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Speeding up Windows PC
My dad is pretty tech-savvy (he was an electronic engineer) however he was having problems with how long it took his Windows PC to become usable.
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How I learnt to run my own personal AI
By now most people have tried or at least heard of ChatGPT. It is now relatively easy to run your own AI instance on your own machine.
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Simple tips can make a difference
When I grew up I had an old 35mm Praktica camera that was given to me. I purchased some lenses for it and mostly used it to take pictures of the Somerset cricket matches I went to watch.
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Show seconds in the Windows 11 taskbar
I noticed the other day that my wife’s laptop was showing seconds in the time in the taskbar but my laptop was not; a very handy feature to have.
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My Free Blog Setup
I thought it was worth documenting my current setup for this blog. Most of it is automated and it costs me nothing to host it.
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Homemade do not disturb light
My current role means I work full time from home - which is great. The commute is easier, the food is better and having flexibility is great.
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Fix default Android emulator not showing in Visual Studio 2022
I am working on a Maui application in my spare time and Visual Studio has this annoying habit of not showing the default Android emulator when I load the project. I could go through the hassle of creating a new emulator each time but that is painful and slow.
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Solving a Dell laptop freezing
I have a Dell XPS13 laptop and it developed this really annoying habit of randomly freezing for a few seconds and then carrying on as if nothing had happened. It quite often happened in the middle of a work call which made it pretty much unusable.
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How to fix Sony Bravia/Sonos sound stops working
We have a Sony Bravia television connected to a Sonos Beam which in turn is linked to a couple of Sonos Ones. They have been working fine for quite a while but suddenly lost sound.
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How to find a missing Sonos
We recently purchased a Sonos Beam and hooked it up to 2 Sonos Play Ones we already had. It works really well and we are really pleased with it. We expected to mostly use it with the TV but have found ourselves using it more and more to play music. However every few days the Sonos app seems to lose the setup. The TV still works with it but the application does not show the system - this is very frustrating.
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The ultimate paper airplane database
This site contains a collection of easy to follow designs for paper airplanes. Something for the “kids” to try.
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Getting started with the Hugo static site generator
This blog is being powered by a static content generator called Hugo and hosted on GitHub Pages. Getting Hugo up and running was relatively easy. Download the relevant version and installation was just copying it to a folder.
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