I was running low of room and had to keep backing up steam games to other drives, so I guess that's the silver lining to this, I now have a valid reason to get a 1TB ssd.
Oh joy, I actually have two operating systems to install! I've got to put windows 7 back on my desktop, plus today I bought an asus vivopc (like a slightly larger intel nuc) for use as a ip security camera server.
I was going to install linux on it (makes sense for an always on server that's mostly headless), but the main security camera software for it, ZoneMinder, sounds like crap. It's very heavy on resources and saves everything as single images, not the incoming mjpeg stream. Sounds like the only good free security camera apps are on windows.
I need to sort out my licenses.
Argh, I bought an led tube light to replace the fluorescent light in my room, it said it was an easy replacement. Yeah, easy if you don't mind rewiring the socket to bypass the starter and ballast. Grrr.
Luckily I've done electronic engineering. I try to avoid 240v stuff, give me 5-12v any day, but it shouldn't be hard to do. Hopefully it's not illegal.
My father wired up my bedroom when I was a teenager. I wondered why I used to get tingles from computer if I was bare foot. Years later I finally decided to look into it, turns out he never connected the earth wire! All the power sockets in the room were unearthed and had a floating dc voltage on them. ****ing hell! He was a real danger, he once made an extension cable with a male plug on each end, that meant it had two live pins sticking out one end! (It was for some stupid second hand tool he got that wrongly had a female plug on it. Instead of fixing the tool's cable, he ruined an extension cord)
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