The MacBook Pro is still alive
09:47 AM on Friday 02 June 2023

The build quality of the MacBook Pro is really quite amazing. Took out my old early 2015 13" MacBook Pro and it still runs really well. Upgraded the operating system, cleaned it up a bit and it looks amazing for a 8 year old laptop.

Cleaned up my desk
08:05 PM on Sunday 28 May 2023

Got a new stand for the monitor which had a laptop holder at the side as well as a new microphone stand. The setup looks so much neater now. So I forgot about the issue with the PreSonus Eris 3.5 which was not able to turn on. The last time this happened, the speakers turned back on after a night. S ...

The Ring Fit is finally in use
09:09 PM on Sunday 21 May 2023

I got Pauline the Ring Fit a couple of years ago and it has been sitting in a box since. Today it has finally seen the light. It is actually quite fun and tiring. Quite a workout.

Nice titles in screen
12:12 PM on Sunday 21 May 2023

I use GNU screen a lot since I work on remote servers via SSH. I realised that on RedHat system, the title of the windows have very useful information like the username, host and path. In Ubuntu, there is nothing but just the shell name like bash. Took a lot of searching but the fix is actually qu ...

The perfect pasta fork
01:08 PM on Saturday 20 May 2023

The Japanese really like to create purpose build items like this pasta fork at Daiso which is apparently perfect.

Pauline gave me lego figurines
07:30 PM on Monday 15 May 2023

Pauline gave me this really cool photo frame of lego super heroes. Here it is on my work desk.

Esther made me a cake
08:24 PM on Saturday 13 May 2023

Esther made me a birthday cake which was a bit too dense. But definitely effort there. She also got me a stuffed duck keychain which I used to have many many moons ago. It is unbelievable that they still make this. https://suntoys.com.sg/collections/my-yellow-duck/products/suntoys-yellow-duck-keycha ...

Birthday lunch
12:23 PM on Saturday 13 May 2023

Pauline and I had a good time at Wooloomooloo for my birthday.

Hot Mac mini
07:31 AM on Wednesday 10 May 2023

Just realised the other day that the Mac mini gets really hot. So took out the thermal sensor and took a photo. It is really crazy hot, surface temp is about 47.1 degrees Celsius.

New thermal grease for the RTX 2080 TI
03:45 PM on Sunday 07 May 2023

The old RTX 2080 TI will be transferred to Esther's computer. But before that, a new application of thermal grease.

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