Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
02/26/2019
Who doesn’t know PUBG now days? It has become the most downloaded game and has been played by not only the youngsters but even the middle-aged people are watched playing it. Even I found many of my office colleagues playing the same and spending lot of their time in office washrooms. You wont believe but many have started their own YouTube channel so that they can upload the PUBG videos…
02/17/2019
I’ve had an Android phone since the Nexus 1, and haven’t been able to get KDE Connect to work… until now 🙂 https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect Easy as installing KDEConnect from the Android Play store, and I grabbed KDE Connect for Ubuntu via Synaptic… I didn’t know the full name to install it via apt-get 🙁 Think I’m going to use it mose to move files between devices… although the shared clipboard could…
02/16/2019
My long serving Nexus 5X suffered the impact of a HotWheels car crashing down onto it fingerprint scanner, knocking it unresponsive 🙁 This was just the motivation I needed to pick up a new phone, and I’ve had my eye on the OnePlus 6T since it’s recent release 🙂 I opted for the 128 GB model, as that’s more than I will need in the near future… and one of…
01/05/2019
I’m still processing Dark Souls iii (sad eh?), so today was a Retro Android Platform evening 🙂 MegaDrive: Caliber.50 Playing Caliber .50 on the Genesis Strangest enemy difficulty where tanks explode quickly, enemy rockets fire faster than bullets, and bosses are mega derranged animals. Novel controls with buttons to rotate#retrogaming #Megadrive #SEGAhttps://t.co/DYCP2mxGhO — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) January 5, 2019 Played via RetroArch on Nvidia Shield Android: Does Not Commute I…
05/09/2017
Both Android and Ubuntu received official updates today 🙂 Made a clean install of Ubuntu 17.04, everything works well out of the box. Then there’s the compulsory: 17 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 17.04 Was surprised at the size of the Android security patch at over 300 MB to version 7.1.2! All was well until a week later my phone bricked; I pulled it out of my pocket and…
10/18/2016
I received my EFF member tshirt, together with membership card and bumper sticker 🙂 I’ve got back into GTAV, just before the announcement of Red Dead Redemption 2! Been playing a little of one of the free games for October on PSN network Transformers: Devastation, although was very tempted to pick up the original Resident Evil HD remake. I’ve been working on Machine Learning models in R and Python, playing…
02/28/2016
While reading the wiki on Street Fighter iv, fact checking for my last post, I foiund this hidden gem unknown to me: Street Fighter iv Android version On January 5, 2012, a version of the game called Street Fighter IV HD was released for LG’s Android-powered Nitro HD and Optimus LTE phones.[46][14] On December 30, 2012, the exclusivity was dropped and the game was re-released on Google Play, this time…
02/07/2016
The Nexus 5X has been my primary handset now for a couple of months, I am loving the speed of the device and 4G, but there’s something I’ve been missing, and that’s super user access. My history of rooting Nexus devices is documented on this blog back to the Nexus 1, and touch wood I haven’t had any issues in the past… except losing data once in a while. Rule…
Android Police: Facebook Is Adding Tor Support To The Android App. Engadget: Facebook on Android gives you privacy through Tor. The Guardian: Facebook adds Android app support for anonymity service Tor. So from what I understand all this will allow is FaceBook to be accessed via an onion domain. Is this a good / bad thing? Pro Given the FB user base size, this may encourage more individuals to use…
01/23/2016
I’ve not been posting as often as I’d like due to the Android WordPress app not connecting… that’s another post. What I have been doing over the last couple of days is dropping any stories that I like to Google Keep. This has to be the one mobile app that I find the most useful; from shopping, book, movie, games, and to-do lists, to inspirations, notes, and shit I must…