Grey Lumpy Dinosaur

Using Snap packages to run services will bite you, and it might be my fault

I’ve been spending an increasing amount of my leisure time editing videos in Davinici Resolve.

My DJI Mini 4 Pro takes wonderful photographs and video.

There has been a lot of talk about enshittification of software and services recently.

Recently, YouTube has been throwing me a lot of hiking and bikepacking videos.

A fascinating, inspiring, frustrating and entertaining exploration of the innards of the new Spectrum Next computer

I’ve been a happy Project Bluefin user for several weeks.

I’m getting grumpier as I get older, so I wanted to post a very positive computing experience today.

This site is created using HUGO and it is driving me up the wall.

I’ve been struggling to understand why Canonical would withhold security fixes on a Long Term Support release

I found a vulnerability in Canonical’s Snap package manager which can be exploited to escape the sandbox and run arbitrary code as the user.

I wanted to watch Zattoo on my Xbox, but The Man had other ideas.

I recently bought my second Firebat T8 Plus Mini PC from AliExpress.

A wee bit of fun for Easter Monday - find the Easter Egg!

I have to be honest, I’m not fond of social media.

This is McPhail’s current personal blog site.