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Posted on August 17, 2026

Mon 17 Aug 2026

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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.

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Posted on July 24, 2026

Fri 24 Jul 2026

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It’s been like a day or two since I’ve updated this website to WordPress, and I do want to get an SSL certificate just so I dont have the issue with the warning when visiting for new people. Even when I know barely anyone if anyone visits this page.

I looked at some plugins regarding the Youtube Feed, but I couldnt find anything that had the feature of multiple channels on the same feed. I could find some that had single channels, but that would be a mess. So I dropped it, but then I thought about making a post everytime that I uploaded something for the people that wasnt subscribed, but again, its alot of work.

Got a call about an hour or so ago, for someone asking for a company, I get these alot, because of the phonenumber I have on my landline phone. Its easy to remember like a commercial number. I do also know that it was used for some drug stuff before I got it, since it came up as a “do you know this person” because I had added it to my phone contacts, and the name was some drug king.

Then today I’ve added the vinyls I have on Discogs Collections, just to keep track of it, or more rather so I could check regarding making multiple folders, like I could have one for my dad and I could have one for the vinyls I own. As a way to remember what I got, even when I dont have that many, my dad does have thousands, which I told him I would try to log while he is on vacation the next few weeks.

I’ve been digitizing some tapes over the last month or so, and its really annoying that you look at a tape, see no mold or anything, then when you try to play it is very fussy, and even if you can fix that, then after getting the first hour or two on the computer, the audio just cuts out. So you have been recording for an hour with no audio. I started doing this to make a Jellyfin server for family to see the old tapes since you know, nobody have a tape player anymore, and even if they did, their TV only supports HDMI, and they would need to get an adapter, which I do know people wouldnt get just to play their old tapes.  From what I can see aswell regarding Jellyfin, then I’ve heard there was some internal issues, with some developers wanting to use AI, but the founders or leaders couldnt agree, so they all left, and it made the entire project standstill. I have not heard if there is any news on it since I read this a few days ago.

From one of the tapes I got another idea for a video game, but this one would be easier to make, I think. As it would be a singleplayer game, with a more “normal” goal, of going from point A to point B, and doing various tasks to get there. But who knows, if I can actually do something with this for once, instead of starting something only to drop it a few days later.

I cant remember if I said this, but I got my computer somewhat up and running this week. There was some issues last month where it would crash randomly, and when doing troubleshooting it just didnt make sense.
I tried:

  • Formatting to Linux
  • Running GPU intensive programs (Furmark)
  • Removing the graphicscard
  • Formatting to an older Windows (7)

And none of these worked. The GPU did look like it had some heat issues, so I thought it could have been that. Like the metal on the port side was all different colors like it has been very warm.

The thing that it was, was the power supply, after replacing that the computer worked fine, but testing the issue was a pain, because it didnt happen that often, like some days it could crash one or two times, and then it could go for a week with no issues. So I kept running Windows 7 while testing this, as it was a pretty stable OS, just some issues with running newer software.

Now I’ve gotten Windows 11 installed, because there was some issues with my capture card on Linux, and I just couldnt get the audio to work on anything I tried, even looking it up online said that the drivers were legacy in 2007, so thats quite old. But now that I’ve gotten Windows 11 installed, then I’m having another issue. My harddrive where my previous Windows install was on, before formatting everything. I had the computer running on a harddrive, but I found an SSD, so I wanted to install on that, while I did the testing and that. But Windows Explorer doesnt want to see what’s on the drive and tells me that I need to format it to see it, but its seeing its in NTFS format. Yet, when I use a program called WinDirStat (to check what files are large on the drive) it finds the drive fine and can see the files. I would like to be able to use the drive, not as a boot drive, if this SSD works, but for storage for projects and that stuff. My computer isnt even supported by Windows 11, so just getting something newer would be nice. Before the issue my computer took about 40 minutes to start up. Which was why it was just left on 24/7. Anyway thats enough of that, I can work with what I got.

For this website I need to remove the “leave a comment” part, since comments have been disabled, and I would love to get the full post down so it only shows part of the post, otherwise the post page gets very long.

I need to save up to get a small server or something to run programs on, like a small Optiplex Micro would be nice to have. I did contact a guy a few weeks ago asking about an Intel NUC he had for sale, but he answered 2 days later saying it was sold, but didnt update the ad, which I just hate when people cant be bothered to update their listings.

I think that’s it for this post, might update later if something new or interesting pops up.

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Posted on July 22, 2026

22 July 2026

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I haven’t posted much on the website. That’s part due to me being busy with other stuff. Like I’ve just been working on a lot of projects.

I just today got this page up and running on WordPress, which is both nice and annoying. One thing is that now that its a CMS with a login then I’m more out there in regards to hackers, on the other its nice and easy to make new posts and pages.

The older posts should all be online from when I had the other domain, and previous versions of the site. Sadly I don’t have any blog posts from older websites. Perhaps I could find it on the archive.

Anyway, I have gotten a design and made some things to the page so it feels somewhat like the old one. But it has taken a while to make the posts as they were in different formats and all that.

The categories are just rants and update. Nothing really more, currently.

