https://minskio.co.uk/Recent content on MinskioHugo -- gohugo.ioen-gbFri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/reading-list/Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:49:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/reading-list/I generally strive for a book per week, but this is by no means a steadfast goal. For a list of series and their status, check the bottom of this page. Works in Progress R L Stine - Say Cheese and Die Monica Hughes - The Dream Catcher To keep the page somewhat manageable, I’ve collapsed the lists by years: 2026 0 Iain M Banks - Surface Detail Ted Hughes - The Iron Man Stephen King - Carrie John Scalzi - When the Moon Hits Your Eye John Scalzi - Starter Villain Stephen King - From a Buick 8 John Scalzi - The Shattering Peace Becky Chambers - A Psalm for the Wild-Built Matt Dinniman - Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman - Carl's Doomsday Scenario Edgar Allan Poe - The Masque of the Red Death 2025 64 Stephen R Donaldson - This Day All Gods Die Stephen King - The Breathing Method Stephen King - The Body Stephen King - Apt Pupil HG Wells - The Island of Doctor Moreau Stephen King - Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Becky Chambers - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Stephen King - Fair Extension Becky Chambers - A Closed and Common Orbit Stephen King - Big Driver Stephen King - A Good Marriage Becky Chambers - Record of a Spaceborn Few Stephen King - 1922 Becky Chambers - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within Josh Malerman - Bird Box Josh Malerman - Malorie Stephen King - Mr.https://minskio.co.uk/quotes/Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:06:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/quotes/Quotes I’ve found in and around the Internet, collected because they make me smile. Check the page source if you want to see some commented sources. 7/11 was a part time job Abandon hope all ye who enter here Abort, she’s onto us A friend to all is a friend to none A little bit of everything, all of the time Ambition makes you look pretty ugly And I say your 3 cent titanium tax doesn’t go too far enough Apply the handbrake ya dumb broad A priest, a minister and a rabbit walk into a blood bank.https://minskio.co.uk/music/Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:14:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/music/This page is purely for reference, as detailed in this post. While Spotify has 99.9% of songs you’d want, there are some unusual omissions that I’ve collapsed in a list below. Missing Tracks 2 Tin Foil Phoenix - Ms Genova VAST - Pretty When You Cry Artist Title 10cc Dreadlock Holiday 3TEETH PUMPED UP KICKS 99 Souls The Girl Is Mine ABBA SOS AFI Miss Murder AFI The Boy Who Destroyed The World aguagu11, Lapis Aoki while (money>0) Air Traffic Charlotte Airways Reckless Tongue AJR, Rivers Cuomo Sober Up Akira Yamaoka, Edgar Rothermich Silent Hill Theme Alabama 3 Woke Up This Morning Alanis Morissette Head over Feet Alcest Sapphire Alela Diane Émigré Alice In Chains Down In A Hole Alice In Chains Them Bones Alice In Chains Would?https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bloody-missed/Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bloody-missed/I was playing a hex grid based strategy games reluctantly with a few of my friends in their living room. I was playing on their big screen TV and both of them were playing on laptops. The game grid was hex based however I was moving a character with WASD in third person so was struggling with the tiles and how it was ambigous as to which direction you would go if you went ‘forwards’ into a fork.https://minskio.co.uk/javascript-uri-decoder/Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:46:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/javascript-uri-decoder/I couldn’t find a easily usable one online that didn’t need to submit a form so just ended up writing my own.https://minskio.co.uk/2026-new-years-resolutions/Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:54:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/2026-new-years-resolutions/Another year, another list. Plenty of duplicates from last year! Continue NixOS journey - work in progress repo Finish SF Masterworks series Finish Norwegian Duolingo course Finish the Yorkshire Three Peaks (Ingleborough) Start (and document) warm and brown for lunches Sub 75kg weight Walk the Calderdale Wayhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/curry-extractor/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/curry-extractor/I was at a friend’s house where he was living in a large but run down apartment. We were getting ready for a night out and I had brought round a couple of CDs to add to his gigantic CD multi changer. It was the size of two large book cases, beige and needed to be unlocked with a key he kept on his keyring. As he opened the doors for it, jewel cases went in one side and you fed in discs to an elaborate array of spinning platters on the other.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/russian-park/Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/russian-park/I was in a snowy Russian town where you had to walk down a hill to get to a park below. In this park there were 4 burned out, or otherwise damaged and mangled cars in a row however there were still kids playing around in the park. Inside these cars were photos and artefacts from the drivers of the cats who had died, like their wallets, shoes and Polaroid photos of them and their families scattered in and around the broken glass.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/computational-incantation/Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/computational-incantation/I was in a gloomy city where there were large monsters that would invade the space from time to time. Nobody really knew where they came from however it was understood they could be summoned by nefarious people. These monsters were extremely dangerous and the best advide for the public was to get well out of their way. There was however a team of people who used retro looking wrist mounted computers with CRT screens and beige keyboards that you could enter magical incantations called prompts into that would weaken the monsters in certain ways before a final incantation would defeat them at last.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/victorian-waterworks/Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/victorian-waterworks/I was navigating my way through an elaborate Victorian era stone waterway system which comprised of large tunnels, rusty machinery, lakes edged by green valleys, aquaducts and waterfalls. I was in the process of walking along a dried up water ducts made of this same Victorian era stone work. It was raining throughout the dream, however it was only towards the end that a huge tide of muddy water started to chase us down with different parts of this structure filling at different rates, closing off exits to the left and right with the unending flow of water.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/prisoner-telepathy/Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/prisoner-telepathy/This dream had a twinge of the Green Mile, magic and redemption. There was a soft spoken, but burley black guy who had been imprisoned for a crime he hadn’t commit. He was able to somehow talk psychically with an effeminate lawyer type via a kind of invisible pouch he could open on his waist. If the prisoner was left alone, and ignored, and no progress was made on his case he would fall further and further into this pouch literally being further and further from freedom.https://minskio.co.uk/defaulting-a-tp-link-managed-switch/Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:43:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/defaulting-a-tp-link-managed-switch/At work I recently came across a locked down TP-Link managed switch. I could access the password interface using a web browser but the password had already been set and there’s no reset button on the device itself. No matter, a bit of searching and I found how to default these using the console port and a serial cable. Firstly you’re going to want to find your COM address, then connect to it with the following options:https://minskio.co.uk/gamma-horizon-bank-holiday-schedules/Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:31:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/gamma-horizon-bank-holiday-schedules/It’s not too often that I need to bulk import bank holidays into a Horizon account, however when I do I like to do it as simply as possible. What I’ve compiled below are the bank holiday dates for the UK next couple of years, compiled from this goverment resource. What I like to do is copy the first column, alt-tab to enter it as the name, then alt-tab back, copy the second column, alt-tab back to Horizon then tab x3, paste, tab x2, paste before finally clicking Create.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/supermarket-stick-up/Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/supermarket-stick-up/I was in an supermarket that looked as though it had come straight from the early 90’s, shopping in one corner near rows of freezers and a cargo lift when there was suddenly a lot of commotion. I turned around to investigate and it appeared as though the shop was in the process of being robbed by multiple masked assailants. The group then began to fan out through the shop to try and control the shoppers.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/gazebo-grant/Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/gazebo-grant/I was at my girlfriends parents house with her family and my dad for some reason. Her younger brother was cooking on a BBQ grill and then serving that food in tubes of bamboo segments with the tougher green skin sliced away. I’d offered to help with this job, so me and my dad were delicately hacking away at raw bamboo shoots with machetes. My girlfriends brother then declared this was a slow way of doing the job then produced a plastic gadget that you’d feed bamboo lengths into, then intricately set up guides for, and then run a small plastic chainsaw over multiple times until the thick bark layer was removed but the finished product was rough and splintered.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/life-of-nick/Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/life-of-nick/I was living in a large modern house set back from the main road, surrounded by trees where the boundry to the property was encircled by a dry stone wall. My life was being narrated by Nick Offerman very much like the movie Life of Chuck. A group of assassin’s for whatever reason had tried killing me with flimsy silver guns. There was a mix of handguns and bolt action rifles, both using iron sights and both were silenced.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/swedish-farmhouse/Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/swedish-farmhouse/I was holidaying in Sweden and had somehow arranged to stay in ia mostly dilapidated stone farmhouse with attached barn. The barn was owned by a stereotypical looking metal band who had used it to record the music video to the song Instability by Dragged Under. The main building space was empty with a dirt floor however there was a small room to the side with three lit open fires in each wall that functioned as a boiler room cum chimney.https://minskio.co.uk/gamma-horizon-provisioning-strings/Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:54:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/gamma-horizon-provisioning-strings/It’s almost like all I do is work these days! Anyway, here’s all the provisioning strings I’ve collected for Gamma Horizon devices over the years. You shouldn’t really ever need these but if you do you’ll be glad you have them. http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_122/122.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_192/192.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_232/232.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_501d/501.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_502d/502.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_504d/504.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_509d/509.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_525d/525.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_6851/6851.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_7832/7832.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_8841/8841.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_8851/8851.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Cisco_8861/8861.xml http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Poly_E100 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Poly_E550 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Polycom_Trio8500 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Polycom_Trio8800 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Polycom_VVX150 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Polycom_VVX250 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Polycom_VVX310 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Polycom_VVX410 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Polycom_VVX411 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Polycom_VVX450 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Polycom_VVX500 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Polycom_VVX600 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Polycom_VVX601 http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Yealink_T46U http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Yealink_W52P http://xsp.unlimitedhorizon.co.uk/dms/Yealink_W73P If you’re after passwords once provisioned, try either DL4DB4JS or DB4JO4IM.https://minskio.co.uk/decimal-overtime-calculator/Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:48:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/decimal-overtime-calculator/My workplace has a quirky rule when it comes to submitting overtime, everything needs to be calculated in decimal hours. While this isn’t especially taxing as far as mathmatical problems go I have built a bash script to do this, however I’d prefer not to SSH into a server to run a bit of maths, or grab a calculator so here’s the same thing in simple JavaScript: Start Time: End Time: Custom cutoffs Morning: Evening:https://minskio.co.uk/windows-path-without-admin-rights/Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:37:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/windows-path-without-admin-rights/I was recently given a new (albeit more locked down) work laptop and wanted to amend my PATH variable to use some common command line tools I usually end up installing. My usual process is to fire up sysdm.cpl, and hit up “Environmental Variables” under the “Advanced” tab and edit it from there, however this now requires admin permissions, and providing these amends the admin users path, not your current user.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/jamaican-flyover/Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/jamaican-flyover/I was waiting for a bus at a roofed bus stop in a city when I heard a fly by of jet aircraft. I’d only recently seen the red arrows in real life flying by, so looked upwards gazing around not seeing anything. After about ten seconds however a formation of red arrows escorting a large black fighter jet flew by while people around me gasped and pointed. I was about to ask my girlfriend to check what the large black aircraft was when a Jamaican guy who was also waiting for the bus exclaimed in admiration “look at that 1820 Raddo-raster” while pointing.https://minskio.co.uk/horizon-bulk-csv-generator/Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:26:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/horizon-bulk-csv-generator/I had a bit of a thought recently that each time I generate a bulk upload CSV file for Horizon I spend more time copy and pasting data to-and-from Excel and notepad versus actually inputting data so I threw together a bulk upload generator. Domain: Extension Range: Include Devices Download CSVhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/advertising-cops/Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/advertising-cops/I was in Florida with a group of people I didn’t really know. We were all students in a kind of college course where the final test of the semester was to come up with an advertising speil. I hadn’t prepared at all, however all the other students presentations were very dry so I wasn’t too concerned. When it got to my time, I spent the first minute very shakily reitterating the initial brief while reading through it before flourishing the advert, making wild claims, puns, advances to the teacher and making the other students laugh.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/egyptian-keris/Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/egyptian-keris/I was in an Egyptian themed bedroom room on a four poster bed with silken drapes adorning the corners. The room was actually pyramid shaped and focused to a point in the ceiling. There was a women also dressed in a silken dress who would offer a selection of weapons from a rotating holographic lazy Susan. There were knives that weren’t butterfly knives but physically shaped like literal butterflies, sabres and a keris.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bear-woods/Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bear-woods/I was at a wooded camp site in Norway where most of the people there had pet bears that acted for the most part like dogs. I was there walking along a tree lined path with my girlfriend. There were a large number of (evidently unused) shovels stuck in the ground, as there were also a large number of heaps of bear shit on the path. As we looked through the tree line, we saw into various tent and caravan areas where families were happily playing games like fetch and walking their brown and black bears on leads.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/meaty-pallet/Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/meaty-pallet/I was collecting some items for work from a large warehouse in Lancashire. When I arrived I was told there was a full pallet to collect and then went off to sort some paperwork that needed signing. I tried to explain I only need a few items that should only come to around the size of a medium box but was shown a pallet full of junk items that had been ordered wrong and were just sat there waiting indefinitely.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/barn-conversion/Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/barn-conversion/I was working on a barn conversion with my old boss, we were turning the roof rafter space into a modern office. He has grandiose ideas about removing a load of supports that were getting in the way and removing an entire row of stone bricks and having a wraparound window that went around the entire building. There was also a turret section in one corner that would house his desk that needed the floor lowering as well.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/ghost-lineup/Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/ghost-lineup/I was in an old abandoned house that was also inhabited by a large number of ghosts. They were mostly harmless however if you riled them up for whatever reason there was a possibility that they could attack you. The group of people I was with would take it in turns to walk safe premade paths through this house, documenting the changes to the ghosts inside with video cameras. There was an old couple of ghosts that didn’t realize they were dead and just wanted to talk to you, so you had to walk quickly away from them otherwise you’d be trapped in a conversation that would never end.https://minskio.co.uk/migrating-from-cgit-to-stagit/Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:57:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/migrating-from-cgit-to-stagit/I’ve used cgit for quite some time now and while it works for the most part it doesn’t seem to work …all that well. Every now and again I’ll get errors like “An error occurred while reading CGI reply (no response received)” when opening repositories where the contents haven’t changed for months or the container I use won’t be able to be restarted without being recreated first. This is probably not helped by me syncing all of these directories via syncthing, running cgit in a docker container or any number of other things but I’d like to try something simpler and a little lighter if possible.https://minskio.co.uk/rude-roads/Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:25:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/rude-roads/Posts are looking a little light on the ground this year around, have a small yet low-stakes list of some of the rude roads I’ve seen while driving around: Bell End, Wollaston, Wellingborough Blue Ball Road, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge Butt Lane, Leeds Fanny Hands Lane, Ludford, Market Rasenhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/roadkill-otter/Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/roadkill-otter/I was in Australia with Beau Miles and he was showing me how to prepare different wild game, and incidentally discussing a time when he ate a dolphin. We were walking together along a highway and he exclaimed that in the distance he could see a dead bird laying by the side of the road before discussing what to do with the potential meal. As we walked closer to it, he mentioned that we were coming up on one of his preferred delicacy aisles, which happened to be a small fenced in yard housing an otter which he summarily killed with a thin long blade.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/salon-break-in/Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/salon-break-in/I was working at a hair dressing salon with another engineer that was being renovated shortly before reopening. We were working upstairs, running cables and the bottom floor was ready to go live. We were leaving the left the building at the end of the day using the back door and as we walked around to the front of the building a gang of yobs were trying to break in by kicking down a section of wall without much luck.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/clockwork-boy/Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/clockwork-boy/I’d been roped into helping a punk rock gang cover up a double murder in Whitby on the abbey hillside, there was a body in a layby and another on top of the hill in the abbey grounds. While all of this was going on I was trying to inform the police while not drawing attention to what I was doing. Eventually the police arrived and there was a final showdown in an old fashioned pub down an alleyway in Whitby town that was full of these stereotypical 80’s punk rock gang members.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/arcade-landlord/Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/arcade-landlord/I was in Huddersfield with a few of my friends at a rented house near an arcade that was being let by a bitter old lady who didn’t seem to like our group from the moment she saw us. She would start arguments and complain about little things like leaving an empty bowl of soup near a couch while still being sat on said couch. To try remedy this I took the empty bowl to an outside tap to rinse it with water but as I crouched down and started filling the bowl I was pushed over by the woman who then started arguing with me resulting in her swinging at me with a gardening tool in her hand as a makeshift knuckle duster.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/shrinking-wig/Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/shrinking-wig/I was in a world with about 50 or so people, the world around us was gradually shrinking and had been for a few months. There was a family who were there with about 5 kids who were by far the largest single group and were arguing and trying to burn down some of the abandoned buildings. Me and an older guy managed to convince them to remain together as an uneasy group.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/food-machines/Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/food-machines/I was in a world where traditional farming and agriculture wasn’t sustainable any more, so scientists from the OECD had invented a machine where pretty much anything that contained calories could be fed into a machine then it would extract the raw materials needed, and then produce foodstuffs based on recipes contained in that machine. The machines were huge so you’d only get one per town, so you were pretty much forced to either use the machines, struggle to grow your own food or just go without.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/geothermal-platform/Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/geothermal-platform/I was off the coast of Exeter at an abandoned oil platform in the sea. The weather there wasn’t bad and you could access the platform quite easily just walking from the coast then jumping over low lying rocks in the sea. The easily accessible part was just a flat platform that was now being used as an ice skating rink however there were more floors below that were harder to access.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/gin-bar/Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/gin-bar/I was at an old friends house preparing for a night out, and having a few pre-drinks. The was an undercurrent of young versus old in the group with the younger members having to return home for 4am, whereas the older members were allowed to stay out until 5. This age gap sometimes just came down to a couple of months. We arrived in town and entered an extremely fancy gin bar.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/walter-hotel/Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/walter-hotel/I was in an abandoned and dilapidated hotel in an asian country like Thailand. The hotel was in the middle of nowhere set in a forest that bordered the sea. There were guards who were there mainly just for show and didn’t actively do much to keep you there due to the isolation of the place. There was also a female warden with long black hair that was tied in thick ornate knots hiding.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dilly-desk/Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dilly-desk/I was working in an estate agents that happened to have a brother and sister working there. Originally I was there for a telephone system fault however it was a fault with the lines and they’re was also no power so it was mostly a wasted visit. I was getting on well with the pair so we’d agreed to go out into town drinking after the shop had closed for the day however due to the power cut everything in the town as closed as well.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/little-togo/Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/little-togo/I was alone at my parents house in my old bedroom when I saw a little monkey like animal that could speak. It said it’s name was Togo and when asked to leave it just wouldn’t, offering excuses and then running away from me. I picked it up and by the scruff of its neck and uncerimoneously threw it out of the door after carrying it downstairs. My parents then appeared and told me off for being so rough with Togo as it continued to taunt me and dance around after repeatedly being thrown out of the house but returning shortly afterwards.https://minskio.co.uk/2025-new-years-resolutions/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:06:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/2025-new-years-resolutions/Another year, another list. Late and adventurous this time! 6 month wardrobe review Delete all listened to audiobooks Empty the freezer Finish SF Masterworks series Finish Norwegian Duolingo course Finish the Yorkshire Three Peaks (Ingleborough) Merge dotfiles, dockerfiles and infrastructure under NixOS - work in progress repo Start warm and brown for lunches Start rucking/treadmilling again Sub 75kg weight Walk the Calderdale Wayhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/snape-shoes/Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/snape-shoes/I was shopping for my lunch in a Morrison’s supermarket with a colleague from work. There wasn’t a lot of space near the entrance and I ended up bumping into someone with my trolly to which they they replied saying it was fine but called me Jessica, which my colleague found hilarious. At the threshold of the vegetable section where the gates were was a tall female security guard who looked a lot like Alan Rickman playing Snape in Harry Potter so being a little cheeky my colleague asked for a selfie.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/greased-bird/Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/greased-bird/I was returning from a holiday in a Mediterranean town that featured cobbled streets and terracotta tiled roofs, trying to arrange an airport transfer at a small office with white UPVC windows when there was word amongst the staff and customers waiting of some kind of black creature loose on the streets. Most people immediately starting running away but I decided to stay and help with a friend of mine from the pub quiz.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/blowpipe-funeral/Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/blowpipe-funeral/I was in a hall with other people milling around before some kind of a party started. I didn’t know at the time however it ended up being a funeral for an old lady I didn’t know either. This detail was only revealed when a large white cloth covering her portrait was ceremonially dropped. I was then given a heavy piece of green painted metal and a scraggy looking pillow with an embroidered cat on it for no real reason.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/mightiest-mouse/Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/mightiest-mouse/I was in an old pub playing pool with an incomplete set of balls which meant we had to remove some from both sides to even out things. When the table was set up the pool triangle was also set at a jaunty angle. We broke the rack and while playing noticed there was a children’s stop motion TV show on a large wall mounted TV about a mouse who went on adventures in the mountains wearing a green shirt and the theme song mentioned “a mighty mouse, with the purest heart”.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/coastal-rescue/Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/coastal-rescue/I was at a house on the American coast with some non-descript family members that weren’t my actual family. To get to this house you drove down a road, entered a gate and at the fork in the road, we were on the right. On the left fork was an exclusive fishing club with sunken ponds the size of tennis courts surrounded by sun bleached white stone. For some reason the rest of the family were taken into this club and held prisoner so me and a group of Australian backpackers broke in and tried to rescue them but this involved traversing a rocky coastline and the group started arguing about why the plan was so bad.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/mechanical-antlers/Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/mechanical-antlers/I was going through a carboard box if old things in my attic (that my house doesn’t have) where I found a small statue of a reindeer with long flowing antlers and a mechanical system that extended the antlers out even more by using part of an antler as a winch. I’d given it to one of my friends who had told me he’d had wild dreams when you slept near it, with candles lit, so I visited his house to try this out.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/omelette-flight/Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/omelette-flight/I was in a small desert town called San Antonio, but this place was on the border between Nevada and California, near Reno. I’d arrived there with friends via a small plane but then I was travelling to L.A. for some reason. I was in a state of confusion and panicky. I had no idea when my flight was, where my tickets were or how the airport was even laid out.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/big-apple/Sun, 04 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/big-apple/I was in a function room with blue tiled walls and draped fabric ceilings with my family when my sister asked if, as she was getting some food if I wanted to share an apple with her. I scoffed a little as I could easily finish an apple by myself but agreed nevertheless. She then returned with two halves of an apple about the size of a watermelon and began to eat around the cut rim so I did the same.