Oldie but goodie

Switch to LaunchBox

Over the last week or so, my attempts to create a really straight forward retro gaming systems took a number of unanticipated twists and turns. As documented in my previous post, it started out with installing the latest version of Linux Mint on an older Intel Core i5-based laptop and then overlaying that with RetroPie. […]

Echo Show Gen 1

Just upgraded our kitchen Echo from a cheap Dot to the first-generation Echo Sow. At $129 (now through then end of Amazon Prime week) it’s a bit of a no brainier upgrade. The sound quality isn’t quite a rich as the Bose we had the Dot connected to, but it’s pretty decent and a lot […]

Spectre and Meltdown

All my systems are patched up for Spectre and Meltdown. The performance impact isn’t noticeable on my laptop and main desktop as in general they’re lightly used. However, on one of my Win 10 development systems were I have quite a few Docker containers running, the hit was sizable! All my CPUs are pre-Haswell (2015), […]