I’m not really sure what more there is to this page, I can post more with more of the drama that I see online, but that could be a different category. I do need to make a page for my Youtube channels, so it would have all my videos on that. Perhaps I should also make a blog post everytime I upload anything, which now isnt that bad to make, but for how it used to be then yeah, it would be alot of work.

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Posted on May 28, 2026

28 May 2026

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Today I’ve been out getting some shelving units for my room. And Ive only built one so far. The way I had thought the layout of the room to be doesnt work, with the large bed. So I have to move some stuff around and figure out what I want instead. I’ve been thinking about making Youtube videos again, like just vlogs, gaming and food stuff. But I honestly do’t know what channel to do it on if I do it. Because I do have a gaming channel, I have a food channel, and I have my main channel, which I still call my main, but it isnt really. Since I havent been on it for a very long. Even when the channel is from 2011. As of right now I could make 4 videos without much work, but that would be food and drink videos. So shorter videos like a review. The reason why I cant figure out what channel it should be, is because I have the name Spody I use for almost everything, but people know it and I’m afraid of what people I know will say to it, if they watch it. I did once back like 15-16 years ago, if not more have a video uploaded that some people from my school watched, and then in the recommended it came up with a vlog thing I did. And I just have these panic attacks and anxiety feeling.The videos I have an idea of making them like 2010 style, with an older camera in a SD format, same with gaming stuff. Because I just like that genre of Youtube stuff. I grew up watching that. Even when my first Youtube account was created in 2006. So I’ve been on the platform for a long time. Before I do any videos I do kinda want to make sure that the room or the background of my webcam looks alright. I dont like having a mess and a bunch of stuff around. Its fine when its behind the camera. I could make a video and then a blog post about it, that would be both things at once. But I do have an idea of just making a bunch of videos like the channel MongoTV where he just does everything, like imaginary things, vlogs, and gaming videos. He also does a little of food stuff. I dont know. I’m just out here with a lot of ideas. My computer cant handle much right now. It was very loud, so I got a new one, but kept some parts. Now I just need to sell some of the older stuff.

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Posted on May 20, 2026

Wed 20 May 2026

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So I’ve had this issue with my computer for a few weeks now. I believe it happened after an update. After an update, possibly a week or so after the update, I tried to download something by torrent, but I couldnt find my torrenting software on my computer. The folder was in the Program Files, but it was empty. So I downloaded the same version again, and it came up and just opened the software, with the stuff I was seeding before. But the Torrenting software shut down after like 20 seconds, and then it was gone again. I tried to enable it in the Windows defender, but I couldnt add the exe file, so I added the folder where the software should be installed. And it still happens. So I am not sure what exactly I can do, other than turn off the defender, which isnt a good idea when Im already running an out of date operating system. So to be able to run a Torrenting program I have to install a different operating system, and all that, which I am just getting tired of having to do. Since there was issues with my computer the other day and I just want to use my computer without having to fiddle with everything.