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/terror-tractor/Sun, 04 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/terror-tractor/I was eating a meal with my family at a large brick pub in Doncaster. Outside there was a bit of a commotion going on with police cars parked up and stopped traffic. It was all surrounding a young woman driving a blue tractor who had stopped in the middle of a road junction with cars all slowly diverting around her. There were multiple police offers around the tractor, trying to talk to the woman.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/toilet-quest/Sat, 03 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/toilet-quest/I was attending a training course at a large business park with 40+ units however none of them seemed to have any bathrooms, or ones that did seemed to charge an admission fee of about £10 which I found extortionate. While continuing to look, I visited a small Tesco express to pick up some 9v batteries, I picked up 2 packs then asked a member of staff if there were any bathrooms for customers.https://minskio.co.uk/my-rudimentary-backup-process/Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:56:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/my-rudimentary-backup-process/I’ve heard of the 3-2-1 backup process, however I can’t easily, securely (or cheaply) keep an offsite backup so I opt for more of a 1-2 process. I keep an offline store that’s manually synced up every month or so. The problem As you can imagine though, there are a few problems with this… the moving parts involved are: NAS - Contains my live data, but can only accept 1 hard drive (hardware fault), can’t be hot-swapped, doesn’t have a screen or keyboard connected and only has USB2 speed ports for data transfer.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/lost-gig/Sun, 21 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/lost-gig/I was at a holiday park type complex in the lake district with my girlfriend, friend and his girlfriend. We’d been to a music gig featuring a German band to celebrate some kind of political event and we’d danced and later made love. Later on I was trying to find our room however the building was laid out strangely and I’d already entered one room where I’d entered and needed to apologise to a confused looking woman.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/polish-skin-cream/Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/polish-skin-cream/I was on holiday in a European city in a cosy but sparesely decorated room with a double bed, white tiled walls and a patch of black mold on a high ceiling. I was with a friend who had brought with them a group of people I didn’t know who’d just happened to be there and we were all socialising in English. In the middle of the conversation one of the women in the group had mentioned a specific skin cream so her and my friend left the house to get some, leaving me alone with the group of unknown people.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/mirror-image/Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/mirror-image/I was drifting in and out of dreams for a few hours after having broken sleep I was at my grandads house, trying to help him sell his car. His garage however was more like a gazebo tent, maybe 20 metres long, 10 wide with grass on the floor and white deck chairs scattered around the space. Part of this process involved trying to turn the engine over but the key was extremely hard to turn and the engine would only splutter a little and never fully engage.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/our-father/Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/our-father/I was in a swanky New York penthouse apartment in the 1970’s that had a bubbling gold-accented swimming pool near the balcony which somehow physically restored you upon entering, granting you eternal life after you had signed a contract on an ancient scroll of parchment. An oldish man was also there and we were apparently good friends. He had shoulder length flowing white hair and a Grecian Gods’ physique however he had decided that today was the day that he was going to die.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/strong-wizards/Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/strong-wizards/I was walking with a group of friends past a rival school. Feeling a little mischievous, we’d agreed to try and mess with then, magically. Our first plan was to try and turn something into stone. The spell we used was illustro but it didn’t seem to work on inanimate objects. We then picked out a male student through a window and shot a bolt at him, hitting him in the chest.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/coin-rain/Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/coin-rain/I was in a kind of drama studio with Kim Jong Un and another elderly Korean man. I’d been kidnapped there against my will while driving along a seaside road. While in this drama studio we spoke on mostly friendly terms in English and Kim decided to show me a magic trick that involved a gesture like dashing an empty hand that then made it rain coins all around you.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/easter-slap/Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/easter-slap/It was late in the evening and I was staying at a home similar to my own but with a slightly different layout. A friend of mine had asked if he could crash there overnight while waiting for a plane and would leave early in the morning. I agreed to this, let him in and told him to post the keys back through the letterbox when he left. I went upstairs to bed but then was startled by screaming and shouting noises outside.https://minskio.co.uk/languages/czech/Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/languages/czech/Czech - English a - and ahoj - hi/hello ano - yes člověk - person/human další - another děkuji - thank you díky - thanks dobrá - good (feminine) dobré odpoledne - good afternoon dobré ráno - good morning dobrou noc - good night dobrý den - hello/good day dobrý/dobré - good dobrý večer - good evening dům - house hezký - pretty/handsome holka - girl hrad - castle jiná/jiný - different/other jiný - different/other kluk - boy láska - love malá - little malý - little/small mladá - young mladý - young muž - man na shledanou - goodbye nebo - or ne - no nová - new nový - new pivo - beer poslední - last poslední - last/final prosím - please sladké sny - sweet dreams špatný - bad/wrong stará/starý - old/elderly starý - old/elderly stroj - machine strom - tree ta - the, that ten - the/that ulice - street věc - thing velká - big velký - big/large víkend - weekend žena - woman znovu - again zvláštní - strangehttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/work-plugs/Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/work-plugs/I was driving to to a care home site as part of my job with my girlfriend in the car. For some reason I was wearing tigh fitting ear plugs. When we arrived I produced my work phone to assign myself as having arrived on site however saw that I had a job in the next few days in Bournemouth that looked like hundreds of miles away. I walked up to the entrance of the care home, before sitting on a bench to remove the ear plugs.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/car-piazza/Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/car-piazza/I was driving in Leeds at night in my new company car and while traversing a large roundabout a car on my right side collided with me but only at slow speed. I gestured that we should both pull over but the other car drove off so I gave chase, flashing my lights trying to get them to stop. Eventually I lost the car I was trying to follow but another car behind me started flashing me so I pulled over to the side of the road where two girls got out and handed me a small piece of plastic trim from the right of my car that could be slotted back in place quite easily however the entire front of the car was missing its body panels so it was just a bare engine block and headlights.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/flying-fish/Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/flying-fish/I was at a theme park in Scotland where in a farm shop they were selling homemade pies at £60 for a box of 4. I thought this was extortionate so had a few samples and then just milled about after deciding not to buy any. I also ended up driving my car practically up to the front door of the farm shop and there were children running around the area, darting between hedges that surrounded the building.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/torrential-downpour/Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/torrential-downpour/I was travelling with my girlfriend in the car through what looked to be a small English village. It was raining really heavily and it seemed like pretty much every road we went down was either flooded or blocked with cars stuck in floods waters. Sometimes we would be driving down a single track road, come across a passing point but other cars would refuse to use these or would be outright stuck entirely blocking the road.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/spider-dog/Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/spider-dog/I’d driven to a stone built terrace house to pick up my girlfriend to go out for a meal at Miller and Carter. As I waited for her, a black pupil from a nearby school had opened my cars boot and was trying to steal a spare router that I kept in there. At the restaurant we were seated in a conservatory with the dogs but there was no table. She mentioned this then wandered off to try and find one we could use.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/ship-commands/Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/ship-commands/I was a young kid of around 10 years old playing with an older group of kids who I didn’t really know that well. The older group would break rules for fun, encouraging me to do the same which I would eventually and hesitantly do. We were at a childrens playground with a large metal space ship on it. There was a huge rush to get to this ship and input the flight programme before it took off.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bridge-crossing/Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bridge-crossing/I was trying to cross a bridge with a friend that only had 2 road traffic lanes and a narrow train track, no footpath in sight. There was also a stone wall you could awkwardly climb along however this was dangerous as the caps were concaved. In the distance we saw two older women who were trying to cross the bridge however they were trying to enter a tiny hole that was never going to work.https://minskio.co.uk/sf-masterworks-progress/Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:02:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/sf-masterworks-progress/This page ties in a little with my Reading List. I’m in the process (or have been) collecting the Gollancz SF Masterworks and reading through the entire collection. I never really set out with the intention of reading every book but when you get over half way through it seems more of ‘why not?’ type deal. You’re not going to find any reviews here, that could and has been done much better by other people.https://minskio.co.uk/2024-new-years-resolutions/Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/2024-new-years-resolutions/Another year, another list. Late one this time! 6 month wardrobe review Back to sub 70kg weight Document infrastructure Empty the freezer Finish Norwegian Duolingo course Finish SF Masterworks series Sprited programming effort Start rucking/treadmillinghttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hold-guard/Sat, 23 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hold-guard/I was in a police holding cell type place with large sandstone walls. Under the main reception desk there was a floor safe that I was aware that I could access. Inside this floor safe was 181 Runite ore in a plastic bag. I ended up returning to the building after being released where I was given a mouth guard and seated at a plastic table with a table cloth with a guy sat opposite me while we tried to eat an unecessarily complicated meal based on items that had been left behind at the prison and needed eating up.https://minskio.co.uk/prefixing-area-codes-on-3cx/Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:50:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/prefixing-area-codes-on-3cx/Just a quick guide on how to prefix an area code on outgoing calls on 3CX: Rule: 1 Name: Local Prefix: 2-8 Route 1: Provider, Prepend area code Rule: 2 Name: National Prefix: 0-9 Route 1: Provider Takes care of 999, 111 and local area prefixeshttps://minskio.co.uk/reggo-updates/Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:42:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/reggo-updates/A little personal list of tasks that need completing regularly to stay on top of things… I view it as a kind of a ridiculously basic self-hosted version of Habitica. Phone Update Obtainium apps Delete completed books, updating reading list Dump pictures to server Update Podcasts Kindle Update KOReader software Resync library with server HTPC Export watched lists, delete files and clean library Update emulator cores Update media library Package manager updateshttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/complete-world/Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/complete-world/I was walking home from a night out with a few of my friends in the rain, when we’d agreed to all just stay at one of these friends houses, as it was the closest. I also happened to be wearing a frilly white shirt which by this point was entirely see-through from the downpour which probably contributed to her feeling sorry for me. When we arrived at her house, it was huge, dank and old and looked to be decorated in a Victorian style.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/van-de-ice/Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/van-de-ice/I was staying at the first house I ever lived at, and driving some kind of car, there was also an old beat-up sprinter van parked up on the driveway. There was a big storm, and the car was entirely covered in about 5mm of solid clear ice. My dad said I should take the van instead and handed me a yellow spray bottle full of hot water that melted the entirety of the ice in a couple of sprays; leaving the van ready to drive.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/up-down-tiles/Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/up-down-tiles/I was in a sprawling cave system, playing a game with a friend from work and some people I knew from highschool. On the floor there were colourful tiles scattered around with deformed faces, symbols or shapes on them that you could easily accidentally stand on as it was so dark. Some tiles had plus or minus symbols on them and would increase or decrease certain attributes as you stood on them.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/static-man/Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/static-man/I was in a city trying to talk to an old homeless looking man who whenever he would open his mouth to speak would produce bursts of static instead of speech. These static bursts didn’t correspond to the rhythm of conversation or even his jaw movements. After getting frustrated with him I woke up to find the intermittent static noise was actually my girlfriend snoring.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/pensacola-passport/Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/pensacola-passport/I was staying at a large stately home in the countryside with a number of outbuildings surrounding it that had been converted into holiday cottages with different families and guests in each. The holiday cottages were made of white stone and had more than the usual amount of windows you’d expect on them. Between these cottages was a thick carpet of dark green grass interspersed with small hedges. Outside there was an argument going on between the the owner of the stately home and a group of teenagers wearing shiny metallic bathing suits.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/tidal-loch/Sat, 16 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/tidal-loch/I’d decided to go and visit a chain of Scottish islands that were all connected via bridges after watching a Tom Scott video about them. The body of water happened to be tidal but calm so I went for a swim there with the dogs, venturing out into the water. Eventually the tide started to come in through a narrow gap at one end of the loch as waves were crashing around me.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/redecorated-house/Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/redecorated-house/I was going for regular runs down a strange motorway with high walls but no cars. One day during one of these runs I crossed the concrete central reservation but ended up falling over, dropping some paperwork I was carrying for some reason and getting muddy in the process. As I lay on the ground a man in a red van pulled up and let me lie down in the back of his van and while recovering I recall looking up at the ceiling which was covered in loose red fabric.https://minskio.co.uk/whats-on-my-usb-key/Tue, 23 May 2023 23:27:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/whats-on-my-usb-key/I carry around a dinky 64GB Kingston DataTraveler on my keyring for various utilities and operating systems that can save the day. For multibooting, I generally use Ventoy and if ever I need to just boot one image, or Ventoy is giving me grief I’ll use Rufus. As for the list, I usually have the following ready to roll: 3CX Debian Alpine ArchLinux Debian GParted LibreELEC netboot NixOS ntpasswd OpenBSD Windows 10 LTSChttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/fly-face/Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/fly-face/I was at my girlfriends house in the kitchen where there were a few flies buzzing around which I was ducking between, exaggerating my movements when I needed to visit the bathroom upstairs. As I went in there was already a pool of water in the sink and the walls were all an orange-pink colour instead of the usual white tile. I caught a reflection of myself in the mirror and then did a double take as all I had was a nose with no other facial features or outline to my head.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/pile-on/Mon, 15 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/pile-on/I was in a noisy club with a load of people I didn’t know, I wasn’t intentionally there so was wearing my steel work boots which everyone seemed mildly fascinated with. At one point I had a guy standing on each one of my boots when one person was pushed over and I fell over, underneath everyone. Everyone was laughing as they’d been drinking and the music was loud and another person jumped on as well thinking it was a game.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/reservoir-glide/Sat, 06 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/reservoir-glide/I was on a road trip with my girlfriend in central Wales where we were visiting a reservoir named Pnelrith which was named after an island in centre of the reservoir. This reservoir had a special feature that under certain conditions you were able to jump into the air and glide from one side, to the island, then from the island to the other side and back again completely unaided but some people were using wing suit setups to make the process easier.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/malteser-twirl/Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/malteser-twirl/I was on a road trip in a camper van on the Isle of Wight, waiting out a bad storm at a run down pub for a ferry that would arrive at 10:42. I’d just bought a Lidl smart watch that was very feature full however you needed to remove the back plate of the watch and interact with large plastic gears to really do anything useful. It was quite large, made of a silver metal and the watch face looked a little like GoldenEye.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/subtle-shifts/Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/subtle-shifts/I was on an evening out with friends but needed to stop in at home quickly to pick up something, or do something so everyone carried on while me and my friend made a stop at my house. When I arrived and opened the door everything was very subtlety different, my curtain rail was no longer mounted to the wall and was laid down on top of my radiator, there were pieces of plastic loaded into the washing machine and the order and sizes of my fridge shelves had moved and there was extra half eaten food and opened drinks left inside.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/saw-bear/Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/saw-bear/I was with my grandad and mum in an old 80’s style office building that was being used as a care home with beige walls, ceiling tiles and flourescant lighting. For some reason we were carrying my grandad towards the lobby, with each of us lifting him under his shoulder with ours. When we finally arrived at the lobby there was a group of people already there. There was a nurse near the main door who was instructing us all to stand in a row, before she cried out “A-N-C!https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bloody-bandage/Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bloody-bandage/I was at home my parents house having just given blood, my arm was aching and I needed to go the the bathroom as well. As I walked along the landing towards the bathroom the floor seemed to slope upwards and walking further was a real struggle. I reached my left arm out to try grab ahold of something to stop from falling backwards and saw my needle mark had started bleeding again, I gingerly pulled off the plaster which was now heavy with blood and it started oozing back out again thickly.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/camper-van-meal/Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/camper-van-meal/I was living in a VW camper van having a nap parked up by the side of a road in a foreign town. I was wearing a pair of bluetooth headphones, watching videos on my laptop. I was awoken by a dog messing around with my feet as they hung out of the side of the van. It has just rained and my laptop was outside but it seemed fine if not a bit soggy.https://minskio.co.uk/upgrading-docker-containers/Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:35:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/upgrading-docker-containers/I moved all my server infrastructure some ~8 months ago to a simpler arm64 stack hosted on Oracles free tier. As part of this (and to reduce some headaches) I purposely chose not to constantly update my docker containers. The amount of times things would mess up, versus get fixed was just not worth the hassle. Eventually though, you do need to update things which brings me to todays post.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/alpine-quiz/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/alpine-quiz/I was cycling high up in the Austrian Alps when I stopped off at a British style pub where I was served some sticky dates in a bag with a pint of cold beer. As I sat down at my table I was being harassed by a dog, my friend produced a board game from a stack of them near the bar and we started to play, but the barman took up a microphone and started a quiz to the nearly empty pub.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/archer-tests/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/archer-tests/I was with Tom Scott after he’d filmed a video about a disabled Latino archer showing how well he could shoot and otherwise was physically. He was unintentionally rude regarding the archers other capabilities so the archer fired a few shots into a target dummy while Tom stood quite close. Another test was a prosthetic human hand mounted about 3 metres off the ground that you were just supposed to do a standing jump towards.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/litter-lady/Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/litter-lady/I was visiting a friend who had recently moved house to an old Victorian style terrace. He had a new girlfriend who’d moved in and this was to be the first time I’d ever met her. He’d already warned me she was a bit crazy but was hoping to work things out in the future. For some reason I was roped into cleaning out her cats litter trays but she had an extremely specific way of doing this, with certain bags, brushes and trays needing to be used with everything ultimately being binned versus recycled.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/state-shrapnel/Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/state-shrapnel/I was at The Company Shop but the aisles had been replaced with a kind of ordering counter and café chair and table layout where you could order food and it would be cooked and served for you there and then. I ordered a chicken burger with chips but the woman serving gave me my change before I’d paid her. I tried calculating what she expected me to pay from the change given but couldn’t as it came to about 80p which was well under what I was expecting.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/classy-home/Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/classy-home/I was at a friends house that while that same overall layout, was incredibly ornately furnished with marble water features, fountains interspersed with jets of flame and free standing bath tubs around in most rooms. All the internal walls were matte black bricks with white mortar and the floors had thick white shaggy rugs scattered around them. The house was full of women who were all preparing to go to an airport to travel abroad so there was luggage, clothing and toiletries scattered everywhere and the houses owner was also very made up, wearing a slinky black dress.https://minskio.co.uk/2023-new-years-resolutions/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 11:55:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/2023-new-years-resolutions/Another year, another list: Document infrastructure Eat less meat Empty the freezer Finish SF Masterworks series Get a wage rise Less home drinking Start running again Sub 70kg weight Visit another Scandinavian countryhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/pirate-puzzle/Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/pirate-puzzle/I was on a docked wooden pirate ship that was utterly deserted. For some reason we were trapped aboard and were looking for a way out when we found a remote controlled bomb that could walk around but couldn’t jump. I’m not sure why we couldn’t just leave but the solution ended up with the group of us being sat in a lifeboat using an RC car controller to remotely direct this walkable bomb to a weak point on the ship that would ensure it sank while we escaped in the lifeboat.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/rear-ended/Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/rear-ended/I was driving at night around a ring road when I drove past a car that had been rear ended by another car. There was a police car at the scene and a transporter for the damaged car. I drove past this and a little further on there was collection of 3 road signs warning of upcoming road works, however one of these signs was missing so just the frame was lying in the road but as it was dark I had to swerve to avoid it.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/rolly-boot/Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/rolly-boot/I was with two women in a very tall mediterranean style house, we’d been out in town and for some reason had received an acrylic model of the leg of Wilt from Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends but wearing a roller skate on a plinth. On the walk home, we’d ordered a takeaway then were waiting for it to arrive once we were home. One of the women was flirting with the delivery driver over the phone but then refused to collect the food once they’d arrived.https://minskio.co.uk/removing-large-files-from-a-borg-backup/Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:30:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/removing-large-files-from-a-borg-backup/I have a couple of ‘backup systems’. For important documents that change frequently I use Borg, along with the helper script borgmatic with my hosting being provided by BorgBase. The three all tie together incredibly well and if the free tier of BorgBase didn’t cover my every need I’d happily pay for it. Occasionally however, I’ll end up temporarily storing a large file in a directory that will be backed up on schedule which then increases my overall storage usage unnecessarily.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/stegosaurus-jeremy/Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/stegosaurus-jeremy/Jeremy was a stegosaurus living in an otherwise perfectly functional stegosaurus community and a dinosaur themed world. He was fairly meek and ineffective and would compete with his neighbours over trivial things that had no bearing on life at large. Such as woodworking DIY projects in his front garden, frantically sawing through wood with the first and shavings flying up around him. His actual job and real passion however was space as this world was locked in bloody competition with a faceless enemy on another world.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/apartheid-wedding/Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/apartheid-wedding/I was at some kind of wedding party for a couple I didn’t know, it was being hosted in some kind of swimming bath type complex where all the rooms were connected by differently sized and shaped swimming pools and diving in and out of them and swimming to get to other rooms was perfectly normal. My grandad and an old black man I didn’t know had been having a chat all day and had otherwise gotten on quite well.https://minskio.co.uk/installing-openwrt-on-a-tp-link-tl-wa801nd-v3/Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:54:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/installing-openwrt-on-a-tp-link-tl-wa801nd-v3/Over the past few years I’ve been looking at getting as much ‘open hardware’ as possible. Knowing something’s running an open source operating system puts me at ease versus something that’s just a black box where you have no idea what’s actually going on. Virgin Media’s ‘super hubs’ are quite imfamous for wireless coverage so a separate AP was pretty much mandatory as my router is in my cellar and the furthest distance from it is more than 3 floors away making coverage tricky.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bath-nip/Sun, 21 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bath-nip/I was at a friends house, sat in a filled bath in a gloomy bathroom which had cream walls and white tiles but no windows to let in natural light. He knocked on the door and said he needed to come in to take a leak, I laughed this off and told him he’d have to wait and continued bathing. Due to the orientation of the bath in front of the bathroom door, and the style of frosted glass door, he was able to slide one of the panes of glass out of the door and start pinching my legs and arms while I was sat in the bath.https://minskio.co.uk/personal-best-in-slot-emulators/Thu, 21 Jul 2022 14:16:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/personal-best-in-slot-emulators/The majority of the information on this page came from NonMAME and the Emulation General Wiki, visit those sites for a more detailed breakdown and actually useful guides. The choices below are not strictly speaking the best, just my personal preference when it comes to simplicity, accuracy, features and platforms. At the end of the day I just wanted a single page for reference I could open up in many tabs.https://minskio.co.uk/restoring-petitboot-on-an-odroid-hc4/Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:53:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/restoring-petitboot-on-an-odroid-hc4/In the process of messing around with a few different Operating Systems (before eventually settling on Debian Netboot) I’d managed to render the device unbootable. All I’d get upon powering up the device was a solid red LED with no display, after Googling around a little and browsing the forums it looked as though I needed to restore the original bootloader. At the time of writing, the two latest SPI files are spiupdate_odroidhc4_20201222.https://minskio.co.uk/unable-to-type-apostrophes-in-windows/Fri, 15 Jul 2022 10:53:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/unable-to-type-apostrophes-in-windows/Randomly one day, my keyboard just straight up stopped entering the apostrophe character. No real reason why, Windows gonna Windows I guess. Anyway, after trying to clean the contacts, unplug and replug the keyboard, reboot, try another keyboard, I gathered it has to be something in software. I’m not one to shy away from remapping keys, but quitting my program also made no difference. I eventually narrowed it down to it being assigned as a dead key used for shortcuts to swap between languages.