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A photo of an Xbox One X sitting on a wooden shelf.

This is a photo of an Xbox One that's had a full teardown and thermal paste replacement, and it was a smashing success. \o/ I think the last time I applied thermal paste to anything would have been something like 15 years ago.

The fans were getting really noisy when doing 4K/HDR gaming and given we're getting the new Xbox Series X tomorrow, I figured I'd fix it now and in the worst case scenario that I broke it, I wouldn't be without an Xbox for long. :P (Also I didn't want to sell it with it being that noisy).

Posted on 10 November 2020, 22:05

A photo of a small LCD display showing indoor and outdoor temperature, how much power we're consuming and producing from the solar panels, and the battery charge percentage. Next to the percentage is a green up arrow that indicates it's being charged, if it's discharging it changes to a red down arrow.

I have of course updated my little Pi display to pull data from the Powerwall, and added the battery charge percentage and whether it's charging or discharging. 😎

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Posted on 30 October 2020, 9:45

A photo of a small e-ink display on a shelf showing the current outdoor and indoor temperatures, plus current power consumption and production in kilowatts.

Updated my Raspberry Pi e-ink temperature display to be easier to read, and it also now includes our power consumption and production!

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Posted on 14 May 2020, 13:05

A photo of a small e-ink display showing indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity, but the information is sized for the old 2" display and it looks very silly now.

Woohoo, the 2.7" e-ink display I ordered finally arrived! Now I just need to update my setup that feeds it information because it looks utterly ridiculous right now. 😂

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Posted on 12 May 2020, 13:06

A photo of the front of a stand-alone backyard room. The front of it is primarily glass with a painted wood frame (door in the middle, two full-length windows on either side), and the paint is peeling and the wood isn't in very good condition.

While I'm in a doing-stuff mood, my next project is attempting to at least slightly de-fuck the awfully-built back room in our backyard. It was either a DIY job or the tradies who did it should be ashamed of themselves. I'm going to try to sand and repaint the wood because it's peeling and the wood is gappy.

our house diy renovations photos.app

Posted on 4 April 2020, 18:05

A photo of a white desk with a 27 iMac in the middle, a 24” Dell to the left, and a 15” MacBook Pro sitting in front of the Dell. There’s an ergonomic mechanical keyboard in front of the iMac.

Woot, working from home setup is complete! I made myself a wooden iMac riser this afternoon so there was more space for my new keyboard (previously the iMac was sitting on large foam blocks).

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Posted on 19 March 2020, 22:45