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Posted on May 17, 2026

Sun 17 May 2026

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Have been looking alot at getting a Raspberry Pi to run PiHole or something to get rid of the ads for pretty much all the devices on the network. Its very annoying having to look at ads on the TV when streaming from Youtube and such. But I would also like to run a website or something, so would I need 2 Raspberry Pi’s or could I run with just 1? When I’m making websites it’s all just running on my desktop which is taking up alot of RAM and CPU, because of the background tasks and them running 24/7, plus a Raspberry Pi doesnt use much power. I remember my dad and I getting a bunch of them a few years ago, but we simply can’t remember where the ones that didnt get used are now. We used 11 of them for our retro TV flow channels, which can be seen on my projects page. Actually no, it isnt there. The project page is for software/websites and the experiments page is for the physical projects I’ve been making. Which isnt on there right now, but I’ll get it added very soon. Currently only this page, the life.php page is a CMS, the rest of the page isnt. I think it would be a decent idea to make the rest of the site into some kind of CMS, but I’m not 100% sure about that, as it would take up alot of resources, but it would be easier for me to change something, or add something new. I just need to remember that if I do it, I need to put timestamps on it. So I can keep track of the time something is changed and such. Currently where I live the power is expensive, so I dont want to put up a bigger server, even when I have the space for a rack server and I got one laying around, a Precision R5500, which is basically a PowerEdge server from Dell. I would actually like to set up a page for family photos, I believe I have something I made on a Mac, like 16 years ago from an app called DreamWeaver or something similar. You would just input the images and it would create the page for you with the thumbnails and making them clickable. Back in 2012-2014 I did have a thing for a fandom where it would show images like that for whatever people had sent me. I do like the idea of an archive site, or something like that, but I just dont feel like the cost of having something like that would be worth it if nobody uses it. And Im afraid of telling people about the projects I do. People do have the domain for this page, but I’m 100% sure that nobody reads it. All the blogs and that I’ve made before have been erased with time, or I’ve just forgotten where they are. Since I do have a bunch of stuff on my NAS with websites and that, but due to some update with Windows 10 it doesnt work with SMB1.0 which is what my NAS uses, even if its enabled in the settings, and I have the feature installed in the control panel. I got too much stuff. I want to get rid of so many things. Like even just getting rid of my desktop, because with what I use it for daily, then I could just run on a Raspberry Pi, but every once in a while I get invited to play a game, like Warcraft 3 or Diablo 2. And then I need Windows. For Warcraft 3 then you need to run Battle.net from Blizzard, and that doesnt work very well on Linux, with all the stuff that I’ve tried I just couldnt get it to launch the program, or the game. So I had to install Windows a few months ago. Thats how it is. I have been looking into just getting a Dell Optiplex DT of some newer kind, since I’ve been saying for a few years now that I need to have a computer with a full size PCIe and full size PCI slot on the motherboard, for my capture cards when I did Youtube and digitalization of tapes. I needed a way to record both HDMI and older stuff. But its very hard to find a motherboard now that has that if you dont look at older hardware. I believe I found something that the latest CPU/motherboard that supports it, is like the first generation Ryzen CPUs and Intel 7000 series. I do have a Dell Optiplex 980, but its only a 1st generation i5. So not more powerful than what I’m currently using, but its smaller and makes less noise. I do think that computer would be a great Linux machine, but yeah. Do I want to switch over to that now when I’m pretty well set in Windows 10? I have also been looking at getting a KVM so I could switch between 2-3 computers with using the same keyboard, mouse and monitors, so I didnt have to get alot of keyboards and different monitors when testing out other computers and all that. Since I do have a XP machine, a 98 laptop, and my current “gaming” rig, even when its not doing much gaming. The case I even got for my “gaming” computer is very old. It has floppy, 7 optical drives, and space for about 12x 3.5″ harddrives. So its quite massive. About the same height as my table, so that says something with how big it is. Looks a little like the old Mac Pro tower, but it also have wheels on it, and that makes it easier to move out when I need to do something on the back of it. I got alot of Core2 machines, and that all work. Perhaps I should test my PowerEdge Tower server to see if it works, when I last had it on for many days, then it just shut off and I didnt want to power it on again so I just left it. It got a Xeon CPU and 32GB RAM. Which could be used by someone else if they needed a cheap server. I have just used it for Proxmox and a bunch of virtual machines. I got to list some of the machines I have for sale, I just need to test them. Like got a iMac G3 that was in storage home the other day. Looking back at my previous post from the 16th of May 2026, then I see that links or a href links doesnt work when typing in this editor, I think I’ll just leave it like that. Even when it would be nice to be able to link to other pages when I’m writing about them. Hopefully today I will get a lamp put up in my room, it does get dark at some hours. But over the last few weeks I just havent been using my computer that much and just been in the common room. And when I’ve been in my room on the computer its been daytime and bright outside. The shed is full, since we put a lot of boxes over there while we sort through them with what to keep and what to throw out. I got no shelves or anything in my room, so its just an bed, my desk with my computer and some monitors, and then boxes. The shelving I had in the apartment I dont want to put up in this house. I do have my landline phone connected tho. So some stuff is there. I sold my B\u0026O MX1500 TV when we moved in, so I dont have a CRT anymore, other than the iMac G3, but I would love to have one, even if I dont use the TV that much, I still want one. I feel more at home with the older hardware, like I can feel at ease with knowing when stuff is on, like with my desktop. I’m using a mechanical harddrive, which with that I can feel with slowness of the computer when its in use, and if some background program is trying to install or get data. With a CRT I know that it wont take any of my data, like the smart TV in the common room. I know that I’m paranoid, but thats just how I am at the moment, and I have been for quite a while. Like if I could live in a shed in a forest I would just do that to get away from everyone, but sadly that isnt possible.

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Posted on May 16, 2026

Sat 16 May 2026

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I’ve been moving for the past few weeks, theres alot of stuff. Got my room set up with an bed and my desk with my computer, and thats about it. With all the stuff that I’m working on, I would like to get an upgrade for my computer. Since it takes a while to start up my computer, and I very often am at 100% utilization with CPU, RAM and HDD. Like an i7-3770, 16GB RAM and a 1TB HDD. So not too fast. But the most annoying thing about my computer is the noise it makes. Its very loud. Thats just the fans being loud. I would like to get an Dell Optiplex DT, or something. One with a DVD drive, and not one of the tiny small DVD slim drives, a normal big one. Not because I’m using it that often, more that I’m annoyed of the noise that the small ones make.One good thing about this house is that I have a 1000/1000Mbit connection, as Gigabit. So I can download and upload as fast as my harddrive lets me. Yesterday when I was eating my breakfast, I leaned back and the chair broke, so I fell off it and cut my hand on the part that broke, so it sliced up my hand. Which was not that painful when it happened, but now after it stings very much. Especially when I have soap touching it, or when laying my hand on some place. I think I’ll soon try to get this website up on the actual server. So it isnt just on my local machine as a diary or something. Even when my web host just decided to increase the price of my service. I both want and dont want to host stuff myself. Like ofcourse it would be nice, but then I dont want my IP, and there is also alot of maintenance with harddrives and such, plus if the internet or power goes out then it would still be up using a different host.

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