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/victorian-dockets/Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/victorian-dockets/I was working on an enormous Victorian era factory that took huge red hot iron piston shapes called dockets via two full-size trains and then processed them before sending then off to another stage to be worked on. I was there with a load of other engineers to diagnose a timing issue that either made trains return empty or some kind of molten metal pile up in the heart of the factory.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/embarrassing-asda/Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/embarrassing-asda/I was driving home in heavy rain at night and the sat nav in the car was messing up, telling me to zigzag through side streets instead of going through a fully open straight road. I could barely see however, and at the last junction I heard a thump and a scraping noise where I’d run over a couple of cones that didn’t need to be there in the road. They were still mostly up and it was raining heavily so I just drove off and entered a shopping centre car park.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/blue-room/Tue, 17 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/blue-room/I was at my parents house in my old bedroom with my mum however all the furniture had been rmeoved and the room had been lined with poorly painted blue sheets of plywood on all the walls and floor. I was talking with my mum who said she was having a problem with insects in the room, so gave me a barely inflated football and asked me to bounce it around, crushing the bugs in the process.https://minskio.co.uk/ext4-deleted-data-recovery/Mon, 09 May 2022 17:07:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/ext4-deleted-data-recovery/Two data recovery stories in as many weeks! Fortunately, the events that lead to these were actually split by well over a year. Inevitably, while using Linux you’re going to end up making the human error of deleting a file you shouldn’t delete. I was working in two near-identical file trees slowly merging them together. As you’ve guessed, I rm -rf’d a directory in the wrong tree. I immediately knew as soon as I hit enter so unmounted the drive and started researching recovery methods.https://minskio.co.uk/recoving-de-duplicated-git-repositories/Thu, 05 May 2022 15:37:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recoving-de-duplicated-git-repositories/I have a number of software projects in a single directory, using git for version control which is shared across most of my computers using syncthing. Late one night, I wanted to de-duplicate a folder full of files I’d been working on over the course of a few weeks. I’d work through a directory then as part of my ‘completing’ the work, would de-duplicate it using jdupes to ensure no files were duplicated.https://minskio.co.uk/logging-duolingo-ranks-over-time/Tue, 03 May 2022 14:58:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/logging-duolingo-ranks-over-time/I was curious as to how my Duolingo streak rank would change, and what the rate of attrition would look like over time. This page was originally an attempt to mix markdown and bash scripting into a single executable page that updates itself when run (that was itself documentation of how it worked), however the header that Hugo requires entirely breaks the markdown/bash quirk that allowed it to work with plain markdown.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/paris-guard/Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/paris-guard/Due to a diversity hiring program, Paris Hilton was working as a security guard in a large storage warehouse. To keep from being bored during the night, she’d started painting the walls from a cream colour to a dark green however was painting them in bands, one brick band at a time so had only done the first 3 bands of breeze blocks over the past couple of months. Most evenings, the warehouse complex was broken into by four teenagers, (two male and two female, who also had two micro-pigs as pets) who had been told that one of the storage lockers in the complex contained something secret however hadn’t been told the specific locker, only that they’d know it when they saw it.https://minskio.co.uk/unused-pixel-scale-panel-icons/Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:09:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/unused-pixel-scale-panel-icons/These are mainly based around Siji/Stlarch with a couple of additional icons. As Siji hasn’t been updated since 2019 and I hate having a folder with unused items in it, I’ve decided to post them here. A while back I designed a bit of a Gnome/BSPWM hybrid that predictably never saw the light of day. Instead of the usual text centric panel I’d decided on icons that would change colour to indicate what was going on, and panes could be clicked for additional details when required.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/swedish-valley/Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/swedish-valley/I was walking through rural Sweden, talking with an old man about his life. I was wearing a beanie, a big old coat and old heavy boots. We’d started off at a large lake that had been bridged by a spit of land that was around 5cm submerged in the water so you were wading through it, splashing the water around as you walked. After the lake, we continued walking to a valley floor that was covered in a thick carpet of green.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/albino-komodo/Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/albino-komodo/I was visiting a friends house for a Sunday lunch as he’d bought a quite friendly Komodo dragon as a pet and wanted me to see it. When we got there I was asked to put the beef joint in the oven however nobody seemed to be able to find one and were considering going to a supermarket to buy a replacement. I eventually took charge and found it sat on the middle shelf of the fridge exactly where you’d expect it to be.https://minskio.co.uk/mysterious-media-solved-and-unsolved/Mon, 04 Apr 2022 11:44:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/mysterious-media-solved-and-unsolved/Below is a list of TV shows, movies, books and games that I remember vaugely from my youth that I’ve since found. I’m noting them here just in case anybody ends up on a similar quest through search engines. Unsolved Animated film about christmas I had on VHS. A kid somehow gets taken via a old flying boat/airship to an area with rooms branching off a central room. For whatever reason, something happens and they run away back to the airship and take him home where all the family issues he had have been resolved.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/safety-video/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/safety-video/I was working behind the scenes filming an instructional safety video about warehouses filming a long haired lanky actor in an office environment. It had segments like keep track of false roof tiles so they don’t fall on you, tripping up over cables and stock falling from shelving racks. For some reason the main actor was really aggressive towards staff and was actively trying to hurt us by precariously leaving things where we’d either trip up, or they’d fall on us.https://minskio.co.uk/oracle-alpine-linux-arm-server/Wed, 16 Feb 2022 18:59:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/oracle-alpine-linux-arm-server/After finding a post about creating a minecraft server in bash on Reddit I started reading through the rest of sdomi’s blog and one post in particular caught my eye. It details running an aarch64 version of Alpine Linux on a free tier Oracle Cloud server. Now this combination of words ticks pretty much every box I have going. While the guide is a little brief on details it works great and offers some suggestions at the end I’d like to build upon.https://minskio.co.uk/formatting-and-checking-bash-scripts/Tue, 01 Feb 2022 11:52:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/formatting-and-checking-bash-scripts/Everyone’s head of shellcheck for checking over scripts to ensure obvious (and not-so-obvious) mistakes aren’t being made. Afterwards I usually quite like to beautify/prettify/format up code to get all the usual readability improvements gained from this. In the past, I’ve used beautysh and while it’s worked, I generally don’t like using python programs when alternatives are available, and especially don’t like manually installing programs when it can be done via the package manager.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/mobile-lathe/Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/mobile-lathe/I was installing a phone system at a metal working shop and was working near heavy still-operating machinery while the machine was still on. As I reached into a machine it started to move and then stop abruptly as it detected my arm inside the machine. A worker came to me and said he thought it would have been me causing the problem. He wanted to take me to go to the reception office and offered me a lift on the machine that had stopped working.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/reversed-wedding/Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/reversed-wedding/I was attending a wedding in America for a friend of mine and was flying over with a few of my friends on the same flight. When we arrived we drove to a large house where everyone was getting dressed for the event. I wore just a simple suit but my friend had decided to wear a strappy silver and black dress but wore it reversed so the plunging neckline showed off his back.https://minskio.co.uk/2022-new-years-resolutions/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 12:02:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/2022-new-years-resolutions/Another year, another belated list: ~65kg weight Continue Japanese Duolingo course Increase crypto holdings and savings Install FOSS Wi-Fi AP Provision computers using ansible Server 2.0 Project (email, xmpp, seedbox) Start running againhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/caillou-repair/Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/caillou-repair/I was asked to repair a complicated looking audio devices by a coworker, it was quite a bulky object around the size of a lunch box and inside there were multiple smaller circuit boards around the size of a credit card with a number of cables, connectors, heatsinks and other components. Four some reason the only reference material I had access to was an animated TV show in the style of paw patrol where the main character, a child who looked like Caillou walked you through the complete and functional device explaining what components did what and where everything went.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bee-family/Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bee-family/I was visiting my parents house, and was sat in their living room when they informed me they’d started keeping honey bees and wanted me to be accepted by the swarm just incase I ever needed to look after them in the future. They explained that the usual procedure for this was to add paper to the hive for use as building materials. As I approached the hive, it was just a large pile of sheets of A4 paper in the middle of the room swarming with bees.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/flash-boys/Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/flash-boys/I was staying at some kind of halfway house where Tom Felton was working as a guidance councillor and makeshift guard. In some of the rooms’ false ceilings were flimsy wooden tripods with metal trinkets dangling from the middle of them. If you knew how, you could use these tripods to time travel however every time this happened you’d lose all memory of being able to time travel. Whenever this time travel happened it was known in the house as a Flash Event and was generally spoken about in hushed whisper and shrouded in mystery.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/meat-market/Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/meat-market/I was sat in a cosy bar in a futuristic Japanese city with a few friends who were explaining what life was like since they’d moved to this new city. The conversation turned to how extremely exclusive meat was these days and I explained that for whatever reason, I had a small amount of meat on me and pulled a fresh beef burger wrapped in butchers paper wrapped in twine out of my coats pocket.https://minskio.co.uk/disabling-cgit-scraping-logs/Wed, 03 Nov 2021 10:47:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/disabling-cgit-scraping-logs/One recurring problem that keeps happening every couple of months is my server will run out of disk space, the cause is usually the docker directory blowing up in size to a few gigabytes which on my small VPS can really start to cause issues. You can find the offending containers using the excellent ncdu via: sudo ncdu /var/lib/docker When you have the ID of the container (e.g. /var/lib/docker/overlay2/6fe41495127cc92398107df951416ec27463fd4ff6525a7d227bcf0c4e63803a) you can find the corresponding container via:https://minskio.co.uk/upgrading-postgresql-in-an-alpine-docker-container/Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:16:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/upgrading-postgresql-in-an-alpine-docker-container/I use PostgreSQL as the database backend for my RSS reader, Tiny Tiny RSS. In a potentially misguided leap, I run this inside a docker container that will automatically upgrade when a new release comes about. This guide assumes you have an postgres:alpine container named postgres, and the user is also named postgres. I’m also managing this using docker-compose. If not, amend the guide where necessary. The upgrade I performed was version 13 to 14, but this guide should be version agnostic.https://minskio.co.uk/replacing-youtube-dl-with-yt-dlp/Sat, 18 Sep 2021 17:58:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/replacing-youtube-dl-with-yt-dlp/At the time of writing, youtube-dl hasn’t been updated since July 2021 and has many unresolved issues, some of which cause real problems with my RSS/YouTube workflow. In steps yt-dlp to the rescue which fixes the issues I’ve experienced and continues to be updated to this day. Now while I usually like to keep as many items as possible managed via my package manager (and there are yt-dlp AUR packages available), youtube-dl was one of the exceptions I’d make.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/soju-experiment/Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/soju-experiment/I was in a research lab in a futuristic Japanese city that took up the entire floor space and was maybe 3 storeys high. I was part of this research as I’d been injured years before and instead of being drafted for frontline combat I was tasked with human experimentation instead. Inside this space, the ground was covered in grass and there were cliffs on the walls, but we were still indoors.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/song-bush/Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/song-bush/I was in America sat on a roundabout surrounded by a metre wide ring of dying bushes trying to remember a song I’d heard previously. I’m holding a blue pair of flush angle snips and every time I cut through a branch, I hear a couple of seconds of the song I’m trying to recall. As I’m trying to listen to the lyrics two policemen come up behind me, then roughly carry me under my arm before throwing me into a futuristic looking police car.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/egyptian-war/Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/egyptian-war/I was stationed in Egypt with about 30 or 40 soldiers during a war in the 1980’s, I was driving around in a six wheeled APC type vehicle decorated in desert camouflage. We split into two groups, one was trying to flush out an enemy whereas my group was staying around some ancient ruins hoping to ambush the same enemy force. I entered these ruins as it was cooler down there during the day and found some kind of mysterious treasure that would win us the war.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/the-dark-half/Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/the-dark-half/I was in a remote cabin in a heavily wooded area with a dirt road going to it with a guy with shoulder length blonde hair and two girls, one brunette, the other blonde. The two girls were there under some kind of witness protection programme after an attempt had been made on their lives but they weren’t aware of anybody who wanted to harm them or any details of the attacker.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/boss-battle/Sat, 19 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/boss-battle/I was playing a game with boss battles on it on a new console that looked like a PlayStation 5 but the side panels were coloured in midnight blue and gold. The gist of the boss battle was that you had to take damage personally for the boss to be damaged and you healing yourself would heal the boss too. The boss was enormous and visually looked like Vishnu and she would hunt you like an angry human trying to catch a mouse.https://minskio.co.uk/working-around-the-ny-times-paywall-in-firefox/Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:53:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/working-around-the-ny-times-paywall-in-firefox/I was recently linked to an interesting article on the New York Times website. However on trying to view this I was immediately blocked by the paywall despite this being the first article I’d read there. Not to be deterred by this and not wanting to wipe any browsing history or caches I investigated the cause. As you’d expect the cause of this (and all of lifes problems) is JavaScript. To work around this, you can disable JavaScript temporarily to read the article:https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/inspection-thieves/Sat, 05 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/inspection-thieves/I was living in a tiny house with modern Scandinavian designed rooms. My neighbour an older woman, was explaining that she’d just had a man and a woman come round, criticise her houses design and steal possessions while they were going round the rooms. I heard a knock at the door and saw a goth looking couple asking if they could come in. I knew they were the thieves but I let them in anyway as I wanted to refute their criticisms of my house.https://minskio.co.uk/ericsson-lg-pbx-notes/Fri, 21 May 2021 13:48:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/ericsson-lg-pbx-notes/With the news that Ericsson LG will be discontinuing the eMG80 PBX, I’m publishing some notes I made years ago with the hopes that someone finds them useful. I’ll publish similar notes for other manufacturers at later dates. Hardware DIP switches eMG80 - 1 and 2 off in normal operation, 2 on during boot defaults the system UCP100 - 1 and 4 off in normal operation, 4 on during boot defaults the system Port wiring Analogue extension RJ11: Pins 3 and 4 (innermost 2) Digital extension RJ11: Pins 2 and 5 (nextmost 2) Line cord RJ45: Line 1, Pins 1 and 2.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/mountain-house-entrapment/Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/mountain-house-entrapment/I was scheduled to attend a house party at a friends tiny house in a mountainous region in the countryside. I’d already been to the house and every facet of it was either incomplete or unusably small like door frames you needed to pass through sideways on and ceiling heights that meant you needed to stoop on most floors. While here I was wearing a sky blue pair of shorts and a sky blue T-shirt, due to the altitude I joked about getting lost in the clouds.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/infinity-farm/Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/infinity-farm/I was conducting a site survey at a farm, installing a single phone in a barn that was quite some distance away from the main office site. There were large multi-storey stone built barns as far as the eye could see and they were all in a rundown condition. One of the barns I walked through had thick chains curtain as its wall instead of the usual large stone blocks.https://minskio.co.uk/dumping-unread-rss-items-from-selfoss/Fri, 05 Mar 2021 09:55:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dumping-unread-rss-items-from-selfoss/I’ve recently gone through somewhat of a RSS (r)evolution recently, finding myself switching from the excellent web based Selfoss to the command line Newsboat application and then wanting multiple clients across multiple platforms (without awkwardly syncing a database) using Tiny Tiny RSS as my server, with Newsboat, the Web UI and the FOSS Android client all as clients working flawlessly. During migrations around the place however you’ll inevitably end up with multiple running RSS readers, all updating independently, duplicating unread items.https://minskio.co.uk/enabling-swype-on-the-aosp-keyboard/Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:42:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/enabling-swype-on-the-aosp-keyboard/I’ve recently changed my phone to a Pixel 4, one of the reasons for this was to have as much of an open source device as possible. Naturally my operating system of choice was LineageOS 17. With this however, the included AOSP keyboard will not support gesture inputs without a proprietary Google library. To get this working, you’ll first want to download the Pico package of Open GApps for your phone, I’m using ARM64 architecture for my Pixel 4 device however yours may be different.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/runway-raceday/Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/runway-raceday/I’d just taken part in a supercar track day type event on an airport runway however in the background there was a pilot practicing sharp cornering and handbrake turns in a large 737 type aeroplane. He overshot the distance and ended up resting halfway up an embanking with the engines still churning away at full speed. We are all told that we had to cool down the engines any way we could otherwise they’d overheat and explode.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hunker-in-a-bunker/Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hunker-in-a-bunker/I was in an underground bunker complex in Australia after a catastrophic event has happened. I had a wife and when the call went out to evacuate we rushed to the complexes entrance and down a long metal staircase until we were in a packed prison like room filled with other survivors. A fight broke out and many of the other survivors died in the struggle including my wife. Eventually after a long period I was the only person left, surviving eating frozen meals that everyone else had turned down.https://minskio.co.uk/2021-new-years-resolutions/Sat, 09 Jan 2021 10:05:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/2021-new-years-resolutions/Another year, another list. Here goes nothing: 64kg weight Bed by midnight Dry January FOSS Wi-Fi card Home workout regimen Investigate shrooms Multiboot desktop Linux OpenWRT wireless AP Revert seedbox back to Hetzner using VPN Run 5K at the gym in a reasonable time Server 2.0 Project (email, unified chat, seedbox) Start Japanese Duolingo coursehttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/fishing-on-a-golfcourse/Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/fishing-on-a-golfcourse/I was in the United States walking across a large golf course in glorious sunshine surrounded by tall evergreen trees when I picked up a discarded club on the ground and walked towards a fishing hut near a lake where you could rent equipment. I tried returning the club for it’s deposit value of £35 which wasn’t going well. The owner would ramble and try to convince me to rent a fishing rod to try fishing on the lake instead.https://minskio.co.uk/gcz-rvz-and-wia-size-comparison/Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:18:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/gcz-rvz-and-wia-size-comparison/For as long as I can remember, the Dolphin emulator has supported GCZ compression, and since version 5.0-12188, it has added two new formats, WIA and RVZ (as outlined in this blog post). The original post has a quick overview of size comparisons, but it doesn’t detail how well each compression method works. I tried this with Kururin Squash!, a Japanese exclusive Gamecube game and sequel to the GBA exclusive Kuru Kuru Kururin.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/substitute-referee/Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/substitute-referee/I was a substitute teacher at an all boys school for under-priveledged kids in a rough area. The playing fields surrounding the building were just semi-filled car parks. At break times, the game of choice was football but played with an empty laptop bag as all the actual balls had either been kicked away or stolen. I was refereeing a small tournament as their previous teacher was unavailable. I was getting on quite well with the kids however they still treated me warily as an outsider.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/smoking-in-birmingham/Sat, 19 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/smoking-in-birmingham/I was working in a health food shop in a run down area that looked a little like Birmingham. My house was nearby and I had a room that opened up to an area of forest land but a lot of other people had rooms that opened to the same forest in similar styled housing. At the time, I was unaware of this however every week the shop would be shaken down for 70 pounds by a gang of youths.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/motorhome-truckin/Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/motorhome-truckin/I was driving through a desert that looked like Monument Valley, only in Utah in a convoy of about 10 RV’s, we were talking via walkie talkies about the colour of the stand and stone and how great the weather was. We had a schedule to keep, and get to a camp before stopping for the night. I was driving with a girl I didn’t know called Rachel who said we should push on to the next camp as we were making good time.https://minskio.co.uk/using-nordvpn-on-archlinux/Thu, 03 Dec 2020 13:43:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/using-nordvpn-on-archlinux/I found myself with access to a NordVPN account a while back, and while VPN’s have many, many downsides and the advertising of them is even worse, there is still a place for them. The CLI client is available in the AUR, so it can be installed via: yay -S nordvpn-bin Once installed, you’ll want to add your username to the nordvpn group using: sudo gpasswd -a $(whoami) nordvpn Logout and log back in for the above to take effect.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/radio-beef/Sat, 28 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/radio-beef/I was at my parents house on an evening talking with my mother, we were listening to a classic rock station, either absolute radio or planet rock while having a chat. One of the presenters, a famous Gothic rock star who looked like Peter Steele started explaining a story where he had unresolved beef with one of my friends I met online and wanted to solve this one and for all.https://minskio.co.uk/upgrading-and-downgrading-skulls-on-a-thinkpad-laptop/Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:59:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/upgrading-and-downgrading-skulls-on-a-thinkpad-laptop/After posting my previous guide regarding Skulls I had been running version 0.1.8 on my laptop without issue. Never wanting to leave something good alone though, I decided to endeavor to upgrade the BIOS image to the latest version, because why the hell not. The first thing you’ll want is to install the two dependencies the script requires. sudo pacman -S dmidecode flashrom Now grab the latest release from the projects Github repository and extract the archive using tar -xf skulls-x230t-0.https://minskio.co.uk/finding-and-removing-fake-subtitles/Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:38:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/finding-and-removing-fake-subtitles/A recent trend that I absolutely hate is the inclusion of fake advertisement subtitles in pirated video releases. As a user and a fan of subtitles, this just presents me with extra steps when I actually want the correct subtitles for the media, I need to go about finding the original release name, then find the correct subtitle file before replacing the fake file. All in all, it’s a hassle I’d prefer not to have.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hotel-archer/Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hotel-archer/I was working for a telecoms company in a large prestigious hotel, they already had in one of our larger phone systems which they were happy with and were only really in the hotel to use it as a meeting room. A number of various staff members were there to cook and serve as waiters in a small pokey room high up in the old hotel building that required walking up and down steep flights of stairs to get to.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/tropical-naval-warfare/Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/tropical-naval-warfare/I was a soldier in fatigues from a defacto western power fighting a war with tribal people in tropical pacific islands. They’d been attacked with nuclear weapons in the past but had found ways to harvest and propagate the radiation into minerals and fertilizer to help their crops grow. Whenever we would land on the island they would attack us on site and throw spears at us carved entirely from single pieces of wood.https://minskio.co.uk/zeroing-out-a-drive-on-windows/Fri, 28 Aug 2020 20:34:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/zeroing-out-a-drive-on-windows/Recently I sold a couple more of the hard drives that made up my SnapRAID array back when I had a Linux powered home server. Wanting to check over the drives one last time for SMART info, and bad sectors I noticed I hadn’t wiped the drive, and there were still readable files and partitions there. Previously, I did this all via a USB3 dock on my Linux laptop using dd, but today we’re on a Windows desktop, so let the adventure commence!https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/japanese-game-show/Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/japanese-game-show/I was in Japan, playing a Takeshi’s Castle type game with 50 other westerners from all over Europe and northern America against 50 Japanese people. We were sat in groups of 5 and being asked to answer general knowledge questions in Japanese that we had no idea about and were hopelessly guessing. After a total of 50 questions were asked there was an intermission, during which I boarded the plane that had brought the western group to Japan.https://minskio.co.uk/debloating-the-lg-q6-phone/Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:17:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/debloating-the-lg-q6-phone/I’ve had the LG Q6 for many moons now, I picked it up used for about 120GBP and it fits right in with my cheap and cheerful mantra. One thing that’s always annoyed me about it however was the inability to root the device and install a custom ROM with less bloat! The bootloader is locked, and any guides you’ll find online are copy/paste jobs for other models that don’t work.