This December, if there’s one tech New Year’s resolution I’d encourage you to have, it’s switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social ...
https://roytanck.com/2023/12/23/in-2024-please-switch-to-firefox/
Mastodon is quickly becoming my favorite social media platform, so I thought I’d give the now-sorta-official ActivityPub plugin a go. The ActivityPub protocol is what Mastodon is built on, and ...
https://roytanck.com/2023/10/25/testing-the-wordpress-activitypub-plugin/
Tip: whenever you buy a pre-built PC, run some benchmarks to see if the performance numbers are comparable to similarly specced systems. Long story short: for my PC they weren’t. Geekbench repo...
https://roytanck.com/2023/02/17/fixing-the-medion-erazer-engineer-e10/
Writing Open Source software is bit of a weird proposition. You spend time and effort creating something useful, and when you’re done, you give it away. Literally anyone can then use your code,...
https://roytanck.com/2022/11/17/contributing-to-the-wordpress-photo-directory/
As is probably evident from this blog, I’m a Linux guy. I’m not fond of Apple, and prefer not to use proprietary software. But I’m also a photographer, who likes to use Adobe Lightroom to d...
https://roytanck.com/2022/11/12/getting-a-gaming-pc-for-lightroom/
NAS devices are great for storing large amounts of files, and making them available to other devices on the network. A typical gigabit home network is usually fast enough to conveniently access t...
https://roytanck.com/2022/10/30/creating-a-direct-connection-between-your-pc-and-nas/
Earlier this year, when I was isolating because of Covid-19, I bought a second hand Vero 4K+. In terms of hardware, it’s very similar to other media players, but it’s the software that sets i...
Last february, I submitted the image above in the “Jammy Jellyfish 22.04 Wallpaper Competition“. After the competition closed, I received a message saying that it made it to the finalists, bu...
https://roytanck.com/2022/05/25/to-my-surprise-ubuntu-22-04-comes-with-a-wallpaper-image-i-created/
A while ago, I bought a Vero 4K+ media player. OSMC is excellent, and I love the Vero, but that’s a different story. This is about the machine it replaced. An older, passively cooled Shuttle ba...
When I posted my Javascript Sudoku solver earlier this month, I noted that it would be interesting to build a version that was optimized for speed. The original deliberately pauses every 1/100th ...