{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Mark Twomey","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/Storagezilla","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1786642","username":"Storagezilla","bio":"I mess around with consumer technology and read a lot. I've been fortunate to turn that curiosity into making a living at technology companies like EMC, Veeam, and AWS, usually in information and data protection roles where I help people store, analyze, and protect their information. Those places have their own blogs, but this one (like my opinions) is mine. Here you'll find movie, TV, and book reviews alongside posts about whatever piece of tech in my house I'm currently struggling to make work. You can follow this blog on the Fediverse at @Storagezilla@storagezilla.xyz","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":7,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Mark Twomey","url":"https://www.storagezilla.xyz/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/21/1786642.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"89840240","content_html":"

I bought a hybrid seven years ago after finding exactly one working EV charger on my longest drive. The charging infrastructure has improved since, but the hybrid has come into its own during the Iran war. You don’t realise how fuel-efficient it is until you see the price at the pump today.

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I’ve started using Apple’s Downtime feature to put some friction between work-related apps and me. If I don’t, I’m in Slack all weekend. I’m not a surgeon and don’t need to be that available. The implementation is coarse, but it’s sort of working.

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We’ve moved on from warm halogen bulbs to an array of LEDs. Hopefully tonight’s Lumie Bodyclock sunset will be more golden than the fluorescent white I’ve been putting up with.

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So I created an iOS app for Friendster, and I made it so that in order to connect with someone as a friend, you have to actually tap phones together in real life.

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Bringing back Friendster seems like a lark. But Supabase rate limiting showed up to spoil the post registration fun.

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Only the delete key can save Windows 11: storagezilla.xyz

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Token-based billing for AI is inevitable. The subsidies won’t continue. With the drive to use AI where I work, I can’t imagine the token bill versus the payroll. If interns start becoming a thing in tech again, it’ll be because they’re cheaper.

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The Commodore 64C took a four-year-old motherboard and put it in a nicer box. Anonymous beige, beautifully so, wrapped around the same clapped out guts. Now they’ve found the original moulds and dropped an FPGA inside. Took me ten seconds to to preorder one.

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Hitting snooze on sunrise: storagezilla.xyz

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@alexgalbraith Hahahahaha!

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The worst thought about dropping off my old electronics for recycling is they end up in a landfill in some other nation. But European law seems strict on this. Now to wipe any lingering personal data first. If they’ll even power up.

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The Downgrade: storagezilla.xyz

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@alexgalbraith Every SaaS purchase starts with good intentions. Then you have a mountain of good intentions and a mountain of a SaaS bill.

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As poorly as Westworld season 3 is regarded by large parts of the audience, I liked Engerraund Serac as the antagonist. He wanted to build a system of invisible control to prevent human extinction. He succeeded up until the moment he failed. Today’s corporate AI plans are heading the same way.

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It’s remarkable to me how connecting to hotel wifi isn’t standardised. The password could be your room number, a captive portal asking for your room number. Or, as here, a code that appears when you turn on the hotel TV. Which I never do, because of streaming.

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Computing started out expensive and then got cheap. Now it’s becoming expensive again. People need to get back into their garages to develop affordable personal computers, using parts the AI providers have no need for. We did it during the 8-Bit computing era. We can do it again.

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The RAM shortage could last years

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According to Nikkei Asia, even as suppliers ramp up DRAM production, manufacturers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027. SK Group chairman has even said that shortages could last until 2030.

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Planned a two-hour Dungeons & Dragons session but since we haven’t played in months it takes 20 minutes just to get everyone back up to speed. The grand finale then becomes “You open the door two doors away from the boss… and we’ll leave it there for tonight.”

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Lana Del Rey’s “First Light” has a better title sequence than most contemporary Bond films.

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In Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead two famous nothings hurtle towards a Shakespearean end. Watching them question their reality when offstage from Hamlet has some interest, but it’s a slog to get to their hangings. “The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.” 🎬

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Because Dune 3 has every IMAX screen locked this Christmas, Disney have gone the “Corinthian Leather” approach for Avengers Doomsday. They’ve invented a brand certification: Infinity Vision. That non-IMAX screen with its laser projector and Dolby 7.1 surround? It’s “Infinity Vision.”

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Setting up an AI to GM a two-player play-by-email RPG for myself and a friend.\nIt would take less time to just make more friends.

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The G5: storagezilla.xyz

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Every time I go to Las Vegas the place looks more and more clapped out. $25 for a bottle of water in your hotel room and the entertainment is a stage show from someone who was popular in 2005. Online gambling must have been incredibly disruptive for Vegas.

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I just turned on third-party integration in WhatsApp, an EU interoperability mandate, and now people on BirdyChat and Haiket can message me. One is business only and the other is in waitlist preview. I don’t expect a blizzard of messages. Or any.

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Watched: Deadwax Season 1 📺 A short form horror for vinyl record lovers. Like The Ninth Gate a tracker gets drawn into assembling a cursed item at the behest of an obsessed wealthy person. This is soaked in noir dread that builds through the episodes. A good supernatural mystery.

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Oil prices are going to be high for a while to come and there will be no quick end to the Iran war.

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Trump orders US naval blockade of Strait of Hormuz

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US President Donald Trump has ordered a US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in response to Iran’s “unyielding” refusal to give up its nuclear ambitions during peace talks in Islamabad.\n…\nYesterday, the US military announced that two US warships had transited the strait at the start of a mine clearance operation.

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Small language, big world: storagezilla.xyz

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The real heat in Ireland’s fuel protests isn’t the Iran war, it’s the rising carbon tax. We’re told it’s ringfenced for climate action, except the base rate of €20 a ton isn’t. The only climate target the state is on track with is the tax take.

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@steveintro I miss how fast news got to me on X. But the flood of Bot nonsense was unstoppable. I won’t miss that.

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@jacobasker Nice post. Get out of tutorial mode as soon as you can. The moment you’re building a “real thing” your learning speeds up, because you hit the issues you never thought of before.

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@jimmitchell Working great! Thanks for the fast turn around.

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@jimmitchell Working great! Thanks for the fast turn around.

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@manton That’s sent. AI analysis of the hang file included. Because these days everyone is a junior developer.

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@manton Launch version ran fine. After the latest update it now hangs on open. Tahoe 26.3.1 on an M1.

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@gar Check out their YouTube channel to see if any of the new stuff looks interesting.

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