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You're Absolutely Right!

You're Absolutely Right!

Earlier in the year, around 6 months ago, my workplace introduce AI tools into each area of the business and said "go crazy with it, see what it can do for you" and straight away I could see how powerful AI can be. The possibillities were endless, limited

PADD - pi-hole stats

PADD - pi-hole stats

I have been running PADD on a 7 inch screen which is attached to my Raspberry Pi 4 for a fair number of years now. I recently obtained a POE Hat for it but after fitting it, I soon realised that it couldn't allow the screen to be

I ❤️ rsync

Finally after many many conversations with friends, I have a working backup solution setup and in place. This uses rsync and automatically copies files from 2 different directories on one machine and places them in a directory on another machine. This is a long way off from the recommended 3,

I've only gone and joined a Gym!

I've only gone and joined a Gym!

My son, Stanley joined "The Gym Group" last year and was going quite regular for a couple of months. At the time however he was only 15 and when challenged by a member of staff, he had his membership revoked. I said to him, when he turns 16,

Sonarr TV Schedule

Sonarr TV Schedule

"When is the next episode of Cooper and Fry?" I was asked by my girlfriend. It is this sort of question that I get asked quite regular. "Whens the next episode of <insert tv show here>" I looked it up and gave her the

Training is hard!

Training is hard!

My previous post explained how I created a workout plan with the help of Chat GPT. Here I want to blog about me actually using this workout plan and how I have been getting on. After creating the workout plan on the evening of Wednesday 23rd July, I then set

Training & Fitness with Chat GPT

Training & Fitness with Chat GPT

Following on from my previous post, I set about creating something that will go someway of getting me fit again. My main goal was to get rid of my belly fat, drop a few waist sizes and lose 2 or 3 stone. I started out by asking Chat GPT to

Sorry & Thank you

Sorry & Thank you

I want to start this post with an apology. I haven't posted anything here in quite some time. There are a few reasons for this, some of which I won't go into. I want to go back to Jan 2023. Some of my close family and

Pi-Hole V6

On the 18th February, Pi-Hole V6 was released. For those that don't know, Pi-Hole is a network wide ad-blocker which can be installed on bare metal or in a docker container. I personally have installed pi-hole onto 2 Raspberry Pi's. You can

RIP Don

HP iLO4

About 10 years ago Hewlett Packard released the Proliant Microserver Gen8. A number of my friends & colleagues had one and convinced me I needed to buy one. So thats what I did. At the time, this thing was about £80-100 and I remember getting it with a cashback

Stan's Photography

Stan's Photography

I just want to quickly give Stanley, my Son, a shout. Recently he has been getting into photography and I have helped him setup his portfolio site which he intends on expanding more and more. https://cars.stansphotography.co.uk I have linked it at the bottom of my site

Wansview warning

Wansview warning

I'm a little behind schedule in creating this post but for good reason. At the time of creating my first post I alluded to the fact that I had bought a couple of wifi ip cameras. The Wansview Q5 no less. https://wansview.com/q5 Initially, I was

New Site, New Start

New Site, New Start

This is my first official blog post! EXCITING TIMES! Is it really? - probably not. I'm going to try and make some weekly blog posts about what i've been upto over the previous week when it comes to my homelab and self-hosting escapades. I have some