Mon 17 Aug 2026

Hi all.

I’ve not been active once again on this page. Just a bunch of stuff has happened in my life.
Just last week I got some stuff approved for some help. So that means they will contact me before the 28th of August, and inform me about what time and schedule they have regarding all what they can and will help with. Primarily they have told me they can help with cleaning, making food, shopping for daily stuff. But even if I have told them that I don’t really need them, they have kept saying that I can get it and see if it helps my case. So I guessed as much that I might just try it because I don’t really have anything else that I can do, or try.

Then yesterday, I got a new desktop, or rather a NUC (Next Unit of Computing). One of those small machines that don’t use much power. And then today I got a new laptop, or a used one. A, looks almost brand new with no wear or anything, Thinkpad T420. Just needs to get my old laptop SSD and install that one, after I’ve made a backup and saved the files, but it’s a Macbook, so the file system is a little different. And then I also need to get some more RAM for this laptop. It currently only has 4GB, and I’ve seen posts that you can upgrade it to 16GB with the current CPU. Even when the officially supported only is 8GB. But that would be fine. Then at the last thing I would need to get a new battery, because this battery I currently have in it is 110% dead. It isn’t even detected by the OS. I have not been in the BIOS to check, but I’m not even sure if I can see that in the BIOS, with this old BIOS version.

Yesterday when I was picking up my brother, then we went to the store and bought some spicy food for videos, since I do some videos on food and beverages on the Youtube. But I haven’t done anything yet today. Maybe tomorrow I will do something. I also got one drink I need to make a video on.

Keeping on the Youtube stuff, then I’ve been thinking of making videos on my life, and what I do. Kinda like vlogs, but not on a fixed schedule. And just stuff here at home with what I do, and my ideas, which likely wont become to something. And I do kind of want to put these videos on the oldest channel I currently have, where I do have some other subscribers, and people I know are subscribed to. I just cant figure out if I should make the videos in 480p, or 1080p. I’ve asked other people I know what they think and they said that it’s good that I want to start doing something, but they don’t really have any idea on what else I should do and with that.

Like so far I’ve gotten these ideas:

• Talk about my story, where I’ve been for the past few years and that
• Fix my room, like clean it up, put stuff where it’s supposed to be
• Look through the computers and hardware I have to test it and see if it should be listed for sale, or thrown out
• Talk about the tech I use and what quality and stuff you can get from it in regards to capturing video
• Weight-losing journey (would give motivation to keep making videos to see the progress)

So yeah, there’s a little bit that can be done. Then of course I want to keep making videos on the food and beverages, just because I like the type of videos where it’s just chugged or eaten weirdly.

Some days ago I put in a Dell Optiplex 980 DT into the closet to have a PiHole and Plex/Jellyfin server, but my dad has said that it uses alot of power. But when we looked more into it, then you cant even see it on the power usage chart we get daily. To be fair, its not really being used for many things and not many people use it, since for Plex, if I want to share the movies for other users like the people living here, I would need to pay the monthly subscription or get the expensive lifetime license. I do have Jellyfin on the same files and I do prefer the Jellyfin software over the Plex. But I just cant get Jellyfin to work over the network, after the router, like public. It works fine locally. Like on my computers and TV.

Here in my room I’ve gotten an small TV, and I found a DVD Recorder yesterday, but with the TV I need to get the remote for it, because you are not able to swap from the HDMI port to any of the other ports or channels without it. The only buttons on the side of the TV is Power, Channel up and down, volume up and down. There is no other way of doing anything. I did try holding down many buttons. And I did find someone saying that on this version of TV that if the TV gets a signal from a device it will switch to it. So I did get the DVD Recorder to show something, BUT I wasn’t able to do anything because the DVD Recorder came up with a screen to input the time and date, and you couldn’t use it before you had pressed OK. And the remote that was at the recycle center was for a VHS machine, but since it does have some TV buttons, I was able to power off the TV, and change the volume. But the program buttons don’t do anything. So I guess I’ll have to order a remote if I want to try and use this TV and DVD recorder. Both are Philips. I do want to get the TV working as it’s an easier way to see the stuff whenever I’m either playing games or having something running like news. The DVD recorder I like because if it can record to DVD’s then I would be able to record my gameplay videos from older consoles onto that instead of using a capture card. I know that this is a bit weird of saying it, but I do want to show how stuff was originally, like if you watched videos online back in 2005ish for a PS2 game, or something like that then this is the quality you got, because people didn’t have capture cards back then. They recorded to DVD or a camcorder through an input, like composite in on the TV, and then some TV’s had a composite out, where people would connect their cameras to. I remember watching videos by someone called CMNeir on Youtube that did that for some years. He did Halo videos, but since I haven’t seen his videos lately or the past few years, then I’m not sure what he is doing anymore.

Anyway, I think that’s it for today. It’s a long post.