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/sneaking-into-school/Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/sneaking-into-school/I was in my old junior school, with am old friend who was guiding me round as they’d massively expanded into the school playing field with modern appartment buildings. He had been hired to stop some violent break ins where teachers had been tied up before the classrooms were burgled of their IT equipment. I was wearing a purple HAM cloak which I’d found while sneaking into the school. One of the teachers saw us and came over to ask questions but I passed easily with no suspicion.https://minskio.co.uk/calculating-relative-average-subdirectory-filesizes/Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:37:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/calculating-relative-average-subdirectory-filesizes/During these unprecedented times I’ve been watching a fair amount of movies and TV shows, and deleting once done, as you do. As a bit of a interesting insight and guiding hand I’ve been using the excellent ncdu and rclone’s …clone which both work excellently for when 1 folder equates to 1 media. With TV shows however this is complicated somewhat. In steps calculating average filesizes in a directory so you can sort them revealing the most notorious offenders.https://minskio.co.uk/wiping-your-windows-recovery-partition/Fri, 14 Aug 2020 03:42:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/wiping-your-windows-recovery-partition/I recently replaced my Windows 10 LTSC installation with a stock(er) Windows 10 Pro install, one thing I noticed was an additional partition automatically being created. This partition was helpfully labelled as a recovery partition, and took up 512MB of ever so precious space. I did a bit of research into the matter and found out it wasn’t strictly necessary, and personally when it comes to recovering an operating system I have no qualms performing a clean install.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/lego-museum/Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/lego-museum/I was with a friend when he mentioned there was a local Lego museum located near an airport in a desert that had amazing displays. I drove us there through long empty roads and some displays were so large they were housed in hangers with open top roofs with the exhibits sticking through. One was a huge T-rex and there was also a collection of photorealistic planets. The main building of the museum was a fancy hotel with staff dressed to match.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/costco-treasure/Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/costco-treasure/Me and my friend had planned a trip up to the north of the country for a long weekend with our girlfriends as a kind of double date. We stopped off on the way at a wholesale shop like Costco for some food supplies. After shopping we put our items on the conveyor belt but they kept on falling through it into a freezer compartment below the belt. To return to the car in the carpark we had to take a lift down to the ground floor where a chav couple inside were arguing.https://minskio.co.uk/installing-resynthesizer-for-gimp-on-windows/Sat, 25 Jul 2020 02:43:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/installing-resynthesizer-for-gimp-on-windows/I had an image that I wanted to remove a section from in a content aware manor, much like what is available in Photoshop. For such a simple edit, I opted to use GIMP instead of pirating photoshop, but the plugin required manually installing. Windows binary can be grabbed from this archived registry repo, once downloaded you want to extract the contents of the Resynthesizer_v1.0-i686\ directory inside the archive into your %appdata%\GIMP\2.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/secret-underwater-school/Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/secret-underwater-school/I was in an underwater subterranean school for gifted children that had sent out it’s invitations via secret radio waves that I happened to pick up while working in a small fishing town. I had an interview with the robotic AI headmistress and she allowed me to attend but didn’t like that my views weren’t in line with hers and would keep a close eye on me. This school was very futuristic but sparsely furnished and had movable floors that could raise and lower in certain areas that would allow for spontaneous beds on a designated napping floor, beanbag couches on a gaming floor, and chairs and tables on a tabletop games floor.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/testing-military-equipment/Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/testing-military-equipment/I was in an airport waiting lounge during World War 2 in a country in central Europe. Equipment was being handed out to a large group of recruits like me. I was given a heavy large metal helmet that neatly entirely blocked out all surrounding noise, a large wooden assault rifle with multiple small magazines on either side that would jam if you held the trigger down for too long and a heavy green trench coat that was splattered with mud and blood.https://minskio.co.uk/case-sensitively-labelling-a-fat32-drive/Sun, 05 Jul 2020 17:11:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/case-sensitively-labelling-a-fat32-drive/Under Linux As you’d expect, it’s pretty simple. You just need fatlabel from the dosfstools package: sudo apt-get install dosfstools lsblk --fs fatlabel /dev/yourdrive YourLabel Under Windows Windows generally won’t let you do this, always defaulting to upper-case, but there is a workaround. Create a new text file on the root of the drive called autorun.inf with the following contents. [autorun] label=YourLabel [Content] MusicFiles=false PictureFiles=false VideoFiles=falsehttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hippie-commune/Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hippie-commune/I was in a weird hippie type compound that was based around a large warehouse with tribal style music and campfires outside and maybe a hundred people all partying and having a good time. Part of their so called spiritual awakening involved smoking a floppy looking herb that looked like a combination of lavender and asparagus and once done you entered a psychedelic state. In this state everything was moving and warping around and you had to remain as calm as possible and embrace the experience.https://minskio.co.uk/notes-on-storing-dotfiles/Sun, 28 Jun 2020 15:29:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/notes-on-storing-dotfiles/I’ve run various versions of Linux on and off for quite a few years now, and I’ve never really thought about archiving my dotfiles in any meaningful way. I would re-install Linux so infrequently, and generally make so few changes that it never made sense to set up systems or repositories for config files. Recently though, I reinstalled Linux on my laptop having to set up everything from scratch seemed like a real drag, with remembering what applications I had installed, little nuances in config files and keyboard layout modifications.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/terraforming-mars/Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/terraforming-mars/I was tasked with terraforming and replacing an alien race on a planet that looked like the Badlands national park in the US, the alien race had barely been established but had made small settlements like frontier towns. I was using a gun type device that shot nano particles like a combination of The Clentaminator and Nanolathes from Total Annihilation or Supreme Commander. Once used, it would replace their small houses with city style tower blocks.https://minskio.co.uk/notes-on-sorting-paperwork/Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:29:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/notes-on-sorting-paperwork/Intention The purpose of this whole project ties in with digitally having copies of things. This makes searching and sorting much, much easier. The only physical paperwork I keep are certain important documents (like birth certificates, physical driving licence, etc). Hardware I’m using a Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 as my scanner of choice, it was recommended by the Paperless project and it folds away neatly when not in use. I initially intended on this hardware being used wirelessly, which I’m sure it is capable of; but for the once a month or so I go through my paperwork I doubt it’s worth the hassle setting it up.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/japanese-neighbour-physics/Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/japanese-neighbour-physics/I was in a sparsely decorated white Japanese style house, with a few pieces of pale beech furniture dotted around. An older woman who could have been a neighbour came to the door and started a argument with me for no real reason, citing things that I couldn’t have done. I learned that this was whenever I created any light source, she would enter the house uninvited and start arguing with mehttps://minskio.co.uk/personal-vim-cheatsheet/Sun, 14 Jun 2020 12:58:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/personal-vim-cheatsheet/When editing files on Linux, I’ve always used nano, it was always installed and vi just seemed incredibly awkward to use, with all the memes about never being able to exit, and weird things happening being right up my street. I’d tried vimtutor but was left in pretty much the same place as I started. So, when the venerable Luke Smith posted an hour long walkthrough of his methods for completing vimtutor, I was hooked.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/stretchy-dog/Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/stretchy-dog/I was in the process of driving somewhere to donate blood, however I also needed to take my fictional dog to the dentists for whatever reason. I had to pull over on the side of the road to get my dog anaesthetized by a man in a white coat who was wielding a needle and a gas cannister. After the anaesthetist administered the sedatives, he began giving me long winded and confusing instructions about how to get to the dentist.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/business-connections/Sat, 13 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/business-connections/I was in a business school type setting taking with about 15 other students and a teacher who looked like Alan Sugar who took everything very seriously and had a short temper. In our last lesson we had to invent and present a fictional company. My company was called SN Xe and we supplied internet connections, no matter the location. But he price was insane, but we’d get you the speed you wanted, anywhere.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/conned-at-a-bar/Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/conned-at-a-bar/I was in a busy bar with a number of people from my past and Stephen Fry who was practicing telling dirty jokes for a game show where you competed against a computer. I was buying drinks however every time I went up to the bar to order, the price and complexity of the drink would increase and whenever you even queried the drink they’d start making it for you.https://minskio.co.uk/formatting-dumped-subtitles-into-a-vocabulary-list/Thu, 28 May 2020 16:52:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/formatting-dumped-subtitles-into-a-vocabulary-list/As per my previous post, you should now have a single srt subtitle file, to convert this into a single word list that you can begin translating away at, you can run the below verbose script. tr ' ' '\n' < subs.srt | \ sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' | \ tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | \ tr -d '\>\/!-.:?,.\",[:digit:]' | \ tr -d '…' | \ sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' -re 's/\s+$//' -re 's/\{.https://minskio.co.uk/unattended-installation-of-webp-codec/Tue, 26 May 2020 16:48:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/unattended-installation-of-webp-codec/I wrote this up many, many moons ago. I wanted a way to install Google’s WebP codec on Windows in an unattended fashion to complement my just-install script. What I eventually came up with was the following: rem cd to temp cd %temp% rem clean up old folders del %temp%\WebpCodecSetup.exe %temp%\7z1701.msi %temp%\.data %temp%\.rdata %temp%\.reloc %temp%\.text rd /s /q %temp%\7z1701 %temp%\.rsrc rem download installer bitsadmin /transfer installerDownload /download /priority normal https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/WebpCodecSetup.exe %temp%\WebpCodecSetup.https://minskio.co.uk/dumping-subtitles-using-ffmpeg/Sun, 17 May 2020 14:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dumping-subtitles-using-ffmpeg/As part of my ongoing language learning attempts, I tend to enable subtitles in the language I’m wanting to learn, and when I see a word I don’t recognise in the context I do I’ll make a note of it. This manual approach though can get a bit tiresome, so if you want a quick way to dump an entire subtitle file from a video, you can do the following:https://minskio.co.uk/languages/danish/Sat, 16 May 2020 09:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/languages/danish/Danish - English agern - acorn amerikansk - american ånder - spirits/breathinghttps://minskio.co.uk/languages/french/Sat, 16 May 2020 09:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/languages/french/French - English chat (le) - cat cheval (le) - horse chien (le) - dog c’ - it/that/this croissant (le) - croissant es - are est - is et - and femme (la) - woman fille (la) - girl garçon (le) - boy homme (l’) - man je - I mange - eats manges - eats (plural) orange (l’) - orange pizza (la) - pizza suis - am tu - you (familiar, plural) un (m), une (f) - a/an vous - you (formal, plural)https://minskio.co.uk/languages/icelandic/Sat, 16 May 2020 09:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/languages/icelandic/Icelandic - English á - on ári - year æ - increasingly æla - vomit ætli - going ætti - should aðeins - only aftur - again allir - everyone alltaf - always annan - another aþ - to bara - only besta - best bíll - car búa - live byrjaði - began dagur - day dóttir - daughter ég - I einmanna - lonely ekki - not en - than er - am/is/are ert - are faðir - father foreldrar - parents frá - from fyrir - for fyrr - earlier gera - make gerði - did gift - married halda - keep hann - he hélt - thought hefur - has heima - home hjálpaði - helped hjá - with hjólið - bike hjólinu - bike hjól - wheels hlaþa - charge/load honum - him horfiþ - disappeared hvar - where hver - each hverju - which í gær - yesterday í - in jó - christmas kannski - maybe kom - came kona - woman kynna - present má - can mér - me mínir, minn - my mun - will næsta - next niður - down og - and rík - rich rúminu - bed sagði - said satt - true sér - a segir - says setjast - sit sig - self simbabve - zimbabwe sitt - his/their sjó - sea skáld - poet skólann - school snéri - turned sól - sun syndi - swim þegar - when þú, þig - you því - because töluðum - talked týndi - lost úrinu - watch vandræðalegt - embarassing vanur - used to var - was veit - know við - we viku - week vinsælli - popularhttps://minskio.co.uk/languages/swedish/Sat, 16 May 2020 09:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/languages/swedish/Swedish - English absolut - absolutely accepterat - accepted akuten - emergency room aldrig - never alkohol - alcohol alkoholist - alcoholic alla - all alls - at all alltid - always allting, allt - everything alltså - in other words allvarlig - serious amerikansk - american andades - breathing andas - breathe andliga - spiritual andra - other ansikte - face ansvarig - responsible apelsin - orange ådrorna - veins åh - oh åka - go åker - go åkommor - disorders åkte - went ångest - anxiety å - on år - year artigt - polite ägg - egg äkta - genuine äldre - older älska - love ämne - subject ändå - still än - than är - is, am, are äter - eat av - of avsikt - intention bad - swimming bakåt - backwards båt - boat barn - child barnen - children behöva - need behövde - needed behöver - requires bergen - mountains berömt - famour beskrivning - description blannd - among blå - blue blåser - blows blev - became bli - become blir - gets blivit - been blod - blood blomma - flower bostad - home brukade - used brukar - usually byta - change certifierat - certified cirka - about ditt - your dog - died död - death dö - die drack - drank drake - dragon drar - pull, drag drastiskt - drastically drog - drug dryck - drink fjäder - feather flod - river gäst - guest goddag - good day grädd - cream gris - pig hallå - hello halvö - peninsula hej då - bye hej - hi hese - hoarse höna - hen/chicken ingår - included inte - don’t, not kamin - stove kommande - coming köp - buy krog - pub kund - customer mysig - cozy nästa - next område - area öga - eye oväntad - unexpected påsk - easter pga (på grund av) - due to, because of plan - floor, level pris - price radhus - townhouse redo - ready salu - sale sjö - lake slut - final, end, finish sötma - sweet stämmer - correct stuga - cottage, cabin svamp - sponge träffat - met tredimensionell - three-dimensional typisk - typical urval - selection utanför - outside utan - without utav - out of utbildning - training utomlands - abroad ut - out vacker - beautiful vad - what vandring - hiking vara - be varför - why våg - wave varm - hot varna - warn var - where växa - grow växter - plants vem - who verk - work vetande - knowledge vet - know vett - wit, sense vind - wind vinkar - waves visade - showed visar - shows visa - show vispgrädden - whipped cream vissa - some visst - certainly visste - knew visuella - visual vis - way vit - white vi - we vore - would vristen - ankle vulgärt - vulgar vuxna - adult ytterligare - further zooma - zoomhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/sweet-shop-in-a-city/Sat, 16 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/sweet-shop-in-a-city/I was in a sweet shop in a city like Amsterdam but by a coast. My girlfriend had picked out 3 random jelly type sweets and I was looking for something with more bite and flavour. The first item was a chocolate bar like munchies or a kinder bar, I don’t recall the second but the last thing I decided on was an old item from the back of a freezer that looked like a large double-width pack of light green aa batteries, there were maybe 30 in the pack and they were apparently Turkish delight flavoured ice cream sticks.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/pasta-bake-ingredients/Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/pasta-bake-ingredients/I’ve been invited to my aunt’s wedding but need to complete something called the long march before I could attend. It was a walk to the venue a long way north from my house. I’m in the process of making a pasta bake before I set off but the cupboards are missing a number of supplies so I go to a local corner shop where there are Asian children running around causing havoc.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/italian-social-situation/Sun, 10 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/italian-social-situation/I was in an Italian town with extremely narrow winding streets and to leave our accommodation you had to squeeze through what were effectively two twisting pipes that backed on to an old couples garden that also backed onto a road that wound around a cliff. Everyone else managed without any real issues but I’d knock things down from hooks in the tubes when I went through. One reason why we were going was it was my birthday and all my family was celebrating by eating a meal in colour-mismatched UPVC windows and door pub surrounded by privet hedges.https://minskio.co.uk/blotter-art-album-list/Wed, 06 May 2020 12:51:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/blotter-art-album-list/Some time ago, I came across a piece of LSD blotter art containing some 49 classic psychedelic album covers. I recognised quite a few immediately, but a few stumped me and as a fan of the genres I had to don my deerstalker and have a go at hunting them down. I’ve had this list for quite a while, but thought it would be interesting to share. Without further ado, I present you the full list:https://minskio.co.uk/sony-ps1-image-conversion-guide/Sun, 03 May 2020 16:52:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/sony-ps1-image-conversion-guide/Every now and then, when acquiring a PlayStation game from nefarious sources you’ll be presented with a folder full of mysterious files instead of a single expected single iso image or friendly bin/cue pair or chd. There are plenty of guides out there for Windows but none really covering the Linux side of things. This guide assumes you’re running Debian, or at least have access to the Debian repository of software.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/house-quiz/Sat, 02 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/house-quiz/I was in a large American style house that was dimly lit using neon lights. The main room was large but had branching rooms coming off it with a single person inside who would give you a riddle and you had to whistle the correct answer into a microphone. The second rooms question master didn’t know what his song was or what the clue meant (It was Taps) so he just badly whistled it himself meaning we got the full 3 points, minus 1 for the help he gave us.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/crimes-in-an-airport/Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/crimes-in-an-airport/I was in a large hotel that was connected to an airport and a number of other buildings like a sports centre, large library and school. We were given a list of tasks and different difficulty tiers which reflected the rewards you’d receive for completing them with their associated crimes next to each tier. Some people had been told about the tier system before so had a head start, so we were like under dogs.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/futuristic-assassins/Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/futuristic-assassins/I was in south Korea, seeming to tangle with assassins who mistakenly thought I was somebody else. Late at night, I ride a motorbike down the motorway and there was be a large scale accident involving multiple cars that I just rode through, ducking paramedics, firefighters and police. The police yelled at me for riding through such a place at such a time and not wearing a helmet. One of the paramedics yelled at me that I’d be like one if the injured who was soon to be dead.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/the-bathtub-and-the-hill/Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/the-bathtub-and-the-hill/Me and my girlfried are driving to a friend’s house in an old transit van towing a bathtub, as you do. We were driving through winding country roads and down steep hills so decided to ride the bathtub down the slalom of a hill as it was on wheels and could be steered. We put the van into neutral and let it follow us down the hill. Once we arrived at the town at the bottom of the hill we dodged a couple of chavs crossing the road on a red light in the bath and pulled over into a lay-by to wait for the van but it didn’t come so we figured it had gotten stuck on a corner so my girlfriend rode her bike back up the hill while I waited at the bottom and changed my socks for whatever reason.https://minskio.co.uk/flashing-skulls-to-a-thinkpad-x230t/Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:22:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/flashing-skulls-to-a-thinkpad-x230t/I’ve always been quite interested in the Coreboot project, and my laptop of choice (the Lenovo Thinkpad x230t) semeed to almost be supported. When I learned about the Skulls project it seemed like a perfect match. After a bit of research and on the advice of a few people who had gone through the process previously I picked up a CH341A USB programmer instead of the usual Raspberry Pi to do the actual flashing.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/european-kart-racer/Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/european-kart-racer/I was watching a YouTube video of a vaguely Central European girl in her twenties who modified regular but oldish road cars with high tech upgrades, like replacing systems and components with other things that you’d usually find around the house. She also drove smaller kart style racing cars called 275 cars. This was because the engines were all identical at 275cc, and installed into custom chassis on the day of the race.https://minskio.co.uk/2020-new-years-resolutions/Thu, 02 Jan 2020 14:40:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/2020-new-years-resolutions/Another year, another list. Here goes nothing. Continue to do: Bed by midnight Ketogenic diet Media directory logger One book a week Paperwork sorted promptly New additions: 65kg weight Brush teeth twice daily Config files to git repo Cure eczema Desktop Linux Document server processes more Dry January Finish started works (Discworld, Culture, Mortal Engines, etc) Idle steam cards Improve food journal and weight scripts Revert seedbox back to Hetzner using VPN Robust (and documented) backup process Run 5K at the gym in under 40 minutes Workout Regimen Potentials additions:https://minskio.co.uk/notes-on-sorting-photos/Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:50:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/notes-on-sorting-photos/My smart phone is an android device, it connects to my computer via MTP over USB and I store my photographs on cloud storage. Subsequently I want these pictures to be sorted, and I don’t want any duplicates. This entire process is structured around using ArchLinux. Below is how I complete this: Mount your phone’s storage I use simple-mtpfs to access my phone, this is installed from the AUR using yay:https://minskio.co.uk/languages/latin/Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/languages/latin/Latin - English domi - home dormit - sleeps ea - she ego - I ei - her es - are est - is (a) et - and femina - woman frater - brother in - in the is - he mater - mother mihi - my name - nomen non est - is not (a) non - not pate - father puella - girl puer - boy quid agit - how is quid - what quis - who salvete (plural) / salve (singular) - hello scribit - writes sed - but soror - sister studet - studies sum - am (a) tibi - your tu - you urbe - city vir - manhttps://minskio.co.uk/manually-fixing-malformed-aac-bitstreams/Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:21:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/manually-fixing-malformed-aac-bitstreams/Recently while running youtube-dl on Windows, ffmpeg wasn’t found in %PATH%, so it was unable to automatically fix the AAC bitstream. The file will play fine, but in the interest of completeness I still wanted this to be applied to my new files. Not wanting to alter my path variable for a one-off fix, I investigated the source code a little and found the FFmpegFixupM3u8PP function here. With that, you can now run:https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bus-toilet/Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bus-toilet/I was in a comic book store in York with friends and needed the bathroom. The only toilet available was a popup tent for some reason that was already occupied by a child who was having trouble but wouldn’t get off. We waited and waited until eventually trying to find another toilet. Eventually I found an open but abandoned looking toilet under a stone staircase on a hill. There were no stalls and it was laid out like a bus but with toilets instead of seats.https://minskio.co.uk/the-briefest-arch-linux-installation-guide/Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:33:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/the-briefest-arch-linux-installation-guide/Are you wanting an incredibly quick (to the point of being useless, or painfully truncated) guide for how to install Arch Linux on your computer? Do you want to throw caution to the wind, booting from UEFI using systemd-boot instead of the more usual GRUB? Are you interested in Wayland/Sway instead of a more traditional Xorg/i3? Do you want to use a swap file instead of a partition? Do you desire UK specific keyboard layouts and timezone, even if you don’t want them?https://minskio.co.uk/upgrading-a-samsung-officeserv-pbx-using-the-serial-interface/Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:55:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/upgrading-a-samsung-officeserv-pbx-using-the-serial-interface/Requirements: COM Serial port Serial to CD Audio cable Putty Firmware package ap30v501.pkm cs30v493.pkm dr30v501.pkm ms30v125.pkm rd30v501.pkm rt30v501.pkm ws30v501.pkm BootROM bt30v493.bin file Voicemail Package VM_L_UK.tgz TFTPD server OfficeServ Device Manager osdm.exe System Setup Cards The only cards you’ll need is something to connect up a digital phone to, so either a 4DM or a 2DM card in the middle slot to connect up a phone. DIP Switches To set the system into UK mode, your DIP switches must be set to 01000000.https://minskio.co.uk/migrating-lg-phone-link-contacts-to-horizon-integrator/Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:48:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/migrating-lg-phone-link-contacts-to-horizon-integrator/If you’ve used LG’s Phone-Link software for any reasonable period of time, you should have a large XML file in your %appdata%\PHONE-LiNK directory named Recent.xml. Make a copy of this and get it on a computer with a Linux environment. For this process, we’re going to need xmllint from the libxml2-utils package and xmlstarlet from the xmlstarlet package. Once these are installed, verify your Recent.xml file is the expected unholy mess we’ve come to know and love via less Recent.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/alien-decision/Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/alien-decision/I was on holiday with my girlfriend in a Latin American country that could have been Brazil. We were staying in a complex made out of stacked up shipping containers and napping in the sun. While people slept, everyone on earth was told via dreams about a species of tiny parasites that had invaded earth, enriching peoples lives with better physical and mental attributes and would usher in world peace under their rule This was entirely at the behest of the host though, and they would only enrich willing people.https://minskio.co.uk/manually-formatting-mounting-and-using-hetzner-volumes/Thu, 04 Jul 2019 15:40:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/manually-formatting-mounting-and-using-hetzner-volumes/I’ve recently moved all my server infrastructure over to Hetzner, and to date everything’s been going swimmingly. The default partition options though aren’t ideal, so I’m scrapping my existing volume and recreating it manually, properly. Firstly, login to your Hetzner account and create your volume: Volumes > Create Volume > Size in GB Name whatever Mount options Manual Create & Buy Now Now find the partition after logging into your server via issuing lsblk.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hide-seek-and-kill/Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hide-seek-and-kill/I was playing some kind of violent hide and seek game with groups of letting in tactical outfits in an old abandoned and dilapidated brick house. I was finding and the opposing team had all hidden under piles of leaves in a room. They all burst out at once with dogs in tow overwhelming me but one stayed behind to try to sneak and kill me. We ended up grappling in the leaves until I had my hands around his neck and was about to choke him out but he punched me in the chest, winding me.https://minskio.co.uk/creating-a-swap-file-on-linux/Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:03:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/creating-a-swap-file-on-linux/I’ve recently moved from a server with more than enough RAM, to a lower spec (and significantly cheaper!) VPS that still does 99% of what I want it to. The issue however is that with the reduced RAM there’s a very real possibility of running out and locking up the system. The easy (and cheap) solution is to add a swap file instead of repartitioning my disk space. The notes here work with a 1GB swap file, but feel free to change these if need be.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/firearms-and-airports/Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/firearms-and-airports/I was in an airport, but had an unloaded 1911 pistol in a manilla envelope that I’d received for some reason from a bank tellers desk near the checkin area. I was brazen about taking it through security. In the departure lounge I let some random guy hold it and he dry fired it against his temple. I got to security and a worker with a big white moustache called The Walrus was asking questions but eventually let me through with the gun.https://minskio.co.uk/concatenating-videos-on-windows-with-ffmpeg/Thu, 09 May 2019 09:21:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/concatenating-videos-on-windows-with-ffmpeg/I recently had a bit of a binge on the Japanese comedy show Gaki No Tsukai. This show is basically impossible to find officially so we’re heading to streaming sites (as linked on their subreddit) to get copies of the show. As these shows are usually multiple hours in length they’re going to be split into multiple parts. As expected, these files can be grabbed via youtube-dl, and then manually renamed into an easy to work with format (01.https://minskio.co.uk/upgrading-ubiquiti-routers-over-ssh/Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:55:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/upgrading-ubiquiti-routers-over-ssh/In the past, I usually check for ubiquiti router firmware updates via RSS feed, and to apply them I open a reverse SSH tunnel to the web interface and upload the file over this tunnel. This is somewhat inefficient however as you’re uploading firmware over a few additional links in a chain that aren’t really required. This guide is a simple repurposing of the following help article, albeit somewhat abridged.