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“You have 20 seconds to comply” Such a famous line, and yet it’s not even said by the titular character, but we’ll come to that. Robocop was from an era in the 1980s when violence in films was controversial and directors like Paul Verhoeven were famous for their sheer amount of gun violence, or perhaps it was the love of squibs for entry / exit wounds? I was in my teens when I first saw Robocop in the late 1980s, on a rental VHS tape hooked up to a small 21" 4:3 CRT, with a bunch of friends who would get together to watch horror, sci-fi and generally low quality B Movies from local rental shops....

This page covers what electronic devices, equipment and software I’m running right now. What’s New? It’s been 9 months since my last ‘Currently Using’ update and this one is largely incremental. I just haven’t really needed to buy anything or make any major changes - though I’m expecting to have to make a few hardware replacements in 2023 as some of my kit hits the decade mark! The only real hardware change was to the SSD on my archive server....

A new PC build? It’s been a long, long time since I did a from-scratch PC build, but for this Xmas I’ll be doing two for the family. Yes, it has come to this time. These are for people used to a Switch/PS4 console gaming environment, and have only really used Raspberry Pis and general laptops for computing or PC styl;e gaming. Expected usage will be: 1080p gaming (Minecraft, Apex Legends/Fortnite etc....

Moving from SpiderOak to Syncthing for local Sync Firstly, I know there are simpler ways to deal with the following problem, but just bear with me! At home I regularly work between 3 machines - my desktop workhorse Windows 10 box, my Linux laptop (an 8 yr old ThinkPad E440), and sometimes the family Dell XPS Windows 11 laptop. I need to have my ‘current projects’ folder sync’d between these machines, which comes to about 300MB of mainly text and small image files....

This page covers what electronic devices, equipment and software I’m running right now. What’s New? I don’t often do these colophon / ‘what am I using’ pages more than a couple of times a year since I don’t often change much these days. However, I’m putting one in only three months after the last one to capture a few quick changes. I replaced the second (and final) 4TB WD Red drive in my archive server, and replaced it with another 6TB Seagate IronWolf drive....