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>

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Phone Radar: An unusual application for Mesh Networking<\/a><\/h2>\n\n
November 11, 2025<\/div>\n\n

So, I don’t think I’m going out on a limb when I say that we tend to misplace our phones\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>

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Working with chatbots…<\/a><\/h2>\n\n
November 6, 2025<\/div>\n\n

I have to work with chatbots every day now for my role. It’s not something I specifically sought out, and\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>

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Should I post more?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n
November 4, 2025<\/div>\n\n

I had hoped that I’d find a more convenient way of writing into this blog. I’m not a diary keeper\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article><\/div>