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/norwegian-lake/Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/norwegian-lake/I was staying at a large chateau in Norway with many other airbnbers, speaking with the guy who owned and ran the place. I mentioned that there were no trains in Norway and he explained that I just didn’t know where the station was and then gave me a breakfast of a waffle covered in maple syrup, sandwiched between large slices of shreddies. I ended up skiing on a frozen lake that was crystal clear but lightly covered by snow and when you dusted off the surface you could read things under the frozen water.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/italian-hill-climb/Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/italian-hill-climb/I was in an Italian coastal town with a group of other people I didn’t know. The streets were narrow, cobbled and very step. We were on a tour with segways that were connected horizontally through their axels and needed pedalling to move which was extremely difficult. One hill that we went up had a plateau that had an ice cream shop on it, where we stopped to all get ice creams.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/runescape-beetroots/Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/runescape-beetroots/My dad came to me with a collection of beetroots for whatever reason and asked about picking them but I didn’t know the process. I joked that there was a quest in runescape and we could compare the process so I signed in and went to Varrock to see the beetroot quest giver. As I collected ingredients required I went around a Lidl layout store using Runescapes movement system. After I’d collected everything I needed to, I went back to the quest giver and inadvertently attacked her instead instead of taking to her by using left click.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/supermarket-walk/Sun, 10 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/supermarket-walk/I was at work but left for some reason way earlier than I was supposed to, with the intention of picking up some lunch ingredients. I went to a petrol station to collect the goods I needed but while there was a girl from High school who I knew but she didn’t recognize me. I forgot what I needed at the shop and after dismantling my bag to try to find a list I eventually just left.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/arm-rocketry/Sat, 09 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/arm-rocketry/I met up with an old friend from high school who said he was working with electronics and rocketry nowadays and asked if he were to work on hardware if I’d work on the software as a favour to him. I agreed and later went around to his house. While there he had quite a professional lab setup and was soldering ball grid arrays on processors using a professional guide. He’d attached a small plastic bag over his nose to prevent himself from breathing onto the project and disturbing what he was working on.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dales-diamond/Sat, 09 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dales-diamond/I was staying at an old hotel in the Yorkshire Dales with about 10 other guests who were all there on the hunt for a mysterious diamond that had been believed to exist but had been lost to time. As a group, me and the other guests solved a bundle of problems while navigating around rooms. Some of the puzzles required multiple people to work together, lifting pieces of string while holding objects out of the way so the string could move freely to release further mechanisms in the puzzle.https://minskio.co.uk/archlinux-retroarch-guide/Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:46:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/archlinux-retroarch-guide/Installation The latest retroarch can be installed on ArchLinux simply with the following command: pacman -S retroarch No need to install any other packages, the online updater (below) can take care of everything. Launch retroarch to generate all your directories and config files. Exit by pressing the Esc key, and make the alterations below. Configuration Changes Edit $HOME/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg with your text editor of choice. Below are the values I’ve altered.https://minskio.co.uk/windows-10-network-share-guest-access/Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:47:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/windows-10-network-share-guest-access/I recently re-installed Windows 10, my edition of choice was the new 2019 edition of LTSC-N and as such I updated the prep script I use to provision a new installation. One thing worth noting however was that I couldn’t access this script stored on a remote Linux Samba share. After checking the server everything looked correct until I looked at the group policies enabled by default in this new LTSB/LTSC version.https://minskio.co.uk/automating-grabbing-payslips-for-use-with-paperless/Mon, 04 Feb 2019 11:47:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/automating-grabbing-payslips-for-use-with-paperless/My workplace has recently started sending out Payslips as email attachments instead of the usual physical sheet which I’m a big fan of, Paperless is always on hand to sort and process any paperwork I have which keeps things organised and under control. To tie all these processes together, we’re going to use getmail, mpack and qpdf. Please note that this will download your entire inbox every time so it helps if you don’t run the script too often, and keep your inbox size to manageable levels.https://minskio.co.uk/exporting-kodi-watched-status-to-markdown/Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:25:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/exporting-kodi-watched-status-to-markdown/As I’ve outlined in this page I’d prefer to save space on my server and delete movies once I’ve seen them but also keep a log so I don’t need to remember everything. Step in the Kodi plugin WatchedList which will happily export your status to a SQLite database that can be worked with as follows: if [ -f "movies.csv" ]; then rm movies.csv; fi sqlite3 -noheader -csv watchedlist.db "select title from movie_watched;" > movies.https://minskio.co.uk/suitecrm-sql-database-dump-to-csv-files/Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:18:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/suitecrm-sql-database-dump-to-csv-files/Recently I needed to dump our workplaces existing CRM database to a format that was easy to work with, namely CSV instead of the more likely SQL format. To do this easily and quickly I developed a small script that would automatically grab the SQL servers credentials from your config file and then dump the files all from a single file. Your config.php usually resides in the htdocs folder on your server.https://minskio.co.uk/duolingo-streak-preservation/Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:51:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/duolingo-streak-preservation/I’m a great fan of Duolingo, and while I have a number of issues with it I still consider it a generally useful platform for scratching the itch of learning a language. One incentive they employ is to have a daily streak, indicating that you’ve maintained your practice for a certain number of days without slipping up once. Now, for better or for worse, this streak is now something I take a humble amount of pride in.https://minskio.co.uk/ffmpeg-audio-conversions-for-pbx/Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:08:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/ffmpeg-audio-conversions-for-pbx/Firstly, grab a copy of ffmpeg from the official website if you’re running Windows, or your package manager if you’re running Linux. Samsung OfficeServ ffmpeg -i "input.ext" -codec pcm_s16le -ar 8000 -ac 1 -ab 128k "output.wav" LG/Ericsson eMG/UCP ffmpeg -i "input.ext" -codec:a pcm_mulaw -ar 8000 -ac 1 -ab 64k "output.wav" LG/Ericsson Hosted Platform ffmpeg -i "input.ext" -codec:a pcm_s16le -ar 8000 -ac 1 -ab 64k "output.wav" Panasonic NS700/NS1000 ffmpeg -i "input.ext" -codec:a pcm_mulaw -ar 8000 -ac 1 -ab 64k "output.https://minskio.co.uk/compiling-snapraid-on-debian/Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:43:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/compiling-snapraid-on-debian/Recently I discovered SnapRAID as a parity based backup tool and found it to be extremely flexible and powerful, and is currently the backup solution I’m using on my own home server. While not suited to every use case, my current setup (rarely changing, incremental additions) fills the whole perfectly. Debian doesn’t include snapraid in it’s repositories so we’ll download and compile it from source, naturally! Usually, I’d run this type of software through docker, however I generally prefer all underlying core services (samba/mergerfs/etc) to run on the host instead of inside a container.https://minskio.co.uk/2019-new-years-resolutions/Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:19:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/2019-new-years-resolutions/So long as I remember, I’ll try to update this list at the end of the year, with what’s been done and what hasn’t. Bed by midnight Cure Eczema Drink less alcohol Finish Danish and update Norwegian Duolingo Courses Idle steam cards Paperwork sorted promptly Reach then maintain 71kg weight Ruined by a December binge Store config files on GitHub Sunrise/Wake up lamp/bedside table Laptop Linux Hypothetical/2020 ones include: Cold(er/ish) showershttps://minskio.co.uk/downgrading-libreelec-skipping-compatibility-checks/Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:35:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/downgrading-libreelec-skipping-compatibility-checks/I run Libreelec on my ODROID-C2 SBC as a HTPC. The combination work surprisingly well and I rarely have any issues. Perhaps stupidly however, I updated from the stable 8.2.5 to the latest beta build to try out the RetroPlayer functionality. Long story short, this didn’t pan out so well and I ended up in SAFE MODE with not a whole lot working. I tried downgrading using addons but this also gave me some grief with compatibility checks.https://minskio.co.uk/resetting-windows-passwords-from-linux-with-chntpw/Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:58:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/resetting-windows-passwords-from-linux-with-chntpw/I came across a strange issue recently, where I needed to reset a users password however the computer was unable to boot from USB so my usual ntpasswd option was out of the question. Step in the ever userful chntpw which is available in the Debian repositories and can be installed via: sudo apt-get install chntpw ntfs-3g ntfs-3g is also thrown into the mix so you can mount the inevitable Windows NTFS partition with write permissionshttps://minskio.co.uk/scraping-and-grabbing-now-albums/Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:28:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/scraping-and-grabbing-now-albums/Recently a collegue at work came to me to download them an album from online, unfortunately as it was a compilation album and the individual tracks had been released a million times already this wasn’t to be released through the usual channels. No matter though, vague scripting to the rescue! The tracklist that I was after was available on the now website which had no issues being scraped. source=$(wget https://www.nowmusic.com/album/now-rock-n-roll/ -qO-) artists=$(printf "$source" | grep artist | sed 's/^.https://minskio.co.uk/ps2-image-cso-compression-on-linux-with-maxcso/Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:23:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/ps2-image-cso-compression-on-linux-with-maxcso/CSO was originally only intended for smaller PS1/PSP disc images, so a different version can be compiled to support the larger DVD based images that PS2 games are usually distributed on. sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential liblz4-dev libuv1-dev zlib1g-dev git clone https://github.com/unknownbrackets/maxcso.git cd maxcso make sudo make install Now that maxcso has been compiled and installed, simply compress all iso images in a directory via: for i in *.iso; do maxcso "$i"; donehttps://minskio.co.uk/concatenating-pdf-files-on-linux/Mon, 26 Nov 2018 13:29:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/concatenating-pdf-files-on-linux/A simple request, with an equally simple solution. Firstly I tried using my old favourite pandoc which will apparently only output PDF files, not input them. Some quick searching around lead me to pdfunite which did the job perfectly. Simple issue the following command to merge 3 files into one final output file: pdfunite page-1.pdf page-2.pdf page-3.pdf pages-out.pdf Be careful when specifying your files here as the last file will be overwritten if it already exists.https://minskio.co.uk/pandoc-txt-to-pdf-exporting-ecrm1000.tfm-issues/Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:41:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/pandoc-txt-to-pdf-exporting-ecrm1000.tfm-issues/Recently I was experimenting with paperless and importing a number of files to see how the software handled things. Over the course of this experiment the only files that didn’t seem to be accepted were plain txt files. A simple solution (or so I thought) would be to convert these to PDF, and just run the import again. Pandoc is my goto choice for all types of textual documentation management, so I threw the files through the following command:https://minskio.co.uk/removing-acsm-drm-from-e-books/Sat, 24 Nov 2018 10:22:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/removing-acsm-drm-from-e-books/Recently I found a rare-ish e-book available via the Internet Archive’s Open Library project, there was a waiting list and I wanted to read this on my Kindle without needlessly tying it up for other people wanting to read it. The combination of these two circumstances leads me to stripping the DRM from this file so I could work with it how I wanted. Firstly, you’ll need to install version 2.https://minskio.co.uk/gpt-formatting-new-drives-under-linux/Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:42:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/gpt-formatting-new-drives-under-linux/So, you’ve bought a shiny new hard drive and would like to format it and use it on your headless Linux server. For this guide, we’ll be partitioning it as a GPT partition to support sizes over 2TB, and formatting it as ext4. Find device id (/dev/sdc, etc): lsblk Edit the drive, using fdisk in GPT mode with: sudo gdisk /dev/sdc d n [enter] x5 w Make a partition: sudo mkfs.https://minskio.co.uk/windows-diskpart-formatting/Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:02:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/windows-diskpart-formatting/If you’ve flashed any live-bootable Linux ISO files or similar to a USB drive you may notice that when trying to format again to the full size it seems capped to the original size of the ISO file. A rough guide for resolve this how to do so is below: win + r diskpart list disk select disk 1 clean create partition primary format fs=ntfs quick label=Keyring assign letter=Z exithttps://minskio.co.uk/compiling-bsd-tar-on-linux/Fri, 09 Nov 2018 12:09:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/compiling-bsd-tar-on-linux/While researching Arch Linux ARM for the ODroid HTPC project, I came across an issue with unpacking the image. It turns out that Arch Linux ARM requires bsdtar version 3.3 or above, and only versions 3.2.x are available in the Debian and Ubuntu repositories. To resolve this, simply run the following: sudo apt-get install build-essential wget https://www.libarchive.org/downloads/libarchive-3.3.3.tar.gz tar -xzf libarchive-3.3.3.tar.gz cd libarchive-3.3.3/ ./configure make sudo make install bsdtar --version Now you’ll have the latest (at time of writing) version of bsdtar all working, all ready to proceed with the rest of the already convoluted installation guide.https://minskio.co.uk/languages/dutch/Thu, 25 Oct 2018 09:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/languages/dutch/Dutch - English a - een am - ben and - en apple - appel are - bent book - boek (het) boy - jongen bread - brood child - kind children - kinderen drink - drinken, drinkt eat - eten, eet girl - meisje (het) girls - meisjes has - heeft have - hebt, hebben, heb he - hij I - ik juice - sap man - man men - mannen menu - menu milk - melk (de) newspaper - krant read - lezen, lees reads - leest rice - rijst sandwich - boterham speak - spreken speaks - spreekt that - dat the, it - de, het water - water we - we, wij woman - vrouw women - vrouwen you (plural) - jullie you (singular) - jehttps://minskio.co.uk/borderlands-weapon-parts-breakdown/Mon, 01 Oct 2018 11:22:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/borderlands-weapon-parts-breakdown/Codes are intended for use with WillowTree#. Generally speaking, I tend to favour high accuracy and usability over pure damage output. Most of these items are tweaked and adapted from actual finds, and you’ll find all are well within the bounds of what can be found in-game. The class of choice is predictably the Siren. Weapons Hellfire gd_itemgrades.Weapons.ItemGrade_Weapon_PatrolSMG gd_manufacturers.Manufacturers.Maliwan gd_weap_patrol_smg.A_Weapon.WeaponType_patrol_smg gd_weap_patrol_smg.Body.body5 gd_weap_patrol_smg.Grip.grip3 gd_weap_patrol_smg.mag.mag3 gd_weap_patrol_smg.Barrel.barrel5 gd_weap_patrol_smg.Sight.sight3 gd_weap_patrol_smg.Stock.stock5 None gd_weap_patrol_smg.acc.acc5_Maliwan_HellFire gd_weap_shared_materialparts.ManufacturerMaterials.Material_Maliwan_3 gd_weap_names_shared.Prefix_Tech.Prefix_DTIncendiary4_Combustion gd_weap_patrol_smg.https://minskio.co.uk/selfhosted-password-manager/Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:30:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/selfhosted-password-manager/Passwords in my experience are a fickle thing, on one hand you absolutely need long and complex passwords, different for every site you use, but remembering these unique and complex passwords is nigh impossible. This issue is only made worse by brute forcing passwords being made easier every day as more and more datasets from large websites are leaked, showing patterns, schemes and weaknesses in unlikely places. Password Managers bridge part of this gap, but then you’re either relying on a third party to host these for you, or you’re using a locally installed application which both come with their own collections of baggage and issues.https://minskio.co.uk/compacting-a-virtualbox-vdi-image/Thu, 06 Sep 2018 12:26:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/compacting-a-virtualbox-vdi-image/Firstly, you’ll need to install zerofree on your Linux image, then mount the root partition as a read only volume. This can be done via: sudo apt-get install zerofree sudo apt-get clean sudo reboot # interrupt grub boot and boot into recovery mode mount -n -o remount,ro -t ext4 /dev/sda1 / zerofree /dev/sda1 shutdown -h now And now on the Windows Host: "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" modifyvdi "VirtualBox VMs\server\server.vdi" compact This should make the VirtualBox image more in line with the calculated size it should be.https://minskio.co.uk/languages/italian/Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/languages/italian/Italian - English acqua - water arrivederci - until we meet again beve, bevi (directed), bevo (I), beviamo (we), bevete (you), beviamo (plural) - drink buonasera - good evening buongiorno - good morning ciao - goodbye ciao - hello donna - woman donne - women è - is giornale - newspaper ha - has ho (I) - have io - I leggi, leggete - read lei - she libro - book l’, lo, il, la, gli (masculine), le (femenine) - the loro - they lui - he mangia (plural), mangi (singular), mangio (I) - eat mela - apple nello - in noi - we pane - bread ragazza - girl ragazzi - boys ragazzo - boy regazze - girls scrivo, scrivi (you), scriviamo (we), scrivono (they) - write scuola - school sei - are Sì - yes sono, siamo, siete - am, are tu - you uimini - men università - university un, uno (masculine), una un’ (femenine) - a, an uomo - man voi - you (singular), you (plural) zucchero - sugarhttps://minskio.co.uk/weight/Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/weight/8282.58383.58484.58585.58686.58787.5JanJanJanFebFebMarMarAprAprWeight (kg)Month Raw data 2026-01-01,84.9 2026-01-02,85.1 2026-01-03,84.5 2026-01-04,84.7 2026-01-05,84.7 2026-01-06,84.6 2026-01-07,84.3 2026-01-08,84.5 2026-01-09,84.8 2026-01-10,85.3 2026-01-11,84.5 2026-01-12,84.8 2026-01-13,84.8 2026-01-14,84.6 2026-01-15,86.0 2026-01-16,85.8 2026-01-17,84.0 2026-01-18,85.0 2026-01-19,84.4 2026-01-20,85.1 2026-01-21,84.5 2026-01-22,84.0 2026-01-23,83.9 2026-01-24,83.2 2026-01-25,84.4 2026-01-26,83.8 2026-01-27,83.9 2026-01-28,84.3 2026-01-29,84.0 2026-01-30,84.3 2026-01-31,85.0 2026-02-01,85.0 2026-02-02,84.3 2026-02-03,84.6 2026-02-04,83.2 2026-02-05,83.4 2026-02-06,83.8 2026-02-07,83.3 2026-02-08,83.6 2026-02-13,84.1 2026-02-14,84.2 2026-02-15,83.5 2026-02-16,84.5 2026-02-17,83.5 2026-02-18,84.6 2026-02-19,83.6 2026-02-20,84.0 2026-02-21,83.4 2026-02-22,84.3 2026-02-23,83.7 2026-02-24,83.2 2026-02-25,82.8 2026-02-26,84.0 2026-02-27,83.9 2026-02-28,82.3 2026-03-01,83.4 2026-03-02,84.6 2026-03-03,84.7 2026-03-04,83.0 2026-03-05,84.1 2026-03-06,84.4 2026-03-07,83.2 2026-03-08,84.2 2026-03-11,84.1 2026-03-12,84.2 2026-03-13,83.3 2026-03-14,83.https://minskio.co.uk/archived-movies/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 01:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/archived-movies/100 Things (2018) 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) 12 Angry Men (1957) 12 Years a Slave (2013) The 15:17 to Paris (2018) 21 Bridges (2019) 21 Jump Street (2012) 22 Jump Street (2014) 28 Days Later (2002) 28 Weeks Later (2007) 28 Years Later (2025) 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) 30 Minutes or Less (2011) 48 Hrs. (1982) 5th Passenger (2018) The 5th Wave (2016) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Abduction (2011) Abigail (2024) Abominable (2019) Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1990) Accident Man (2018) Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday (2022) Ace Attorney (2012) Ad Astra (2019) The Addams Family (2019) Addams Family Values (1993) Æon Flux (2005) The Aeronauts (2019) Agent Cody Banks (2003) Air (2015) Airplane!https://minskio.co.uk/archived-television/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 01:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/archived-television/11.22.63 3 Body Problem (1) Adventure Time Alien: Earth (1) Almost Human Altered Carbon American Gods The Andromeda Strain (2008) (1) Angel Cop Archer Ash vs. Evil Dead Attack on Titan (4) Avenue 5 Battle Angel Alita Berry & Fulcher’s Snuff Box Better Call Saul Big Mouth Black Books Black Lagoon Black Mirror (5) Bob’s Burgers (15) BoJack Horseman The Booth at the End (2) Bosch Bosch: Legacy (3) The Boys (4) Breaking Bad Brooklyn Nine-Nine Burnistoun Can’t Get You Out of My Head A Certain Scientific Railgun Chainsaw Man Channel Zero (2) Chernobyl Childhood’s End Clarkson’s Farm Cleopatra 2525 The Colour of Magic Conquering Northern China Cowboy Bebop (2021) Cowboy Bebop Creepshow The Crossing The Cuphead Show!https://minskio.co.uk/languages/japanese/Sun, 01 Oct 2017 09:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/languages/japanese/English - Hiragana - Pronunciation Alcohol - のさけ - Nosake Back (anatomy) - せなか - Senaka Bird - とり - Tori Blue - あお - Ahoh Cat - ねこ - Neko Cloudy - くもり - Kumori Daytime - ひる - Hiru Dirty - きたない - Kitanai Dog - いぬ - Inu Drink - のむ - Nomu Ear - みみ - Mimi Eye - め- Me Four - よん - Yon Good Afternoon - こんにちは - Konichiwa Good-bye - さよなら - Sayonara Good Morning - おはよう - Ohayou House - うえ - Ue I - わたし - Watashi Like - すき - Suki Night - よる - Yoru One (number) - いち - Ichi Outside - そと - Soto Read - よむ - Yomu Red - あか - Aka Room - へや - Heya Seven - なな - Nana Six - ろく - Roku Summer - なつ - Natsu Sunny - はれ - Hare Sushi - すし - Sushi Sweet - あまい - Amay Teriyaki - てりやき - Teriyaki Three - さん - San Two - に - Ni Vegetables - やさい - Yasai Want - ほしい - Hoshii Wear - きる - Kiru White - しろ - Shiro Winter - ふゆ - Fuyu Yes - はい - Haihttps://minskio.co.uk/languages/norwegian/Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/languages/norwegian/Norwegian - English absolutt - absolutely adgang - access adjø - goodbye adlyde - obey advare - warn advarsel - warning advokat - lawyer ær - honour ærlig - honest ærsord - promise afrika - africa agentbyrå - agency aggressivt - aggressive agurk - cucumber akkompagnert - accompanied akkurat - just, exactly aksent - accent akseptere - accept aksj - share alder - age aldri - never alene - alone alkohol - alcohol alle - everyone allerede - already allt, alt - everything alltid - always alminnelig - ordinary alpakka - alpaca altfor - far too altså - therefore alvor - serious ambulanse - ambulance amerika - america ananas - pineapple and - duck andel - share anke - appeal annenhver - every other appelsin - orange (fruit) arbeidet - worked arbeid - work å nei - oh no årsak - cause år - year å - to åtte - eight arv - heritage atten - eighteen at - that avslutt - exit avstand - distance ba - as bad - bath badet - bathroom bær - berry bakk - ground, floor bane - course, path bane - orbit både - both bål - campfire, bonfire båt - boat barnehag - nursery, kindergarten barnevakt - babysitter barnevogn - pram barnslig - childish basert - based basseng - pool befolkning - population begrav - bury begynne - begin, start beholde - keep bekreft - confirm, validate bekymre - worry, concern beløp - amount benk - bench berømt - famous beskrevet - described beslutning - decision beste - best bestemte - decided bestemt - specific bestill - order betalte - paid bevis - evidence bevissthet - awareness bevissthetstilstand - consciousness bevisstløs - unconscious bie - bee bilder - pictures bille - beetle bindersen - paperclip binders - paperclip blader - leaves ble - got, became blir - becoming, are blitt - become blom - flower blø - bleed blottet - lacking, devoid blyant - pencil bokstaver - letters bo - live, reside bord - table bor - live, stay borte - disappearing, away bortenfor - beyond bøk - book bølge - wave bønd - bond bønn - prayer bør - should bra - good, fine brakte - brought bringer - brings brød - bread bruk - use, wear brus - soda brygga - pier bryst - breast, chest budskap - message buss - bus by - city bygda - village bygger - building dagbok - diary dag - day daglig - daily danse - dance datamaskin - computer delayed - forsinket del - part den, det, denne, dette - that, this deprimerte - depressed dere - you (plural) derfra - from there der - there, here de - they, those dikt - poem direkte - directly disse - these djerv - bold dolk - dagger døde - die døv - deaf drap - murder dratt - gone drep - kill drept - killed dritt - shit drivhus - greenhouse dumt - stupid du - you (singular) dyr - animals dyr - expensive dyrke - grow edel - noble edelstein - gemstone effekt - effect egentlig - actually eier - owns eksempler - examples enda - another ende - end endelige - final endelig - finally endret - changed engelsk - english enig - agree enighet - agreement ennå - still, yes enn - than enormt - enormous eple - apple er - is eske - box evige - eternal evig - eternal, ever fæl - foul, ugly famili - family fantasi - fantasy, imagination fantastisk - fantastic fare - worry, danger farge - color får - receives, gets farlig - dangerous feber - fever feig - coward feil - wrong fenomen - phenomenon ferdig - done, finished fest - party (celebration) film - movie, film fin - fine finne - find fjern - remote flaks - luck flåt - fleet flask - bottle flau - embarrassed flau - embarrassing flaut - embarassing flere - several, more (countable) flink - good, skilled, clever fnise - giggle folkmord - genocide forbi - past, over, by (direction) fordi - because foretrekker - prefer forferdelig - terrible formål - cause formålet - purpose formasjon - formation forskjellige - different forsøkte - tried forståelsen - understanding forsto - understand forutse - predict forutsett - predicted følelser - feelings føler - feels før - before fotografi - photography fra - from frem - forward (direction) fremmed - foreign frokost - breakfast frø - seed frukt - fruit frykt - fear fryser, kalde - cold fugl - bird fuglekvitter - birdsong full - drunk fylke - county, province gal - crazy, mad ganger - times (quantity) ganske - quite garasje - garage gå - go gåsehud - goosebumps gartner - gardener geit - goat genbruge - recycle geniale - ingenious gift - married gitt - given gjennombrudd - breakthrough gjennom - through gjenskape - recreate gjenta - repeat gjerne - happily gjest - guest gjett - guess gjorde - did (action) gjøk - cuckoo glemte - forgot gnist - spark gravid - pregnant gress - grass grønnsaker - vegetables grøt - porridge grott - cave gud - god gyldig - valid hadde - had ha det, ha det bra - bye, goodbye hæl - heel hagen - garden hake - chin hakk - dent, notch hale - tail (animal) halv - half ham - him han - he har - has, have har lyst - want hatt - had hauk - hawk havfrue - mermaid havregrøt - oatmeal hei sann - hey there heisen - lift/elevator heksa - witch heldig - lucky hele - whole heller - either helse - health helt - totally, completely helvete - hell hemmelig - secret hengekøye - hammock heng - hang hennes - her hente - get, fetch herfra - from here her - here himmel - sky historie - history hit - here hjem - home hjemmefra - from home hjerne - brain hjørn - corner hode - head hodepine - headache hoff - court hopper - jumps høn - hen høy - high, tall, loud, etc høyre - right (direction, side) hotellrom - hotel room hule - cave humør - mood hund - dog hundemat - dogfood hun - she hva - what hverandre - each other hvis - if hvordan - how hvorfor - why hyggelig - nice, pleasant i dag - today idé, ide - idea idrett - sport i går - yesterday igjen - again i - in ikke - not i morgen - tomorrow import - import ingen - no, nobody ingenting - nothing inne - inside, indoors innenfor - within, inside innsjøo - lake intressant - interesting Irsk - Irish i stedet for - instead of jakt - hunt ja visst - certainly jeg - I (personal) jevnt - evenly jobb - job jo - on the contrary jord - earth, soil kaffe - coffee kakao - cocoa kalles - known kamp - fight kan - can kanin - rabbit kanon - canon kant - edge kasse - crate, box kaste - throw kile - tickle kinn - cheek kjæledyr - pet kjedelig - boring kjempe - giant (mythological) kjemper - giants (mythological) kjent - know, known, familiar kjøleskap - fridge kjøpesenter - shopping centre kjøre - drive (vehicle) kjøretøy - vehicle klag - complain kleint - awkward klem - hug kokt - boiled kollektivtraffikk - public transport kommer an - depends kommune - municipality, council kompost - compost kone - wife konjakk - brandy, cognac kontant - cash kontanter - cash kontor - office kor - choir kort - (credit)card/short koster - cost krabbe - crawl, crab krangel - argument krok - bait, hook kujon - coward kulde - cold kund - customer kupp - coup kurs - course, route kveld - night kvittering - receipt kvitt - rid lage - make lampe - lamp land - country langs - along lånt - borrowed låve - barn last - cargo lavt - softly ledig - free, available legen - doctor legge - add legger - puts, places leie - hire, rent lei - sorry leker - play (unstructured) lenge - long (time, distance) lettere - easier levde - lived lide - suffer lik - equal, corpse liker - likes likte - liked, enjoyed lommebok - wallet l&oring;ve - lion løsning - solution lover - promise lunsj - lunch lurt - wise lyd - sound, noise lys - light magefølelse - gut feeling malm - ore mange - many mann - man mappe - folder mareritt - nightmare må - have to, must måke - seagull måned - month maskin - machine matlyst - appetite med - with (mixed) meg - me melk - milk menn - men merk - mark mer - more (uncountable) mett - full, satiated midlertidig - temporary midnatt - midnight mindre - less mindre - smaller mindretall - minority minibank - cash machine/ATM mislykkes - failing mistet - lost misunner - envy mjød - mead modig - brave modne - ripe moro - fun møbel - furniture mønster - pattern mørk - dark motorsykkel - motorbike motorvei - motorway, highway motstå - resist mot - towards (direction) mulig - possible mvh (med vennlig hilsen) - kind regards mye - a lot of, much myk - soft mykt - soft mynt - coin mynter - coins mystisk - mysterious nærheten - this area nærstrid - melee, hand to hand combat nag - grudge ned - down nese - nose nikker - nods nikket - nodded noen - some, few, any (quantity) noe - something (action) nok - enough norge - norway norsk - norwegian nydelig - lovely, gorgeous nyere - recent, newer nyheter - news nylig - recently ny - new og - and om - about ombestemt - reconsidered ond - evil oppdaget - discovered oppfører - behaving oppførte - behave oppmerksomhet - attention opp - up oransje - orange (colour) øl - beer ønsker - wishes øre - ear ører - ears øye - eye øygruppen - archipelago øyne - eyes overskyet - cloudy overta - take over panne - forehead pappa, far - dad, father pålegg - topping par - pair, couple passerer - passing pass på - look out patrulj - patrol peis - fireplace pek - point penger - money pga (på grunn av) - because of, due to piknik - picnic pil - arrow pine - pain, torment plen - lawn plikt - duty ponni - pony pølse - sausage pønsker - scheme, plot praktfull - magnificent, amazing praktisk - practical pr&slash;verom - fitting/changing room pult - desk rakk - was enough rapport - report raseri - rage redde - save region - region regnet - rained reise - travel reke - prawn, shrimp rett - straight, direct ringt - ringed, rung rive - tear, demolish røre - stir rotøl - root beer rullestol - wheelchair særlig - especially sagt - said saks (en) - pair of scissors saktere - slower sammen - together samtale - conversation sangfugl - songbird sang - song sannhet - truth sannsynligvis - probably sans - sense sant - true så - so sa - said sa - say sats - rate sau - sheep seg - self seg selv - himself, herself seg - themselves seilbåy - sailboat seng - bed servitør - waiter setter - sits down, places sett - seen sfære - sphere sikre - sure, ensure sin - her, his sinne - anger, rage sint - angry siste - last sjalu - jealous sjarm - charm sjel - soul sjenert - shy sjokolade - chocolate sjømat - seafood skade - damage skader - injuries skal - shall, should skapning - creature skapninger - creatures skapte - created skål - bowl skatt - treasure skilt - badge, sign skinke - ham skinn - shine skip - ship skiv - slice skjev - crooked sko - shoe skrik - scream skulder - shoulder skul - shall skurk - villain skynder - rushes slagord - slogan slags - type, kind slange - snake slapp av - relax slår - hit, strike smilte - smiled smitte - contagion smittet - infected snegle - snail sola - sun solnedgang - sunset sommerfugl - butterfly sonde - probe sorg - grief, pain, sorrow søk - search sølv - silver søppel - rubbish, litter sørget - mourned søt - sweet sove - sleep spille - play (structured) spørsmål - questions språk - language spre - spread spurt - asked start - start stavkirke - stave church steke - fry sterk - strong stille - quiet stjal - stole stjerne - star stol - chair stolte - trusted straks - immediately strålende - glorious streng - strict stuebord - coffee table stund - while stygg - ugly sug - suck suksess - success sunne - healthy sur - acidic, sour svaie - sway svakt - weak svarte - answer, respond sykkel - bicycle sykler - bikes syntes - thought syrin - lilac tabbe - mistake tak - ceiling tankskip - tanker taper - lose tålmodig - patient tatt - taken t-banen - subway teaspoon - teskje tema - theme, topic tenner - teeth tidligere - earlier tilbud - offer tilby - supply, offer tilgi - forgive tilhør - belong til sammen - in total tilstand - condition til - until, to, of, with (separate) timer - hours ting - thing, things tjukk - fat tom - empty tosk - idiot tøm - empty tørst - thirty to - two trær - trees traff - hit trafikk - traffic tragedie - tragedy trang - tight transaksjon - transaction trappetrin - stair trapp - staircase travel - busy tredobbelt - triple treet - tree trenger, behøver - need trette - weary trik - trick trist - sad trodde - thought trodd - thought tro - faith, belief tror - believe, think trøbbel - trouble trøster - comforts true - threaten tunge - tounge tvung - force tyngdekraft - gravity tynn - thin typisk - typical tyrkia - turkey (country) uansett - anyway ubåt - submarine uhell - accident uke - week ulykk - accident umulig - impossible under - during unik - unique unnskyld - sorry, excuse me unntatt - except urt - herb usannsynlig - unlikely usynlige - invisible utenkelig - unthinkable utenlands - abroad utført - done ut - out utrolig - extraordinary utvalg - selection vær så god - enjoy, you’re welcome vær så snill - please vakker - beautiful valg - choice valgfrie - optional vanligvis - usually vanner - watering vanskelig - hard/difficult varebil - van våpen - weapon vår - our vått - wet våt - wet varvulven - werewolf var - was var - were vask - sink vei - way, road vekke - wake veldig - very venner - friends vennlig - friendly venstre - left (direction, side) ventet - waited verdt - worth verktøy - tool verk - work verre - worse versjon - version verst - worst vesen - being (human) veske - bag vet - know vik - inlet, cove viktig - important villeste - wildest vill - wild vil - want virkelig - real, really virke - seem virkning - result, affect vise - show visjon - vision viss - everything visst - certainly visste - knew visstnok - supposedly viste - showed vite - know vits - joke vi - we voksnes - adult vokste - grew voks - wax vold - violence vondt - hurt vrak - wreck vred - resentment vri - twist vulgært - vulgar vunnet - winning vurderer - considering ydmyke - humble yndling - favourite yngre - youngerhttps://minskio.co.uk/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/about/Hi, my name’s Peter. This blog is a rambling and verbose journey into my interests, journeys, problems, solutions and stances. As you’d expect from someone that owns rents their own server, I enjoy the usual nerdy ventures and generally try to self host the majority of online services I use. Things I enjoy or embrace, in no particular order (albeit alphabetical) include: Anti-natalism Botany and mycology Coffee culture Cooking and baking Cryptocurrency, especially Nano and Monero Georgism GNU/Linux and free software in general Hiking and Rucking Home cooking and OMAD diets Hypermiling INTJ Myers–Briggs Indicator Left wing politics Lucid dreaming Minimalism and Stoicism Napping Nordic language and culture Nuclear power Paperless paperwork PC focused gaming including retro console and computer emulation Pseudointellectual quotes Reading Rollercoasters and water parks Running Science, espcially physics and astronomy Scotch whisky and Irish whiskey Swimming Universal basic income Watching assorted movies and television, archiving when watched Some people I find interesting or inspirational:https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/african-museum-exhibit/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/african-museum-exhibit/A strange dream about working in a museum in an African plain who were in the process of releasing a new exhibit simply titled ‘It’s Shit’ which focused on how life and death were cyclical in nature and life revolves around individual processes working together. There were big models, demonstrating how life worked and guided tours available. We were just about to open up the exhibit and everyone that worked on it though it was very clever.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/airport-paperwork/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/airport-paperwork/I was conducting a lot of paperwork based tasks before arriving at an airport to get a flight to an unknown destination. There was a lot of travelling involved and 2 reams of paper bound with black tape on their spines. A number of people were commenting that it wouldn’t be possible to travel from point A to B before the flight departed but I was riding a futuristic motorbike. Seeing this, the people would block my way intentionally.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/airport-pizza-tractor/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/airport-pizza-tractor/I was in an American airport with my friends girlfriend waiting for a flight back to the UK. For some reason, my girlfriend was on a later flight but I still had her passport and ticket so we dropped them off at a reception desk. We were both quite hungry so we went on the lookout for somewhere to sit down and eat while we waited for the flight. While looking, we went through airport security and afterwards it was like a theme park and there were rolling tractor style steam powered pizza ovens driving around.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/alarming-journal/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/alarming-journal/I ‘woke up’ with vague, non-specific memories of a dream I’d just had. When I grabbed this book to start writing down my experience I flicked through it to find an available page but couldn’t find a single free page. Even the margins and free spaces for short dreams had been entirely filled with handwriting that looked like my mothers. While I continued searching for space, I heard an alarm noise sounding, so looked over to my computer where the noise was emanating to see that the time was 09:00.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/almond-flour-mug-bread/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/almond-flour-mug-bread/Servings: 1 Carbs: 2g per serving Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 90 seconds Ingredients 18g almond flour 15g butter 1 egg 1/2 tsp baking powder Process Melt butter in a microwave Add almond flour, baking powder and egg Mix thoroughly until homogeneous Transfer to a container the size you’d like the bread to be Microwave once more for 90 seconds Eat as is, or grill/fry for a crisper taste Source: Nicole Burgesshttps://minskio.co.uk/recipes/apple-crumble/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/apple-crumble/Servings: 6 Total Time: 55 minutes Ingredients Filling 7x Medium apples (Roughly 700g whole) 100g Sultanas (optional) 100ml water 50g Sugar 5g Ground ginger 5g Ground cinnamon Topping 150g Plain Flour 100g Butter 50g Sugar 30g Porridge oats (optional) Process Pre-heat your oven to 180°C Slice your apples into bite sized pieces. I personally leave the skin on, but feel free to peel them. Simmer your apples, sultanas, cinnamon and ginger in a frying pan with a splash of water for 5 minutes.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/baking-staples/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/baking-staples/ Almond flour Baking powder (not soda!) Cacao powder Coconut flour Coconut oil Flaxseed meal Liquid stevia Powdered Erythritol Psyllium husk powder Unsweetened chocolate Vanilla extract Xanthan gumhttps://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/bald-bastard/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/bald-bastard/I’d just arrived back from a week long holiday with my girlfriend. We were unloading the car and moving everythin from it back into the house. There was no space on the side of the road where the house was, so I was crossing the road for every trip. The speed limit on the road was 30 mph and as I was carry the final piece, a pink suitcase across the road a white truck driving towards me seemed to speed up with me almost not making it across the road.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/banana-bread/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/banana-bread/Servings: 8 Prep time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 60 minutes Ingredients 2x Ripe bananas (Roughly 300g whole / 220g peeled) 200g Brown sugar 100g Softened butter 2 Medium eggs 240g plain flour 10g baking powder Process Pre-heat your oven to 180°C In a large mixing bowl, crush your bananas into a thick paste Add your butter, sugar, eggs and mix thoroughly Once mixed, add in your flour and baking powder and again mix thoroughly Transfer to a parchment lined loaf tin and bake for 60 minutes then test doneness using a skewer Source: Mary Berryhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/baseball-and-chainsaws/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/baseball-and-chainsaws/I was staying at my parents house when I heard somebody pruning the trees in the back garden with a chainsaw. After they’ve finishing this they and a group of other people gather and start playing in the adjoining field. I go outside, to talk to the players and when I make eye contact with unknown tree surgeon he throws the ball against the house, catching it on the rebound.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/beef-stroganoff/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/beef-stroganoff/Servings: 6 Carbs: Approx 7g per serving Prep Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 60 minutes Ingredients 800g Beef cubes, thinly sliced 800g Mushrooms, sliced 500ml Beef stock 250ml Sour cream 250g Blue cheese, crumbled 1x Medium yellow onion, finely chopped 2x Garlic clove 1x tbsp thyme Olive oil Process Fry onion, mushroom, garlic and thyme in a little olive oil. Add beef, salt and pepper until browned. Add stock and simmer for 1 hour.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/beers-list/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/beers-list/Grams of carbohydrates per 100ml, then per bottle Name100ml (g)Bottle (g)ABV (%) Michelob Ultra0.623.5 Skinny Beer0.934 Marston's Resolution1.23.54.7 Budweiser Light1.54.63.5 Coors Light2.78.94https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/being-poked/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/being-poked/I’m staying over at friends house , it’s recognisable but has a different layout and looks more modern. We agree to go and watch a stage show and while I’m sat in my chair watching the show, I feel somebody poking my side. I push the hand away and it happens again and again. After the third poking I grab the hand and bend their fingers back. A female voice gasps in pain and it turns out it was my friends younger sister who was doing the poking.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/bnp-teacher/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/bnp-teacher/While in Sixth Form, I had a moderate amount of respect for an eccentric science teacher who took no nonsense, spoke his mind and was overall a very matter of fact kind of guy. Around this time, in 2008, there was a leak of the BNP membership database that when searched contained this teachers name, address and phone number. We knew from general conversations we’d had with him that this was definitely him.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bribed-to-move/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/bribed-to-move/I find myself in an empty car park attached to a hospital, I feel a little drunk and I’m having trouble thinking clearly and need to concentrate to be able to move. A friend of mine from high school is there and he’s trying to help me and is offering me sweets as an incentive to move. There are a few kids running around and other people I recognise from highschool.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/bribery-bakery/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/bribery-bakery/While at college, on our usual walks to the usual sandwich shop we used to have to walk past a significantly more upmarket sandwich shop and the owners had obviously noticed the rabble of teenage boys with jingling change in their pockets each and every day walking past. One day, on our way back we were ambushed by the owner of the shop who jumped out in front of us, thrusting a dainty package of assorted bakes goods at us, encouraging us to share them with our friends.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/british-documentary/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/british-documentary/In 1930-1940’s Britain a program slowed down peoples’ lives. One man drank a pint of milk for breakfast before going to work in a large industrial factory whereas his wife had tea and cereal. His wife made freddo bars and delivered them on a bicycle while the man marched into the factory with the other workers.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/buffet-blues/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/buffet-blues/I was at my friends house but the road to it had collapsed in certain parts and had been replaced with much steeper and sharper curving sections of road. My cousin was also there for whatever reason wearing a bloodied shirt, complaining about the food that had been supplied. A girl who was a neighbour had made some coleslaw but nobody in the family liked it so I ended up taking the whole bowl home after an awkward buffet tea after not a single person liked a single thing on offer.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/buying-wine/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/buying-wine/One of my friends was staying over at my house, he’d requested that we drink some wine instead of the usual beer. I had none in but it wasn’t especially late so I said I’d go out to pick some up. I walked to a local off-licence that sold jigword puzzle books and bought two bottles of wine. The wine bottles looked cracked and damaged and proudly said they were made from 100% recycled glass.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/canal-submarine/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/canal-submarine/I was dreaming about a guy called Chris Harlet who had built a single man sized submarine type vessel that could be rowed entirely by yourself by waggling your legs and clenching handles in your hands. He’d set a human powered canal speed record in this and was looking to take the technology further to improve the speeds. There was a video documenting this that showed a large wake and him passing a barge on the canal at high speed.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/car-carry/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/car-carry/Out of the total class of maybe 20 pupils, maybe four actually had their own cars and it was seen as quite a prestigious thing as our viable lunch radius was greatly expanded. As we were also dickhead teenage boys, we also used to mess about with these vehicles at certain points. One boy, known only as /Kenco/ as he was slightly tanned had a knackered old Ford which he was sat in one lunch time.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/car-door-latch/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/car-door-latch/When I was younger, I was out with my mother, we were about to leave the car and as I opened the door I saw the locking latch mechanism, I pulled down the latch and then tried to shut the door but it bounced back as the latch was already in place with metallic ring. My mum was furious, saying it was my fault for messing with the mechanism and that I had better fix it, immediately.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/car-snails/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/car-snails/While in college, out of our class of about 20 students everyone for the most part got along except for one person called Danny. He was an enormous guy, spoke with a thick accent and was just generally quite mean spirited in general. We mostly stayed out of his way, but every now and again we’d plot and scheme a little to inconvenience him in whichever small ways we knew we could get away with.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/cauliflower-mash/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/cauliflower-mash/Servings: 2 Carbs: Approx 5g per serving Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 5 minutes Ingredients 250g cauliflower 60g butter 30g grated parmesan Process Bring pan of water to a boil and cut cauliflower into florets Add cauliflower to water and boil until just beginning to get soft, then strain Add remaining ingredients to cauliflower and mash until smooth Add salt and pepper to taste Source: Diet Doctorhttps://minskio.co.uk/recipes/cauliflower-pizza-crust/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/cauliflower-pizza-crust/Servings: 1 Carbs: Approx 5g per base Prep Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 20 minutes at 200°C Ingredients 1 medium head cauliflower 100g parmesan cheese 1 medium egg Process Grate cauliflower finely and dry out in a dry pan on an oven, allow to cool for 5 minutes To a bowl add your egg, parmesan and cooled cauliflower Form into a 25cm ⌀ circle with slightly raised edges on parchment paper Cook for 20 minutes until golden brown then allow to sit for 5 minutes You’re now ready for your toppings and final 10 minute cooking Source: Chef Buckhttps://minskio.co.uk/recipes/celeriac-chips/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/celeriac-chips/Servings: 2 Carbs: 4g per 100g Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 45 minutes Ingredients 1x celeriac root Olive oil Salt Pepper Process Preheat oven to 200°C Slice away celeriac skin using a knife and slice into chip like fingers Drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper and distribute on a baking sheet Cook in a 200°C oven for 45 minutes before removing and allowing to cool Source: Selfhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/chalet-assassinations/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/chalet-assassinations/I was in a snowy mountainous region of France pretending to be Rosemund Pike’s boyfriend so she could assassinate somebody. For some reason her father came round and started serenading me in German. I ended up bear-hugging him so that he stopped singing and instead said “We don’t usually do this kind of thing on our vacations!” in a thick German accent. There were hidden messages in love letter that told Rosemund details of who and where to assassinate her target.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/cheese-crisps/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/cheese-crisps/Servings: 1 Carbs: Dependent on selected cheese Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 45 minutes Ingredients 50g pre-sliced cheese. I used Jarlsberg, similar types should work the same Spices Process Cut sliced cheese roughly into 1-1.5cm squares. Place cheese on a greaseproof paper covered tray spaced so none are touching. Heat oven to 80°C and heat for 20-30 minutes until cheese is shimmering and melted. Remove tray from oven and increase heat to 180°C, return cheese tray to oven when at temperature.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/cheesy-mushroom-soup/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/cheesy-mushroom-soup/Servings: 2 Carbs: Approx 4g per serving Prep Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 40 minutes Ingredients 600g mushrooms 150ml single cream 1 small onion 50g cheddar cheese 30g parmesan cheese 30g butter 1/2 tsp xanthan gum 1 chicken stock cube salt, pepper and garlic granules Process Finely dice your mushrooms and onion and add to a large cooking pot with butter When browned and softened, add salt, pepper, garlic, stock cube, parmesan cheese and cream, stir until well mixed Simmer with the lid on at a low temperature, adding your xanthan gum and cheddar as it’s looking nearly complete Cook for a final 5 minutes without the lid, stirring continuously Serve with freshly ground pepper Source: Selfhttps://minskio.co.uk/recipes/chicken-thigh-curry/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/chicken-thigh-curry/Servings: 6 Carbs: Approx 10g per serving Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 45 minutes Ingredients 600g chicken thighs 200g chopped tomatoes 40g creamed coconut 1x medium onion 1x green pepper 1x medium cauliflower 2x fresh chili peppers (optional) 1x bunch fresh coriander 4x tsp curry powder 2x tsp garlic granules 2x tsp cumin 2x tsp coriander 2x tsp smoked paprika 1x tsp cayenne pepper 1x tsp chili powder salt and pepper Process Chop onion and pepper finely and shallow fry in a deep pan until softened If using fresh chili, chop thinly and add to the pan Cut chicken thighs using scissors into roughly 2cm squares and add to the pan Add remaining ground spices and incorporate into mix Continue frying until chicken is cooked through, then add chopped tomatoes Using a serated knife, grate creamed coconut into curry and mix until right consistency In a separate pan, grate cauliflower and fry until slightly golden brown Finely chop your coriander, mix half into the curry and use remaining half as garnish Source: Selfhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/chinese-hotel/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/chinese-hotel/I was in a world where the majority of the population were zombies, but rarely seen. Me and the other survivors all banded together in a large hotel which had just finished being build but had never opened in mainland China and as such the door locks had never been configured correctly. There were bath tubs in every room and a swimming pool on most floors. We were avoiding another group of survivors that could become invisible for whatever reason.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/chocolate-cake/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/chocolate-cake/Servings: 10 Carbs: 5 carbs per slice Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 25 minutes at 180°C Ingredients 200g almond flour 100g powdered erythritol 75ml unsweetened almond milk 35g melted coconut oil 25g cocao powder 3 medium eggs 2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp vanilla extract pinch of salt Process Add together all your dry ingredients in a bowl and mix Add in your eggs, vanilla and almond milk and mix thoroughly Melt your coconut oil and mix that too Pour mixture into a baking tin, baking for 25 minutes at 180°C Allow to completely cool in cooking tin before serving Source: The Diet Chefhttps://minskio.co.uk/recipes/chocolate-chip-cookies/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/chocolate-chip-cookies/Servings: 12 Carbs: Approx 2.5 carbs per Cookie Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes at 180°C Ingredients 170g Almond Flour 100g Melted butter 120g Erythritol powder 50g Sugar-free chocolate chips 1 Large egg 1/2 tsp Baking Powder 1/2 tsp Xantham Gum 1/2 tsp Salt 1 tsp Vanilla extract Process Mix together melted butter and erythritol in a mixing bowl. Add vanilla extract and egg, continue to beat until mixed.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/chocolate-fudge-brownies/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/chocolate-fudge-brownies/Servings: 16 Carbs: Approx 4 carbs per brownie Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 25 minutes at 180°C Ingredients 175g Melted butter 100g Erythritol powder 175g Sugar-free chocolate chips 75g Almond flour 40g Cacao powder 3 Medium eggs 1/2 tsp salt Process Melt chocolate in a double boiler. Mix in melted butter, sweetener, eggs, salt and cacao powder and mix well. Once mixed, add almond flour and continue to mix.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/chocolate-lava-cake/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/chocolate-lava-cake/Servings: 2 Carbs: 3g Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 10 minutes at 180°C Ingredients 55g Sugar Free Chocolate 55g Butter 3 1/2 tbsp Erythritol 1 1/2 tbsp Almond Flour 2 Eggs Beaten Process Melt chocolate and butter in a microwave Mix in sweetener, almond flour and eggs Split into two oven safe dishes and bake at 180°C for 10 minutes Source: Rule Ketohttps://minskio.co.uk/recipes/chocolate-mousse/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/chocolate-mousse/Servings: 6 Carbs: Approx 3g per serving Prep Time: 15 minutes Cooling Time: 1 hour Ingredients 300ml Double cream 30g Cacao powder 30g Erythritol powder Process Add cream to large mixing bowl and sieve in cacao and erythritol and beat until soft peaks form. Portion into serving bowls and cool in the fridge for an hour. Source: Head Bangers Kitchenhttps://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/clock-mathmatics/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/clock-mathmatics/During year four in junior school we had a teacher who I found absolutely terrifying, at the time I was also struggling with maths and couldn’t really do my multiplications quickly or accurately. Given time I’d eventually find the solution but the inevitable wait was agonising. The teacher in question had a game where he’d draw a clock face on the black board, make everybody in the class stand up and randomly pick classmates, pointing at random numbers on the clockface while shouting “Six times…” “Three times…” and so on.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/clocks-on-a-train/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/clocks-on-a-train/I was on a train with my boss from work , it was very old fashioned and I was unsure of where we were actually going. There were a lot of clocks in the carriage and suddenly one started to ring like a bedside alarm clock. We were looking around the carriage for around five minutes to find which one of the clocks had gone off. My boss eventually went over to a large silver bowl of sand on the table next to us and starts digging with his hands.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/coconut-flour-breadcakes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/coconut-flour-breadcakes/Servings: 6 Carbs: Approx 2.5 carbs per Breadcake Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 25 minutes at 180°C Ingredients 60 grams Coconut Flour 2 tbsp psyllium husk powder 1/2 tsp Baking powder 1/4 tsp Salt 190 ml warm water 3 Large eggs 60g Melted butter Process Add all dry ingredients (except cooking butter) into a bowl and mix. Melt butter in a microwave and add that, the eggs and the warm water to the mix.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/coconut-flour-peanut-butter-cookies/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/coconut-flour-peanut-butter-cookies/Servings: 8 Carbs: Approx 3 carbs per Cookie Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 12 minutes at 180°C Ingredients 120g Smooth peanut butter 2x Medium eggs 60g Erythritol powder 1tsp Vanilla extract 27g Coconut flour Process In a bowl, thoroughly mix eggs, sweetner, and vanilla extract and peanut butter Slowly add coconut flour, mixing throughout until homogenous Split dough into 8 rounds and flatten with a fork into desired shapes Bake for 12 minutes at 180°C until golden.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/coconut-flour-roti/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/coconut-flour-roti/Servings: 4 Carbs: Approx 3 carbs per Roti Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 10 minutes Ingredients 60 grams Coconut flour 240 ml Warm water 2 tbsp Psyllium Husk powder 15 grams Butter 1 tsp Salt 30 grams Butter (for cooking) Process Add all ingredients (except cooking butter) into a bowl and mix. Add warm water and mix using a spatula until a dough forms. Portion the dough into 4 equal rounds.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/computer-repair-race/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/computer-repair-race/As part of our college work we had to scavenge old, broken and unused laptops, desktops and servers and see what would successfully boot up. First one to see a desktop won, as it was also a competition. I tried with a server but couldn’t get around a BIOS password so tried a Pentium 3 laptop that booted up first time and even played the welcome to windows jingle. The teacher declared me the winner.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/constant-collisions/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/constant-collisions/I was driving my car through a rough part of my town and had to disturb a load of kids who were playing in the road to get through. Some threw snowballs and balls at the car, whereas others just gave me funny looks. After that were were a lot of dogs roaming around, after seeing three wanting to get out of the road I asked somebody who was doing gardening by the side of the road where they’d come from but she didn’t know.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/construction-work/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/construction-work/The junior school that I attended to was an old, sandstone, Victorian building. During lunches, me and a couple of my friends would play a game called construction work in which we’d take paperclips, unfold them and then slowly chisel away at the stonework of the building and playground. One memory that really sticks out in my mind was of the group of three or four of us, one of us had decided to start this construction work on the head teachers offices’ window sill which we all thought was risky, but very cool.