Recently I purchased an SSD for my wife’s Thinkpad. It wasn’t a big one, 256 gig, but her laptop is a little slow all around and the bottleneck seems to be mostly in the drive, which I am pretty sure is still old school spinning platters. Unfortunately, the drive in her laptop is 320 Gb, … [Read more…]
As a bit or a change of pace, I did a bit of work on the two actual PCs I am currently running recently. I’ve gone through a lot of desktops over the years, some getting more use than others, for a while I had like 5 or 6 old ones I had picked up … [Read more…]
So, the title there says New 3DS, which is is the “New 3DS” but it’s also New, in the sense that I bought it at the start of January. It’s like 3 or 4 weeks old. Then I broke it on accident. It’s taken me years to get around to saving the money to buy … [Read more…]
I’m not sure what it is about mobile operating systems, they just don’t always clean up after themselves and seem to be awful about eating up their limited space sometimes. I can only assume that there is some sort of glitch and a large batch of updates or temporary files don’t get deleted properly. In … [Read more…]
I wanted to take some time to touch on my every changing collection of Internet of Things style devices. Honestly, it’s kind of iffy what constitutes an “IOT” device, but for the most part I’m sticking with “cheap” and “non traditional computing devices”. The chief player among these are of course… The Raspberry Pi I’m … [Read more…]
The key component of the Synology is the Software. You can buy cheaper NAs devices if you just want a network storage device. Honestly, the price justification is almost entirely in the software, though the Hardware RAID (as opposed to Software RAID) is a partial factor as well. The box itself isn’t all that sophisticated … [Read more…]
A new phone wasn’t my only unexpected purchase on Black Friday, I also picked up a FitBit. I’ve been interested in the FitBit for a while now, I just never could bring myself to drop the money on one. It’s not even that it’s too expensive, I have just had better things to blow my … [Read more…]
I’ve been in Phone Hell the last week or so. It all started with Blizzcon. At kind of the last minute, I decided to get the virtual ticket for Blizzcon. Unfortunately, there is no support fro the live streams on Windows phone, so I swapped my SIM card into my old Galaxy S3, problem solved … [Read more…]
So I’ve been sitting on my Synology NAS for not quite a month now. I had already stuck a spare 250gb drive in it just for the sake of using the thing some and getting to play around with some of the software. I’ll touch on the software more in a future post, though the … [Read more…]
I finally got something I’ve wanted for a while, a sexy new NAS box. Unfortunately, I don’t have drives for it yet. I went ahead and ordered the box because in helps discourage me from accidentally spending the money I’ve been saving if it’s not there to spend. I plan to stick a pair … [Read more…]