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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 08/12/2025

I'm pretty happy with this. A Raspberry Pi 5 with both a @pimoroni.com NVME Base and the Pi52 ICE Tower Plus Cooler purchased from @thepihut.bsky.social. Now all I need is a case to put it in! shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvm... thepihut.com/products/ice...

Close up of the side of a Raspberry PI 5 with a Pi52 ICE Tower Plus Cooler and Pimoroni NVME Base.

Front view of a Raspberry PI 5 with a Pi52 ICE Tower Plus Cooler and Pimoroni NVME Base.

The other side of a Raspberry PI 5 with a Pi52 ICE Tower Plus Cooler and Pimoroni NVME Base.

Raspberry PI 5 with a Pi52 ICE Tower Plus Cooler and Pimoroni NVME Base.

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 08/04/2025

The bread machine cycle: 1. Hey, look at this bread machine, we haven't used it for years. Let's make bread! 2. OMG this bread is just so delicious!!! 3. OMG I just ate 4000 calories of bread, hide the bread machine and forget it exists.

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 08/03/2025

Woken to scream from the missus, turns out the intruder was easy to deal with.

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 01/03/2025

Unexpected bonus when visiting the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park today

A Delorean casually parked at the National Museum of Computing

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 27/01/2025

One advantage of open source software is that you have the ability to find and fix a problem yourself, which can be really satisfying. However, often you just ... wait for somebody else to fix it. So anyway, the latest Pico 2 micropython firmware has fixed the SD card on my Pico-ResTouch-LCD-3.5 😀

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 19/01/2025

Had a bacon and fried egg sandwich and the egg yolk exploded and went all down my arm, and I didn't mind at all. Glorious!

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 18/01/2025

Self service tills are great, except when you need assistance, which is EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 03/01/2025

Years ago, I wanted an ISDN line. Just when it became cheap enough, Cable internet came and offered 4 times the speed for a 1/4 of the price. Similarly, it is now cheap and easy to get a VOIP telephone with tons of features - just as everybody is stopping using land lines. Still got one though 😃

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 26/12/2024

Misty at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park today

A photo of a lake in the mist with trees reflected in the water

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 23/12/2024

I feel as though there should be a prize for figuring out libnl. Just to be clear, I have NOT earned that prize yet,

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 18/12/2024

Just completed my regular sweep of the radiator thermostatic valves to turn them back down. My suggestion of a change request system did not go down well.

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 15/12/2024

I realised the network dropping out was due to the high traffic at 4am when all my backups kick in. Anyway, I have moved the server to a different switch port and last night no drop out.🤞

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 13/12/2024

Apparently I'm not "normal" because I like to keep my iPhone battery between 30% and 70%

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 13/12/2024

I migrated some VMs from Xen to Qemu/KVM and they stopped working over night. I angrily went down to reboot the server but it turned out to be a dodgy connection to the switch. The migration continues...

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 13/12/2024

The circle is complete. Started with KDE about 20 years ago, then switched to Gnome, Xfce, and then Mate. Now, back to KDE. Just installed it in my new laptop and it is rather nice.

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 12/12/2024

Placeholder for an extremely amusing pithy remark

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 10/12/2024

UPS successfully carried my new laptop 6000 miles from China, but failed the last 4 miles from the local depot 😡. Oh well, maybe tomorrow...

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 09/12/2024

Why are my jumbo frames not working? Because my switch that says it supports jumbo frames DOES NOT support jumbo frames. arrrrrgh

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 08/12/2024

Wow, backing up 5.5TB to a USB hard disk takes a lot longer than you might think. Over 12 hours at 120MB/s...

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 05/12/2024

Yes, I have a bit of a problem.

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 03/12/2024

Reflecting on the fact that I did not discover houmous until my late forties. What other amazing food am I not aware of?!

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 30/11/2024

I love the Linux bridge vlan functionality and I've cooked up a very rough patch for libvirtd to let you put each virtual machine on a different (or more than one) vlan using nothing more than a single iproute2 bridge. Now to do a bit more testing.

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 30/11/2024

Outrageous! My wife's Christmas party today and it will be just her and the IT guy. Okay, she's self employed and I'm the IT guy, but still...

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 29/11/2024

Thanks, but no thanks, I guess??

Screen shot of permission denied error for Lenovo "thank you for your order" web page

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 27/11/2024

Just got a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W and plugged it in to my Pico-ResTouch-LCD-3.5. Display output works but the sdcard isn't working. Further investigation required...

Pico 2 W connected to Pico-ResTouch-LCD-3.5

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 26/11/2024

The combination of a microwave and air fryer is a powerful thing. Crispy hash browns in 6 minutes!

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 25/11/2024

My rules for cream on scones are quite simple: if the density of the cream is equal to or greater than that of butter, it goes below the jam, otherwise above the jam.

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Leigh Brown @lbb.moonstrc.uk · 24/11/2024

Started playing Alien Isolation again and I knows it a program, I've watched the YouTube videos on how the AI works, but I still get terrified playing it!

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