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/creamy-mushroom-pasta/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/creamy-mushroom-pasta/Servings: 4 Total Time: 35 minutes Ingredients 500g spaghetti 600g chestnut mushrooms 300ml cream 200ml brandy 1x diced medium onion 80g tomato puree 50g grated parmesan Fresh parsley Olive oil Process Bring a pot of salted water to the boil Fry off mushrooms in a frying pan using olive oil, when browned set aside on a plate Add onion to pan and fry until soft, add tomato puree and stir frequently Add spaghetti to boiling water, cook until 1 minute less than al-dente Add brandy to the onions and tomato, deglaze pan, add 200ml pasta water Cook sauce for 2 minutes and add cream, bring to a simmer Season with salt and pepper, add the mushrooms and pasta to sauce Add grated cheese, if the sauce is dry add more pasta water Source: Sip and Feasthttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/creative-writing/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/creative-writing/I was a teacher in a classroom of about 25 kids, it was the start of the day and I’d given them all an assignment to write a script for a movie featuring people they knew. As an example, I’d started telling a story about a boy from class but predictably nobody knew him so the example didn’t work. I needed to piss quite badly so left the classroom to look for a toilet.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/crossroads-brawl/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/crossroads-brawl/I was driving through a set of crossroads on the way to work, there were a lot of people milling around the crossroads, standing around and arguing. Straight ahead an argument between two chavs had broken out into a fist fight. They rumbled towards my stationary car and I started yelling at them to keep away as the traffic lights changed and I started to move past them. Shortly after my car stalled and wouldn’t start again.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/cubed-car/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/cubed-car/I had an old car that needed disposing of so my father told me to take it to the scrap yard to get it turned into a cube. We got the car started and I drove it down while my father drove my newer replacement car . When we got there I moved the cars around so the older car was closest to a robotic crane but it picked up my newer car instead and crushed it into a cube before I could stop it.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/cutting-my-own-hair/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/cutting-my-own-hair/For whatever reason I’d chosen to cut my own hair and eyebrows with a pair of hair trimmers but refused to use a mirror. I’d also bought some ‘warming glow’ skin cream that was good for your skin and was applied with a hair drier type device. Later, at work I was speaking to an employee who didn’t mention anything about my hair but afterwards I looked in a mirror in the bathroom to find I had shaved the inner halves of my eyebrows, had a hair style like Guile going through chemo and was incredibly darkly tanned.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dads-army-sapper/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dads-army-sapper/The world has been overtaken by large and powerful monkeys, ala Planet of the Apes. I was with the original cast of Dad’s Army planning to storm the gym and sports area of my high school. For some reason Private Frazer had decided that he would create a large explosion using a blowtorch and some pieces of metal piping. The apes didn’t seem particularly violent and one even helped me personally enter the building.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dangerous-dogs/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dangerous-dogs/A chavvy family that lived near me were in posession of multiple dangerous dogs that would regularly bark loudly. I was around at their house for whatever reason, the dog was quite large and fat and had an unreasonable amount of sharp teeth and would playfully snap at my legs as I sat down in an arm chair. As I was leaving, the dog indicated that it wanted to go out for a walk but nobody in the house could be bothered to let it out and they argued about whose responsibility it was, the other two dogs in the house were running around yapping.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/dauphinoise-courgette/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/dauphinoise-courgette/Servings: 2 Carbs: Approx 2g per serving Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 40 minutes Ingredients 1 medium courgette 80g cheddar cheese 60ml double cream 10g melted butter 1 tsp garlic powder sprinkling xanthan gum black pepper Process Thinly slice your courgette and grate your cheese Layer courgettes and cheese repeatedly like a lasagne Add butter, cream, garlic powder, xantham gum and pepper to a bowl and mix Drizzle this mixture evenly over the layered courgettes Cook at 180°C, uncovered for 40 minutes Source: Nicole Burgesshttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/defacing-crucifixes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/defacing-crucifixes/Me and some friends from school are leaving a house party in the middle of the afternoon in the local town. As we walk alongside the library we come across a huge gothic looking church with an ornately decorated crucifix outside with names engraved around it in the black marble. We agree that it’s cool looking but one of us says that he plans to steal it. He throws a small pebble at the crucifix and manages to knock out the middle of one of the letter O’s.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/delvin-university/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/delvin-university/I was at a university in Canada called ‘Delvin University’ or something similar. We were told very little and I never actually got into any actual classes. There was a lot of conflicting information about timetables and scheduling and we seemed to have to work things out for ourselves almost like a test of sorts as the teachers spun the story but in reality things were just very poorly planned. Some students had already been there for weeks and still didn’t have a timetable that made sense.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/desert-derealization/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/desert-derealization/I’m staying at my grandparents house, I’m aware that there’s something not quite right with the world and in my dreams I’m being followed by voilent gangs of teenagers but I know it’s not real. When I wake up to write down the dream, the world is different again and people refuse to acknowledge the existence of this book and it’s contents. I’m now in a futuristic black, white and red house themed house surrounded by a dark red desert with brown cactuses.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/desert-diner/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/desert-diner/I was driving a school friend and a girl I didn’t recognise along a dusty desert road in a 50’s esque cruiser car with barely working brakes. My friend was criticising my driving after we had to swerve to avoid hitting a steam train on a crossing due to the brakes, so later when we pulled up at an old portacabin type restaurant with a garage attached I said he could drive to shut him up.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/desert-party-explosion/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/desert-party-explosion/I’m attending a surprise birthday party in the desert at somebody’s house. We’re all wearing colourful masks but the birthday girl doesn’t know it’s a surprise party and believes we’re all maliciously messing with her. Eventually the party gets going. As the party begins to die down I go to the garage connected to the house to repair a tyre where I can hear a gas leak. One of the drunken party guests runs towards me carrying a candle and I yell out for him to stop and attempt to run away but there’s a huge explosion behind me due to the gas buildup.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dessert-restaurant/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dessert-restaurant/I was on holiday in a far-eastern country in the 90’s. I asked a rickshaw driver to drive around and show me the sights but instead he drove me straight to a restaurant that only served desserts. I tried to explain that I didn’t want any as they were all huge and covered with various glazes and chocolate spreads but he seemed personally insulted that I didn’t want to try one of his favourite desserts.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/digging-on-an-island/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/digging-on-an-island/I’m staying a a sandy floored cave excavated from a cliffside on a smallish island, hiding from packs of large blue lizards. We have a boat moored up at the bottom of the cliff which we use to visit other surrounding islands. On one islands beach we land on, we try digging in the soft sand and find “artefacts” like TV remote controls and pieces of guttering. As we continue digging, we find a large plane propeller attached to it’s still functional engine.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dilapidated-basement/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dilapidated-basement/I was at one of my friends house, in his basement for whatever reason. There was a brick staircase that had collapsed over time there too. There was a white UPVC door with a glass window in it that lead outside where there were stacks of roof files that had fallen off and a postage box from a religious group that had cookies inside that were dated best before 2006.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dog-train-station/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dog-train-station/I was in a bathroom in a red brick school when a school friend stood next to me having a piss and explained he needed his dog to go home. I agreed to help him as it was my last class of the day. I put the Shibe dog in my car when another different school friend said she needed something or other relating to a train station and a cheap looking pair of black heeled shoes.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dogs-and-otters/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dogs-and-otters/I was at home with my family and we’d just moved in to a terraced house when our new next door neighbour came in to welcome us to the street. They had three dogs that immediately ran indoors and were playfull snapping at one another and a large otter that sat on the threshold to the house. They had a chinese son who stood back from the rest of the family and was just stroking the otter.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/doner-kebab/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/doner-kebab/Servings: 4 Carbs: Approx 1g per serving Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 35 minutes Ingredients 500g lamb mince 1 tsp Garlic granules 1 tsp Cumin 1 tsp Cayenne Pepper 1 tsp Oregano Process Add mince and spices to a bowl and mix thoroughly Form mince mixture into thick sausage shapes and wrap tightly in tin foil Place in the oven for 30 minutes Remove from oven, and thinly slice with a knife and fork Grill for 2-3 minutes and serve with salad if desired Source: Mob Kitchenhttps://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/double-bus-lane/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/double-bus-lane/I was working in Leeds programming and replacing a router for a new Internet connection, on my drive back I needed to turn left however the left lane was a bus lane. I drove a certain way down until I was fairly confident the bus lane had ended and turned left. No harm, no foul. I ended up returning to the office, then needed to go back out as the replacement router didn’t support as many VPN clients as the old router did.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dragon-attack/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dragon-attack/There was a large metal portacabin in an underground cave that you had to spend time in to be considered ‘The Best Jew’. there were other tests but nearly everybody that tried this test failed it. I was called out as I had failed it after about a minute. Thinking that the test was somehow unfair, I spoke with a military general type person who told me that the test was about judging whether people were worthy to wield the ‘Ultimate Jewish Armour’ to fight ‘The Final Battle’.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/driving-on-a-steep-road/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/driving-on-a-steep-road/I was dropping a woman named Anita off at a park near my house. She wanted dropping off at the end of a path that was just wide enough to drive down but as I drove along the path the air started getting misty and the paths sides were getting steeper and steeper. At one point I missed the path and accidentally started to roll the car down the side of the path which was now as steep as a hill.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/dropped-drillbit/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/dropped-drillbit/The nursery I attended was train themed as it was next door to a train station, from what I recall the actual building itself was a couple of converted train carriages. One lunch time, I was playing with a plastic drill that had interchangeable bits that would light up and make noise when you pulled the trigger. While changing these drill bits I dropped one of them and the piece fell down a gap between the building and a staircase that wasn’t especially well guarded against things like this happenening.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dumping-industrial-waste/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/dumping-industrial-waste/I was the owner of a red brick end terrace house that looked out over a lake. People swam in the lake but industrial waste tipping was a big problem so me and my girlfriend logged details of when this was happening so we could report them to the police. Base on these logged details, some chavs came to my failing car showroom business and threatened to damage the cars. I started a fight with one of them and the rest ran off.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/earthquake-in-a-skyscraper/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/earthquake-in-a-skyscraper/At work, I offered to help a new company called ‘Reggule’ that was in the process of moving in move some boxes around. While working, they asked me about a new phone system. We were working in a modern tower building in a city in the United States with a cinema at the top of the building as the owner was an eccentric movie buff. I stayed for the intro video of the company but during this an earthquake hit and I was oblivious to it, even though this was recorded as ’the big one’.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/eiffel-tower-pub-quiz/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/eiffel-tower-pub-quiz/Me and a friend were on a pub quiz team together against a second team of my other friends, and his wife. You were given a load of questions already on one side of paper before opening an enevelope containing the subject of the questions. It was the Eiffel Tower and we didn’t know any of them as they weren’t interesting things, just copy/paste statistics from Wikipedia. We didn’t get any questions right but my friends’ wife knew every answers without any issues.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/exam-executions/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/exam-executions/I’m at high school and the year end tests are coming up, and if you fail them you’re executed. I was getting changed from casual clothing into my school uniform in a bathroom stall that uses a squat toilet. During this process of getting changed I somehow lose my shirt, tie and trousers and try to ask an exam invigilator for help, but the bathroom had already been sealed as the exam is about to begin.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/faint-notes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/faint-notes/I was in my second year of sixth form on my first day of the school year, I’d poorly planned and had a load of camping equipment in my backpack that was useless and about four or five old wooden rulers. My first class was English Literature and I barely understood what was going on and nobody would help me, not even the smart girl who I was sat next to.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/famished-policeman/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/famished-policeman/I was in the car park at work before work started, our usual phone system installer had been called from an install due to being pulled over by the police. He was escorted back to the office with the police and instructed us that the police wanted to check over everything, to such a level that it was almost harassment. I was escorted to my car in the car park where I showed the police officer my drivers licence and he was asking why I didn’t have my passport with me, only my licence.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/farmers-foxes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/farmers-foxes/I was walking to school through a wooded valley with my whole family. I’m wearing steel toe capped boots and suddenly a fox starts running towards me. I pull back my foot and kick the fox as hard as I can, where it goes flying in an arc, landing some distance from us. A dog we have with us for some reason bolts after the fox and chases it onto a farmers land before attacking it, making lots of noise.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/farmhouse-dogs/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/farmhouse-dogs/I was staying at one of my friends houses in the countryside, surrounded by fields, drystone walls and distant farmhouses. We were also in a hard rock band but that doesn’t seem important. We went outside and played catch with his dog, a large, dopey border colie. As we continued playing and getting further away from the house, a number of other dogs and a single cat (that wanted to be part of the pack, and had been accepted after learning to make a strange woofing like meow noise) came to us and we were all playing together.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/fathead-dough/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/fathead-dough/Servings: 2 Carbs: Approx 9g per serving Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes at 200°C Ingredients 200g Shredded mozzarella cheese 100g Cream cheese 100g Almond flour 1 Medium egg 1/2 tsp salt Process Add mozzarella and cream cheese to a mixing bowl and microwave until melted and mix together. Add remaining ingredients to mixture and mix together well. Split dough into servings and flatten into discs between two pieces of baking parchment.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/first-donation/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/first-donation/While I was in high school, we’d heard rumours that you could miss lessons if you donated blood whenever the blood people visited in their truck. Never one to turn down the possibility of a little skive here and there, I signed up during a science less and spent the next 30 minutes laid down in a chair donating blood, eating biscuits and feeling quite pleased with myself. Since that day, I continued donating blood and legitimately look forward to my appointments.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/fistful-of-bones/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/fistful-of-bones/I was at work eating smoked mackerel and everybody in my office was complaining about the smell of it. A couple of people in a nearby other office were also eating it and having issues with the bones. I had hundreds of bones that I would pull out while I chewed the fish which I threw in the bin by the handful. In the bin, the bones began to knot together.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/flapjack/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/flapjack/Servings: 8 Total Time: 35 minutes Ingredients 250g Salted butter 180g Golden syrup 200g Brown sugar 400g Porridge oats 1/2 tsp ground cimmamon Optional: sultanas, chopped nuts, seeds Process Pre-heat your oven to 180°C Spread butter around an oven safe dish to prevent sticking Mix together all ingredients, folding the butter throughout Spread mixture into dish, trying to keep the depth below around 40mm Bake for 25 minutes, remove from oven, then score.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/flexseed-meal-mug-bread/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/flexseed-meal-mug-bread/Servings: 2 Carbs: 1g per serving Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 2 minutes Ingredients 37g flaxseed meal 30ml water 2g baking powder Pinch salt 1 medium egg Process Mix all ingredients in a microwave safe dish Mix thoroughly until homogeneous Microwave for 2 minutes and remove from container once done Eat as is, or grill/fry for a crisper taste Source: Vernazhttps://minskio.co.uk/recipes/flaxseed-wraps/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/flaxseed-wraps/Servings: 2 Carbs: 1g per serving Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 5 seconds Ingredients 55g flaxseed meal 80ml hot water pinch salt Process Boil your water in a pan, add your flaxseed meal and mix until a ball of dough forms Allow dough to cool and split dough into 2 and roll out between greaseproof paper until a thickness of around 1.5mm Transfer to a non-stick frying pan and heat for a minute or two on each side Source: NutritionRefinedhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/flowing-taps/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/flowing-taps/I ‘woke up’ to the sound of running water and left my bed to investigate. In the bathroom, the cold water tap on the sink was running at full force and the sink was rapidly filling up. I quickly turned off the tap and removed the plug and the water began to drain away. I turned around, ready to go back to bed but then I heard the tap on the sink filling up again.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/football-gig/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/football-gig/I was at a music gig with my girlfriend, a school friend and his girlfriend. There were plenty of acts to see but it was our turn to see Noel Gallagher. It was absolutely bouncing it down with rain and the gig consisted of the whole audience playing football as a single team against Noel on stage wearing a mech suit made of bamboo all while he was singing. After the gig we went to get our stuff from lockers but we couldn’t find my posessions in locker F-22 because none of the lockers were in alphabetical or even sequential order.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/football-tournament/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/football-tournament/I’m back at high school and my whole class from year 11 is sneaking up a grass banking to try to compete in an officially organised football tournament. When we get to the top of the banking to the astroturf we’re all presented with colour coordinated shirts and sweatbands but when I try to put on my sweatband it’s too small and breaks. My P.E. teacher tells me I’ll receive a lower mark if I don’t play in a sweatband, I reply to her that I don’t care.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/friendly-drug-advice/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/friendly-drug-advice/Me and a group of my friends were out in a town that looked like Pudsey, for whatever reason early into the evening we decided to take a single ecstasy pill and were just beginning to feel its effects. One of my friends said that he needed us to roll him two joints so we sat down in a booth and me and another friend tried our best to roll the joints with large eucalyptus leaves that the friend insisted we use instead of papers.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/frozen-gym-class/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/frozen-gym-class/I was called to P.E. by my teacher it was a swimming lesson in the lower gym (this room has no pool) however just below the liquid surface of the pool it was otherwise entirely frozen. We decided as a class to place some inflatable obstacle courses in a grid pattern but they were all built like they were designed on isometric paper. To make the course more difficult, as most students were able to easily complete the course the teacher started shooting the students with a NERF gun in an effort to make more students fail.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/gay-accents/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/gay-accents/I was with one of my friends and his dad in Huddersfield when we were talking about Pokémon game remasters and modding them to make them a single player experience. The father piped up that Pokémon was ‘gay’ but said this in a strange accent so we made fun of him for it. We walked back to another friends house laughing about how his dad had pronounced gay. Outside this house was a small pile of old and dirty Samsung DS-5000 series phones that I chuckled at before ignoring them.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/handbags-and-ants/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/handbags-and-ants/I was driving to work with my mothers handbag sat on the passenger seat with the windows open. The handbag flies out through the window as if picked up by a gust of wind. I pull over and try to reach the bag but by the time I get there it’s already been run over by a number of vehicles, has been dragged down the road and is overall quite damaged.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/hard-seltzer/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/hard-seltzer/Servings: 1 Carbs: Approx 1g per serving Preparation Time: 1 minute Serving Size: 500ml ABV: 4% Ingredients 400ml sparkling water 50ml sugar-free cordial 50ml vodka Process Combine in a glass, you’re done. Source: Selfhttps://minskio.co.uk/hardware/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/hardware/What powers the site and its associated clients Desktop Name: Titan CPU: Intel Core i5 7600 @ 3.50 Ghz CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i RAM: 2x Crucial 8GB DDR4 @ 2400 MHz Motherboard: ASRock Z270M-ITX/ac Storage: 2TB WDS200T2B0B SSD GPU: Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB PSU: Corsair SF450 450W Modular 80+ Gold PSU Case: DAN Case A4-SFX v2 Monitors: 2x Iiyama ProLite E2710HDS OS: Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC Keyboard: Rosewill-RK-9000V2 Cherry MX Brown Mouse: Zowie S2 Headset: SteelSeries Arctis 3 Scanner: Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 UserBenchmark: Results Server Name: Artemis CPU: 4x Ampere Altra A1 cores RAM: 24GB Storage: 200GB SSD OS: NixOS Provider: Oracle NAS Name: Ilias Hardware: Dell OptiPlex 3060 CPU: Intel Core i3-8100 RAM: 8GB Storage: 8TB HDD OS: NixOS Laptop Name: Minerva Model: Lenovo Thinkpad x230t CPU: Intel i5-3320M RAM: 2x 8GB Storage: 120GB SSD OS: NixOS HTPC Name: Arcadia Hardware: Intel NUC NUC5i3RYH CPU: Intel i3-5010U Storage: 120GB SSD OS: NixOS Television: Sony 42"https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/henchmen-clones/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/henchmen-clones/Me and two other guys I didn’t know were in a Swedish facility that looked like a GoldenEye level. There were guard clones attacking us at various stages of completion wearing face covering masks that increased their powers and abilities when worn. We raced past low level clone guards in an attempt to either escape, or destroy the ‘master clone’ that would disable all the remaining clones.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hiding-things-at-work/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hiding-things-at-work/I was at work diagnosing issues with SIP trunks at our old premises. I purposely hid example paper call logs in roof spaces behind light fittings and smoke alarms. We narrowed it down to an awkward setup with call groups.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hotel-sunset/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/hotel-sunset/I was in a hotel room in the Burj Khalifa. The lifts weren’t working so I was racing to the top to try to see the green flash at sunset, I got there in time and saw it. A girl stood next to me also watching and asked me to follow her through a locker mounted to the wall which had a false back and opened with a key. Connected to the locker was a service shaft that connected to a large hidden room.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/illegal-fishermen/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/illegal-fishermen/I was in a team who would look for illegal fishing nets and lines on yachts moored in marinas, there was a bit of a glam 80’s vibe going on. The people aboard the boats would try to bribe us to stop confiscating their illegally caught fish. One fishing yacht we found used neon green fishing line and large circular nets on black handles which were ornately decorated with pieces of silver.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/imposter-sister/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/imposter-sister/Me, my sister, mother and father were going on holiday to America where we’d be staying in a large futuristic hotel. We had a lot of individual activities planned and soon split up to do this. On meeting back up in the evening, my sister was a completely different person. I took my parents to one side to ask them about this but they didn’t seem to notice, or care. I was wary, but decided to go along as usual.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/keto-scotch-eggs/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/keto-scotch-eggs/Servings: 5 Carbs: 2 per serving Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 45 minutes total Ingredients 6x medium eggs 500g minced pork 100g milled linseed Garlic powder Ground sage Salt and pepper Process Soft boil 5 of the 6 eggs In a bowl, mix the remaining egg, mince and seasonings thoroughly Peel your boiled eggs and wrap each of them in 1/5 of the mince mixture Roll each ball in the linseed until covered Cook at 180°C for 25-30 minutes Source: Keto Fitness Clubhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/knife-fight/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/knife-fight/We had some new starters ar work, everything was set up for them ready to start working but they were having technical issues in the ‘IT Suite’ where my bosses offices were located. I was dealing with the issues one by one when I remembered I’d left 3 Stanley Knife blades in the room. A quiet girl had one in her hands and wouldn’t return it to me. We eventually started wrestling as I tried to get the blade but I sliced up my hands, legs and stomach in the process.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/leaking-box/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/leaking-box/I was walking through an industrial estate on a terraformed alien planet with active volcanoes, ash and smog everywhere. I was carrying a heavy metal box that had battery terminals on it and was constantly leaking water behind me as I progressed. As I walked past forklift trucks and factories using the volcanic power I went over a hill and saw in the distance that I’d walked about 15 kilometres with the battery.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/letters-to-you/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/letters-to-you/It was dark and I was walking home alone over small broken shards of stone near a flood management setup. I heard voices behind me and looked back to see a group of people about 150 metres away. I looked down at the floor and saw clothes that I owned and brown paper letters addressed to me. Knowing this was a dream I tried to become lucid but instead woke myself up.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/lidl-warehouse-training/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/lidl-warehouse-training/I had opted for a job at Lidl, but had to attend a training seminar in a huge warehouse before I could start. We weren’t given any kind of instruction for how to get in, which we assumed was part of the test before the training started. After walking around various places and being told about how things worked we were given a task to photoshop the teachers face out of a classical painting.