Paul Stockton

Proud parent moment with my son winning the Trainee of the Year award

Lovely Easter morning walk
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With the very sad news that Bonnie Tyler has passed away today I shall be listening to this amazing compilation of the great Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler.

Heaven & Hell by Meat Loaf & Bonnie Tyler on Apple Music https://music.apple.com/gb/album/heaven-hell/251988256

Interested to see what Apple is going to do with the HomePod this year.
The Sonos Era 100 SL I got to replace another faulty HomePod mini in my office has been a breath of fresh air - crystal clear sound, I AirPlay all my music and podcasts to it and use the 3.5mm line-in to get desktop sound from my gaming PC.

I'd be tempted to get more Sonos speakers but need to see if Apple give us a better HomePod with Siri AI as that makes it more useful - we rely on HomePods + HomeKit to control Hue lights throughout the house.

@imyke@myke.social thank you for persuading me to try Sonos.

I also love this Beige colour Bose Lifestyle Ultra: https://www.bose.co.uk/p/speakers/bose-lifestyle-ultra-speaker/LSULT-SPEAKERWIRELESS.html?dwvar_LSULT-SPEAKERWIRELESS_color=BLACK&quantity=1

Sonos ERA 100 SL: https://www.sonos.com/en-gb/shop/era-100-sl

iPhone battery life is noticeably more "normal" with #iOS27 beta 3

To quote Tim Cook:

"John Ternus has the mind of an engineer, the soul of an innovator, and the heart to lead with integrity and with honor."

Let's see if John Ternus can lead with integrity and honor a hell of a lot better than Tim Apple has been doing recently with his best buddy in the White House...

At which point does the orange fuckwit realise that space missions would've been a much better way to distract everyone from the Epstein files than going to "war"...

Bonnie Tyler has died 😢

Well I've bit the bullet and installed CachyOS on my gaming PC dual boot with Windows 11.

Prettt quick and painless, installed Steam in seconds, it already has the latest Nvidia drivers installed so I'm now installing ARC Raiders to play in 4K and see what the graphics and performance is like 👍🏻

Here is the other one for comparison...

I need to boot back into Windows and screenshot all my ARC Raiders settings so I can run it on CachyOS exactly the same.

By default it loaded on all EPIC settings and I tried the practice range out.

Bloody impressed that within a couple of hours I've dual booted to CachyOS, installed Steam and a game and it's all just working so far without all the Windows bloatware in the background.

One of these is ARC Raiders running on Windows 11, the other is running on CachyOS with the exact same 4K graphic settings inside the game.