After much deliberation I decided to purchase a new keyboard. I looked at a lot of different brands and models. I knew I didn’t want a mini keyboard, and I was pretty sure that I wanted a num pad since I have always had one. Also, mechanical switches were a…
Category: Hobbies
Fun things.
Setting up the new PC
Moving stuff over from the old PC to the new PC is pretty painless these days with all of the cloud storage available. The fact that I am kind of a minimalist makes that easier too, however loading and setting up applications that cannot simply be moved from one computer…
A new project coming very soon
I have some spare web hosting and domain names lying around, so I have decided to give something a try: I am going to host a tech-centric (but not necessarily all computer related) blog and invite other people to post there too. We’ll see how it goes. Stay tuned…
Finally using the new PC
It took a while to get the new PC assembled, and then a while longer to get everything I needed moved over from the old PC, but I am finally using the new PC fulltime. So far, so good! The new PC is beyond noticeably faster than the old one….
Building the PC
A couple of months ago, I finally purchased the components to build my next PC. I have been gradually assembling it, and I have been finding that either this is a lot more difficult than I remember it being, or these things have become more complex in the decade (plus)…
The (monetary) cost of geekery
I have been thinking about building a new PC for quite a while. The one that I am currently using is quite old and there is no path to upgrading the existing hardware. With that in mind, I have been pricing new hardware, but as is typical for me I…