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/linseed-crisps/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/linseed-crisps/Servings: Varies Carbs: Varies Prep Time: 10 minutes + overnight wait Cooking Time: 45 minutes Ingredients Linseed Seasonings (garlic, basil, oregano, pepper, salt) Process Mix together 2:1 flaxseed to water and stir Leave in a fridge overnight to absorb water Place linseed between 2 sheets parchment paper and roll out until 1 layer thick Remove the top layer, and score the linseed sheet with a knife to make breaking easier Cook at 140°C for 45 minutes with the top parchment sheet on Once cooked, remove from oven and allow to cool.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/locking-down-the-house/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/locking-down-the-house/Every year there’s a mandatory fun-run type marathon event. After completing the run you get a rest of the day off to do as you please. I had completed the run and was on my way home on a moped when I saw two people I knew from my high school being kicked out of a taxi on the way back. I invited them around to my house as we were nearby which they agreed to and offered to call them another taxi which they refused and then started wandering around outside the house.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/longhorn-patching/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/longhorn-patching/During and around college I closely followed the development of what would eventually become Windows Vista, codenamed Longhorn. In a suspiciously similar vein to my earlier WPA Patching exploits I also created patches for every single publicly (available at the time I was active in the community) released build of Longhorn from the early 3000 series, through 4000 and eventually culminating in 5048.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/martian-tropes/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/martian-tropes/Me and my girlfriend were on a dusty red planet like mars, waiting for a space ship to pick us up, while a traditional train track ran around the rim of the crater we were in. We were joking about how many awful horror tropes were in play, as a scout ship came down near a metal tower we said that an alien would board the ship and it did, so we waved it off and said see you later.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/marzipan-balls/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/marzipan-balls/Servings: 8 Carbs: Approx 3g per serving Total Time: 45 minutes Ingredients 100g almond flour 60g powdered erythritol 1 medium egg 50g 85%+ dark chocolate Process Mix almond flour and erythritol in a bowl, add egg and mix again Split mixtures into 8 and roll into balls, freeze for 30 minutes Melt chocolate in a double boiler and roll frozen balls until covered Cool and serve Source: Low Carbhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/minecraft-in-space/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/minecraft-in-space/I was on a space station similar to Silicon Valley where there were separate branching pods all with different biomes connected via glass tubes. Each glass encased biome was strangely low resolution and had a low-poly aesthetic to it. Inside one of the biomes there was a small cabin, and inside this cabin there was an old computer on a wooden desk with a CRT display showing the time as a bouncing screensaver.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/moonshining/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/moonshining/Set during the prohibition era, there was a fabled car that could reach the lofty heights of 54 mph that had been built specifically to outrun the police. I was working with the police to stop this car and we’d set up a roadblock with large bulldozers but the driver decided to drive into them at full speed destroying the car, along with any evidence. When the police finally tracked down the builders of this car, it was the woman from Fargo who very cooly played it off that the accident was caused by the accelerator being stuck and the car was otherwise perfectly normal.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/murderball-landlord/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/murderball-landlord/Me and my girlfriend were renting a warehouse for whatever reason when we were approached by another person to sub-let this for a violent version of polo called murder-ball or something similar where one end of your club hits the ball and the other ned has a hammer/tazer type contraption. During the first match at our warehouse a couple of people died and my girlfriend refused to tidy up the corpses when asked to.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/mystery-box/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/mystery-box/One of my friends had presented me with a strange electro-mechanical box with many buttons and dials on it to learn about how it worked. One piece of interest was a blue crystal protruding from it. You pressed the main button and after about ten seconds had passed this blue crystal would light up. My friends house was locked and hard to enter via the surrounding fences and gates. My friend was in the process of firing a member of staff at the house however he was kept on board tue to making funny noises while he snored.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/network-traffic/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/network-traffic/Again, while at college we had managed to get a copy of Halo 1 onto the network and were playing multiplayer Blood Gulch with reckless abandon. The administrator of the college stormed into the classroom and told us that she could see we were all playing games and we should knock it off. We all agreed to this before just starting up the next game immediately after the door was closed.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/new-resident/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/new-resident/We were driving past a house that a friend of mine used to live in but in retrospect I didn’t recognise. I was driving two women when I decided to take a shortcut that I thought I knew before becoming stuck in the garden. We met the houses new owner and they helped us carry the car back to the main road. We decided to go back one day in the future and as I parked up alone this time to meet my friend and the houses new owner I heard a man crying in an adjacent field.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/new-york-style-cheesecake/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/new-york-style-cheesecake/Servings: 8 Carbs: Approx 6g per serving Prep Time: 25 minutes Cooking Time: 1 hour Base Ingredients 100g Almond flour 50g Melted butter 40g Erythritol 1tsp Cinammon Cheesecake Ingredients 600g Cream cheese 150g Erythritol 100ml Sour cream 2 Medium eggs 2tsp Vanilla extract Process Mix together all base ingredients in a bowl Add base mix to your cake tin, and press evenly into the base with a spoon Place base in a refrigerator for 20m until firm While base cools, mix cream cheese, sour cream, and erythritol in a double boiler until mixed Take off the heat, add in vanilla and eggs, mix again then pour onto the top of the base Bake at 150°C for 1 hour Allow to cool in the oven with door open for an additional hour, then refridgerate overnight Source: Jennifer Banzhttps://minskio.co.uk/recipes/nuts-and-chocolate-fat-bombs/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/nuts-and-chocolate-fat-bombs/Servings: 20 Carbs: Approx 1.5g per serving Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 10 minutes Ingredients 150g sugar free chocolate 130g coconut oil 50g powdered erythritol 170g almond butter 50g peanuts 1/2 tsp salt Process Add all ingredients to a double boiler and heat while mixing. Once mixed, pour into a cake tin and wait until room temperature Finish cooling in a fridge, then cut into pieces. Source: Selfhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/office-forklift/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/office-forklift/I was in an office, similar in layout and style to KF-Offices. Downstairs there were rows of plasterboards with a forklift truck moving them around. As I entered this room, the forklift truck collided with the side of knocked itself and the row of plasterboards over. After checking everyone was alright I walked upstairs. In one room I entered I saw my aunt and uncle sleeping so knew the room I was staying in was further down the corridor.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/peanut-butter-fudge/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/peanut-butter-fudge/Servings: 18 Carbs: Approx 1g per serving Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes Ingredients 200g Smooth eanut butter 100g Butter 75g Erythritol powder Process Add peanut butter and butter to a saucepan and melt together over low heat Once smooth, add sweetener, mix and pour into parchment lined cake tin Allow to cool on counter, then refrigerate for 2 hours in fridge before cutting into 3x6 squares Source: fen1xbb @ Reddithttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/pedestrian-escort/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/pedestrian-escort/I was the passenger in a car being driven during a ‘mid-night out’ type of scene and we’d already seen a couple of car crashes caused by people driving at excess speed. While driving back we saw a stumbling guy so decided to try to push him over but couldn’t manage it. I decided to walk with the guy as he looked like a friend I knew from High School but wasn’t.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/pigeon-people/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/pigeon-people/Had a dream about likening pigeons to shadow people, through the medium of a flash animation where after every generation the pigeons improved over a booming bass line of “We have bones, we have brawn”.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/plantation-sultanas/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/plantation-sultanas/All our immediate family were at my grandfathers house which was a multi-floored ‘Louisiana Plantation Owner’ style type of deal. Everyone was laughing and joking at my expense detailing my joke phone, and that I’d brought bags of golden sultanas as a gift to my grandfather. To escape this, I’d brought a collection of Philip K Dick short stories to read upstairs away from everyone else. A sandwich delivery boy came to the house and rang the doorbell and I had to let him in.https://minskio.co.uk/plants/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/plants/ Hebe - Green Globe Hebe - Hey Beauty Hebe - Margret Lace Aloe Aristaloe aristata Mexican Heather Cuphea hyssopifolia Spider Plant Chlorophytum comosum Wandering Jew Tradescantia zebrinahttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/probing-questions/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/probing-questions/I was doing some amateur rocketry with Kari Byron from the Mythbusters when we started to walk off in the direction of a rocket we’d launched. On our way back, we saw my next door neighbour who was asking probing questions about our TV setup. We also ran into an old school friend who for some reason also has an interest in rocketry. Back home, the TV licencing woman barged into a house that was laid out like another school friends and turned on the TV.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/prototype-bike/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/prototype-bike/I was taking place in a treasure hunt television show in the grounds of a stately home and got to ride a prototype bicycle named a ‘Camerie’ that used a single track instead of two separate wheels. It worked amazingly well and I went to show the rest of the treasure hunt team as they were working on the clues themselves. The remaining 2 members of my team were in a large movie set for an old period drama film that had run over budget so the rest of the set had been sold and used for adverts after the filming was completed.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/quad-bike-crash/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/quad-bike-crash/I was walking home through some kind of large city when a guy on a quad bike riding around unsafely comes off the road and falls down where men are working on the road. There are signs about raised iron works surrounding the site. Nobody really seems to notice this so I mention it to a security guard in the building and he and another guard go to check it out.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/rotary-oven/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/rotary-oven/My sister had decided to buy a new car but was nervous as to what to speak to the garage about so went with my father. I went along for the ride but was dropped off at a house in Elland for whatever reason. Inside, I was cooking a large number of £1 coins in a rotary oven while comparing Bateman to Trump. My two cousins came around with a younger sister who I’d never seen before who had the same hair colour as them who had a plastic replica sword from a video game.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/rts-lan-party/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/rts-lan-party/I was at a friend and his girlfriend’s house but it was more of a summer house then their usual apartment. We had a number of computers set up on the top floor and were playing Red Alert 1 but the rules about ocean based combat were entirely different and totally useless. The map was almost entirely water based with a thin layer of rock encircling it which made base building difficult and movement even harder still.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/safety-ducks/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/safety-ducks/I was a local TV news reporter reporting on an effort to save endangered ducks from being caught in rapids, fishing lines and nets. The effort involved training specially selected ducks to wear hi-vis jackets and helmets with flashing lights on their heads to move, but not scare off other ducks. A guy I was interviewing was impressed with the scheme and was repeatedly saying “I bet you’ve never seen ducks like these, eh?https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/scottish-tavern/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/scottish-tavern/I was in a tavern up on a Scottish island overhearing a subtitled conversation in Gaelic between two patrons. One was asking about the others tribe because his accent was unusual but he explained he’d learnt Gaelic online. They mentioned a solstice festival of sorts with a special board game and dancing. A girl from work is with me for whatever reason and loves dancing in the circle with others.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/seagull-sausage-roll/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/seagull-sausage-roll/I was spending a long weekend in Llandudno with my girlfriend, we’d had a few drinks and were walking back to the hotel. Along the front were a number of other hotels and I was looking across them while we were walking and talking. I caught the eye of a guy with his feet up on the open window frame and decided to wave at him, I mentioned this to my girlfriend who wasn’t anywhere near as impressed as I seemed to be.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/shitty-lateness/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/shitty-lateness/While in sixth-form, we had a fearsome science teacher who took no prisoners. One of my friends in this class who was never the most punctual was around 10 minutes late one day for this class and when he bustled through the door this teacher demanded to know why the student was late. Without hesitation, the student simply answered “I stood in some shit, sir”. The class were all pretty taken aback with this frankness and expected the teacher to raise hell but he softened, shrugged and said “That’s fair, take your seat” and nothing more was said on the matterhttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/shooting-rabbits-before-work/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/shooting-rabbits-before-work/I was dropping off a parcel for work so was staying at home until a little later in the morning until the post office opened up. My father had already tried shooting a rabbit earlier and missed, I saw the same black and white rabbit outside my window and took a shot at it using the air rifle, hitting it but not killing it. I look up after it had run off and saw that it was ten past ten and I was significantly later for work.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/silent-room/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/silent-room/On my first day of college, I’d arrived at the building by bus not knowing a single other person there. We were all shuttled to the upstairs break room where we all just sat in silence for a solid 10 minutes before somebody recognised another student from a previous school and with that the silence was broken and everybody began chatting amongst themselves.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/sleepy-snooker/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/sleepy-snooker/I was sat on a bar stool at my local pub, feeling very tired. I was so tired my eyelids felt as though they were sticking together making sight almost impossible. Somebody across the bar was throwing pool balls at my feet that dropped down from the bar stool but I couldn’t do anything as my eyelids were stuck together.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/slipknot-show/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/slipknot-show/I was on my way to see Slipknot performing live with a couple of my friends . We queued up outside with our tickets for a long time before finally being let inside. The main hall was styled like a movie theatre from the 50’s with heavy curtains covering the stage and big, red reclining chairs in rows to sit in. The band came on and performed for a while before having an intermission, during this we went outside for food and drinks.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/smash-for-breakfast/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/smash-for-breakfast/Me and a group of highschool friend were playing Smash Brothers at my grandparents house, one of the group had taken the car out to go shopping for breakfast cereal at the packet we’d bought was full of lavender leaves. Everyone was commenting on how well I was going as I’d been practicing earlier against the AI. The final part of the stage came about and you had to dunk your competitors pokemon in front of a big crab themed boss.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/sofa-shopping/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/sofa-shopping/Two of my cousins came around to my hosue to go winter shopping, a school friend of mine also tagged along. While in a coffee shop my school friend ordered a coffee with a flake in the top, and as he was about to pick it off the counter I stole the flake, only afterwards seeing that it had been a dick move. The waitress had a go at me before she and my friend exchanged knowing glances and went upstairs in the coffee shop store room to have sex.https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/spaghetti-carbonara/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/recipes/spaghetti-carbonara/Servings: 1 Carbs: Approx 5g per serving Cooking Time: 15 minutes Ingredients 50g soybean spaghetti 100g bacon lardons 30g grated grana padano cheese 1x medium egg garlic granules black pepper Process Add water to a saucepan and start heating In a cold frying pan, add lardons, black pepper and garlic granules and fry until bacon is crispy Once they become crispy, remove from the heat In a mixing bowl, add your egg, 90% of the gran padano cheese and black pepper.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/spanish-stylus/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/spanish-stylus/I was in high school doing my GCSE course in Spanish but nobody was taking it seriously and different people were calling out correct answers at the same time. To combat this we started to use these styluses that could somehow know when you were cheating but you had to physically tap things to get the words to appear. All the questions were food centric, for example, one question was about a chicken and mushroom dish so I had a ready meal plate on my small desk fishing around with the stylus for mushroomshttps://minskio.co.uk/dreams/speedy-swimming/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/speedy-swimming/I was dreaming about swimming at high school with it’s various cliques. I wasn’t immediately accepted into any group but still competed and won a 25 metre front crawl race by a huge margin, even struggling to slow down as the end approached. After getting to the other side, I ran out of the gym and jogged barefoot outside where my mother was talking a native American guy I knew.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/spinning-platform/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/spinning-platform/I’m on a rocky platform around the size of a double bed hovering in mid-air and there’s another similar platform that I need to get to. Around me there’s a constant ambient droning noise and in the sky the clouds are all yellow. The platform I’m stood on starts to spin, and I’m struggling to hold on. I’m aware that this is a dream at this point so concentrate on waking up as I’m starting to feel nauseous.https://minskio.co.uk/status/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/status/Generated on 2026-04-16 at 13:00 Uptime: 255 Days CPU Load: 0.00 0.03 0.04 Users: 1 RAM Usage: 8.35% Root Storage: 55% Tank Storage: 94% Torrent Ratio: 4.440 NAS Storage: 5.157 TiB Containers: 16/16 Packages: 672 (nix-system), 259 (nix-user) Monthly Data: 404.76 GiB Hardware specifications themselves are covered on the hardware page.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/stolen-lunch/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/stolen-lunch/I was at work, walking towards the fridge to get some wraps that I plan to eat for my lunch however they’re not in the fridge when I get there. Thinking somebody from my office was playing a trick on me I asked them, but nobody was aware of where they’d gone. I entered another office on my floor and somebody named Kim had two pieces of scrunched up cling film on her desk.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/sunbathing-in-a-hurricane/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/sunbathing-in-a-hurricane/I was laid down in the back garden in the bright sun, enjoying the peacefulness of the day. The sky then rapidly started clouding over and the wind began to whip up and howl. I was being physically pushed by this strong gale, in a circular motion with a 20 meter diameter. I collided with the hedge surrounding the gargen, then with the garage as I continued being buffeted and dragged around by the wind.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/tesco-drifting/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/tesco-drifting/I was on my own in a Tesco’s car park driving an old silver BMW. There were a few chavs lingering around in other cars chatting and so on so I drifted my car near them. They all jumped in their cars and we drove around the car park doing synchronised drifts, tyres squeeling and doughnuts. Afterwards we were talking and there was one guy who was really proud of his kit car, the building process involved assembling the shell of the car which was made out of fabric and resembled a tent including poles.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/the-interview/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/the-interview/As part of the college admissions process, we had a mock interview where I attended dressed in a suit and followed through like a legitimate job interview. At one point of this, the interviewer asked me a couple of sample IT centric questions from a book he had. At no point did he indicate whether or not I’d answered them correctly so at the end of the interview I asked him if I’d got the questions correct.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/tour-bus/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/tour-bus/A group of about 20 of us from high school were driving around London in a large VW van that had been used by three of the group of friends as a tour bus for their band. As we drove, instruments and equipment were being set up and tuned and there were speakers and amps in the van. We were staying at a hotel in a cul-de-sac and the band were going to play there.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/train-station-zombie-brawl/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/train-station-zombie-brawl/A group of us have set off an alarm in a corner shop as we’re attempting to leave it after grabbing some supplies. The family that owns the corner shop are all zombies and are milling around outside the door waiting for us to make a move. We flee the shop and try to escape to the local train station where I find out that a few people I knew in high school were intentionally spreading a zombie like virus around by giving out tainted ‘vaccinated blood’ to people.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/traitorous-card-game/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/traitorous-card-game/We were playing a game as a group of around five people where you had to draw a card then act on what was written on the card. The game quicky devolved into people violently attacking each other indiscriminately with one person who I did not know called Emma stabbing four screwdrivers into another girls’ abdomen. After a large argument everyone moved their beds and belongings to form defensive cliques. I was in the same room as Emma but on a different side but not by choice.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/treehouse-acid/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/treehouse-acid/I was at a friends house with his brother and brothers girlfriend where we’d decided to take a low dose of LSD. The house was a large multi-floored tree house built into an enormous tree. The trip had barely started when my friend started to act irratically, climbing down from the treehouse to get a drink from a nearby building but halfway down jumped, pulling off a combat roll at the bottom.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/turn-based-defcon/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/turn-based-defcon/Me and some of my friends were playing Defcon. One of my friends had allied with me as Eurasia and the other was playing as North America. The game played differently from the actual game where in one move you had to attack, the other player defend, then the next turn you must successfully defend. We sent over a single rocket to New York city and as it approached the target it split like a MIRV hitting many targets all along the east coast.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/typical-white-van-man/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/typical-white-van-man/I was at home and heard a commotion outside in the back garden and saw a white transit van being forced to drive through the bordering stone wall being chased by police who were yelling at the driver to stop. They eventually made it through the wall and continued driving in a diagonal line through the garden until they reached the hedge which my car was parked behind. They just continued driving, ramming my car out of the way.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/upstream-pool/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/upstream-pool/I was at a friends house for a party and was looking for a bathroom. Of the three I knew existed 2 were blocked by large dogs sitting in front of the doors. The remaining one had stairs going down to it and was quite open plan. There was a huge green tile pool in this room with huge flowing waterfalls at both ends. People were queuing for the bathroom just sat down in the water while they waited.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/vended-cups/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/vended-cups/In the break room at college we had a water cooler and a hot drinks vending machine, as the water cooler was free we inevitably used up all the disposable cups while the vending machine was left relatively untouched. We discovered one morning you could reach up into the vending machine and pull out the cups that the machine dispensed, then use those for water. We had a hapless and somewhat autistic student in this college who one morning decided to try and vend a hot chocolate.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/vr-pods/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/vr-pods/Me and my friend were in the Packhorse centre in Huddersfield near some brand new fully enclosed arcade pod type devices. One of the pods opened up, hissing and releasing air when out steps another one of my friends dads . As he emerged from the pod, a little tipsily he started threatening my friend, poking him in the chest and warning him to stay away from the pods before trying to return to the one he just left which now has a girl in it who begins stoking his chest as he sits back down in the chair.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/war-economy/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/war-economy/A long and stranger than usual overarching dream involving far-right politics, air rifles, murder, backstabbing, VR games and capitalists. We’d owned a company that was doing very well but a government imposed war economy brought the whole company to it’s knees. At the end of the dream we all agreed to go back to our roots in an effort to save the company. Meanwhile I was at a large right wing sympathisers house who had amassed a large collection of ‘UK Legal’ weaons like air rifles and blades of all sorts.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/wasp-sting/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/wasp-sting/While at nursery, I remember playing out in the sun one day during a break. I was on a blue plastic tractor and an insect landed on the tractors’ bonnet. Unbeknownst to me this insect was a wasp. I grabbed at the wasp managing to cup it in my hand when it inevitably stung me. I remember the pain being unlike anything I’d ever experienced at that point and cried for a long time.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/woodland-creatures/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/woodland-creatures/I was riding my bike through a park at night when I accidentally ran over a small squirrel like animal. A few walkers around me ran over to have a look at I assured them I’d get the animal some help. Down a flight of stair there were 3 police officers and a WPC came up to examine the animal. She looked in shock and told everyone around to lie as still as possible as big badger like animals were swarming around us, they were apparently very dangrous but would completely ignore you if you played dead.https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/work-party/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/dreams/work-party/I was at work during the Christmas break with all the members of staff dealing with a fault for a customer, but our offices were on a coastline instead of their usual premises. During the call, we had our post delivered and a member of staff was going through it when everyone at once started talking about how I’d messed up. Apparently I’d booked a disco and a party called ‘The Imagination Makers’ and they were charging us £800 for a party that nobody had attended that I’d set up but never fully confirmed.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/wpa-patching/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/wpa-patching/While at college, as we were studying for an IT course we ended up running a lot of virtual machines for Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP Pro clients. One of the unforseen side effects of this however was that there was a 30 day countdown after install that couldn’t really be avoided. One by one, virtual machines would end up being un-bootable due to Windows Product Activation. Being the spritely scallywag that I was, I knew of an activation patcher and made winlogon.https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/yer-prawns/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://minskio.co.uk/memoirs/yer-prawns/When I was at college, we usually walked to a nearby cheap and cheerful sandwich shop for lunch. For the past few days I’d ordered prawn salad sandwiches. The two women that worked at the shop had to hurridly defrost the prawns once the order was placed, so on the next day day when I went, one of the women rushed out, overjoyed to see the group of us, while nearly dancing exclaiming “I’ve got y’er prawns!