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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-22 at 10:23

usy with my daughter's birthday yesterday so...

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-21 at 10:28

Not much yesterday, I was busy and really shouldn't have looked at the news.

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-20 at 17:38

I just risked an eye on the news and I'm definitely keeping my filters switched on. Solidarity with every square peg that won't fit in the round holes of the permanently offended who are going to drive the US into the ground because of their witless prejudices.

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-19 at 13:56

I posted that I was quitting Facebook yesterday and gave the reason as the change in moderation policy and their getting on board the Trump train and was unfollowed by a friend who I've known for 40 years and who is a full on Whitby regular goth. Then I remembered he also does WW2 German war gaming and stood to be a Reform plc councillor a couple of years ago. Well, then.

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-15 at 22:31

Moves Proton from one column to another, longer column

Time to actually make my self-hosting setup more secure and reliable I think.

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-15 at 17:46

On an 80s tip, plus new music from Subexotic:

• Syncbeat - Peel Session - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HIZZLpMwuE: A 1984 A Certain Ratio spinoff that recorded a single, several tracks under different names for the first UK Electro compilation and this Peel session. Funky digital breakbeat before breakbeat was a thing, driven by Donald Johnson's slap bass, which still sounds amazing even if slap has mostly been relegated to Level 42 and 80s nostalgia now.

• A.R. Kane - Up Home - https://arkaneband.bandcamp.com/album/up-home: Shoegaze or dreampop before those things existed. Fuzed out guitars, stoned and wandering in caverns, an accompaniment to their debut LP '69'.

• Drew Mulholland and Garden Gate - Night Blooming Flowers - https://gardengate.bandcamp.com/album/night-blooming-flowers-2: New from Subexotic. A hauntological soundtrack that is sometimes pastoral, as in 'shadows in the woods' and sometimes reminiscent of David Lynchian industrial noise.

• Audio Obscura - Acid Field Recordings in Dub - @Audio_Obscura https://audioobscura.bandcamp.com/album/acid-field-recordings-in-dub: Audio Obscura returns with a collection of dubbed up environment ambient pieces that remind me most of late (mid-90s) Cabaret Voltaire and not just because he mentions Chris Watson in his notes.

• Miles Otto - Desynclined - https://milesotto.bandcamp.com/album/desynclined: The debut full length LP from Otto and the first I've heard of his music, a sort of deconstructed electronica that verges on techno sometimes and abstract crunchy noise at others. Interesting for its approach but coming as much from an academic exercise as the dancefloor.

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-13 at 12:59

We seem to be getting a @xylander session on The Indie Beat electronic channel at the moment.

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-13 at 06:43

Hi @admin I'm not able to follow @bradford from my instance. I run GotoSocial so I'll check with them about interacting with snac as well.

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-12 at 14:06

I made some broccoli soup with a couple of stalks and some garlic and ginger paste, but I think I should have sieved it before serving. Fibrous.

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-11 at 17:37

I've dropped another 8GB of RAM in it and swapped the NVMe for a spare 480GB stick, installed Debian 12 and it's all ready to go as a home application server.

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-11 at 10:04

Weathertron is showing -4C here. Our Sainsbury's driver came in from Harrogate and said they'd had -16 overnight. Nuts.

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-11 at 09:04

We're carless as our road is still snowy and being on the side of a hill can be challenging. We've booked a Sainsbury's delivery for this morning (possibly hopeful), and found that they had the inevitable beginning of January vegan and vegetarian offers on, but also, being January, the traditional Simon Howie vegetarian haggis. Except they don't have them in stock yet, so guess what the picker has substituted. Anyone? With a trolley of vegan frozens? #vegan #haggis

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-09 at 17:45

It's accessible from the underside on these, which was why I was a touch confused. The hardware manual is here: https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/thinkcentre_pdf/m910q_ug_hmm_en.pdf

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-09 at 16:34

Ah, no correction, I've booted it up and it does have storage, which must also be under the fan. Back to the manual then...

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-09 at 15:42

Mine arrived at lunchtime, very nicely packaged with its PSU and a USB wifi dongle. The M910q takes SATA SSDs and M.2 NVMe, however, this one doesn't have any storage at all. It's not like I'm short of spares so it's not a problem, but it will be something to check. I'm also going to see if the bus takes an SSD and an M.2 drive or if it's one or the other. The RAM is 2400Mhz DDR4 and under the fan so I'll probably just boot it to check that's there at least.

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-08 at 21:59

If anyone's interested, this eBay seller has Lenovo M910q TinyPCs for £49.99. They have a failed DisplayPort apparently, and 8GB RAM and 128GB storage, but that is upgradable and they'd make neat little Linux/BSD homelab servers. I'm waiting for one to be delivered and will report back. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326354600316 (think that should strip the tracking). #homelab #selfhosting #server #linux #bsdunix

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-08 at 10:22

Is there a cross platform streaming TV recommendation site that lets you put in a series or two and recommends things that you might like? And also isn't shit? Bit of an ask these days I know, but hope springs, etc.

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-07 at 16:26

And now Triangulation, so it must be working its way through the EP

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-07 at 16:26

A mildly interesting thing this afternoon - we've had a woodcock in the garden. Never seen one before, and they're on the Birds of Conservation Concern red list. Seemed to be happily poking about in the snow. #birds @RSPB

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Written by Simon Greenwood on 2025-01-07 at 16:15

Well, I turn on #theindiebeatfm for the first time and it's playing one of my tunes, that's something. (Volta from Intercepted Signals if you're wondering).

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