Kate's somewhat eclectic journal
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So, the plan is to run Home Assistant. If you’ve not gathered that already. Why? I dunno. Because it interests me. Things I’d like to do with HA: I dunno what else. We have smart-lights in the lounge (although I’m…
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Today I was unintentionally more productive than I intended to be. I’d not intended to be productive, well, maybe a little productive, but it got out of hand, like it usually does. Although I did spend nearly 2 hours just…
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So, having replaced all the capacitors, today was the day for reassembly. In a hilarious misjudgement I thought I’d do it before lunch, and then do something else in the sunshine after lunch. Ha. Ha ha. Part of the problem…
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So I spent today (literally nearly all of today, although I was kinda slow to get going) working on the A4. Having cleaned up the mainboard when I stripped it out (here), and having ordered the bits to fix it…
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So I’ve finally given in. Nikki has been showing off the joys of Plex. I did try it before, but I think that the woeful inadequacy of the media server (Athlon 2800+ FTW) somewhat screwed that pooch. So after various…

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