16/02/2019
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…
22/01/2019
#FFxv fin… I bought this at launch, finally completed the story #PS4share pic.twitter.com/uyXHSGEpi3 — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) January 21, 2019 Finally I’ve done it, another Final Fantasy story complete! iirc I picked this up at launch, and only put it down as Elite:Dangerous launched Beyond. I’ve come back to it a couple of times for prolonged sessions, the last nearly a year ago. I wasn’t far from the end; I…
17/01/2019
Just discovered Lutris [https://lutris.net/], a tool to make gaming more accessible and easy on Linux: Lutris is an open gaming platform for Linux. It helps you install and manage your games in a unified interface. Our goal is to support every game which runs on Linux, from native to Windows games (via Wine) to emulators and browser games. The desktop application and the website are libre software, your contributions are…
13/01/2019
Thanks to this tweet from @Kitao as an introduction to Pyxel, a retro gaming engine based built on Python3 I made the English version of the official introduction of Pyxel.#gamedev #IndieGameDev #python #pico8 #tic80 Let's start programming with Pyxel, a retro game engine! – kitao's blog https://t.co/Xob7DnFIjH pic.twitter.com/NzUV5HoJvE — Takashi Kitao (@kitao) November 25, 2018 This ticks 2 boxes for me, Python and Retrogaming; how could I not want to…
11/01/2019
In my quest to get sonic-pi to run on Linux, and also free up a port on my router, I’ve been trying to login to view Raspberry Pi Desktop from Ubuntu… as usual with any Linux endeavor, with limited success; but think that’s the attraction: a puzzle to solve, with a solution out there… I’ve just gotta find it 🙂 I had installed tightvncserver on the Raspberry Pi, and remmina…
09/01/2019
Linux generated techno beats I came across a self published album on Amazon from someone I follow on Twitter of 8 bit notes, and this inspired me to put together a bit of simple techno 🙂 There’s alse another passionate techy on Twitter who hosts a site full of synth and moog samples; so my plan is to get a music editor working and then add in some funky sounds.…
07/01/2019
I updated Anaconda last night… but today it wouldn’t open. Tried to update it with no luck, so tried a clean install with zero success. After scratching my head for a while I edited .bashrc as the alias was entered twice, when I had a brain wave! running alias from the terminal refreshes the aliases and now anaconda-navigator opens 🙂
07/01/2019
Update Ubuntu 18.10 to 4.20 kernel last night, all gone smooth guide here: Update linux kernel to v4.18.7 Update it with files here: kernel.ubuntu 5.0 release candidate already available! 🙂 Just installed 4.20 #Linux #Kernel on #Ubuntu 18.10 all looking good 👍https://t.co/25K5DmM53N — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) January 6, 2019
05/01/2019
2018 was an intense year personally We moved house and renovated the new place substantially. For a month or so we were living out of a single room, no kitchen or bathroom, and boarded up windows. The place is awesome now, although still a few more things we would like to update, but that can be done over time. We have fibre! 900 MB download speed, this has changed my…
05/01/2019
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…
04/01/2019
My darling wife gifted me this amazing little piece of Android based kit: nvidia shield NVIDIA SHIELD TV is the essential streaming media player for the modern living room. Thousands of apps. Thousands of games. The most 4K entertainment. And the Google Assistant built in. It’s awesome for streaming media via Netflix, Kodi, et al, and recently released high spec games (with many for free!)… but what I wanted it…
04/01/2019
As one PS4 AAA title ends with a Western sunset, another with an eclipsed sun In the past couple of weeks I’ve finished the latest AAA title in my collection: Red Dead Redemption 2; and today one that I never thought I’d complete: Dark Souls 3 Both were fun, amazing artistic achievements, but so different. I probably put in as many hours on both games, one I started in November…
While playing Red Dead Redemption 2 Online on the PS4 I entered the stable in Saint Dennis looking to see how viable an equine upgrade was, to find to my shock and glee that the Red Chestnut Arabian horse was free! Not wanting to part with Nag, my starting racehorse [for some strange reason beyond my comprehension?] I shelled over $100 in game dollars to free up another stable, and…
11/12/2018
Thanks to Tim Holt (aka @Kiwi_Mariner) for passing on a link showing that my Twitter account had made a cameo appearance and #TC18, the international Tableau Conference. I’ve a Python bot sat on a Raspberry Pi tweeting and re-tweeting about topics I’m interested in, Tableau being one of them. Check out the feed @GamerGeekNews
29/11/2018
I lost the network indicator from the Ubuntu Budgie top panel; frustrating as I couldn’t update vpn settings. Finally got around to finding a solution today as I’ve got tired of sub-optimal speed nodes: github:Restore budgie-panel to defaults\ from the terminal enter: dconf reset -f /com/solus-project/budgie-panel/ nohup budgie-panel –reset –replace&
29/11/2018
Finally Red Dead Redemption 2 Online has launched on the PS4, and I’m in to it, even though I’m only 66% through the Story mode. One mission in, 4 player game, 2 went rogue from the start… reminiscent of GTAV Online, hope I can find a posse Just played a couple of multiplayer vs games… it’s chaos much like GTAV; not sure this game mode is for me, but let’s…
Red Dead Redemption 2 on the PS4 has been taking up nearly all of my game time, with brief breaks of Overwatch to qualify for season 13. I’ve a couple of great tips to make life easier that I’ll post soon, but for now here’s a tip for a Challenge that has been alluding me. RDR2 Challenge Horseman 4 While mounted, drag a victim for 3300 feet using your Lasso…
#RDR2 #DoubleRainbow sometimes It's the little things pic.twitter.com/6lkulgPluS — Gamer Geek (@GamerGeekNews) October 27, 2018 Read Dead Redemption 2 has been out for a week and I’m sure you’ve heard how awesome it is. I write more on what I think of it at a later date, but for now here’s a list of tips that I recommend anyone reads before they begin the game. Many of them you will…
21/10/2018
I received heads up this morning from a friendly Twitter user (@adrianhungate) that my site was down and they were generously offering help to restore. Rebooting the Ubuntu VPS brought it back on-line; but why did it occur? My Duck Duck Fu turned up this useful, if not a little dated gem: Error establishing a database connection (WordPress) grep xmlrpc /var/log/apache2/access.log This showed evidence of several brute-force amplification attacks, which…
20/10/2018
Here’s a useful url with destructions of how to upgarde to Ubuntu 18.10: linuxbabe Important bit: <code>do-release-upgrade</code>