All of this unboxing is seriously hampering this week's ALChoon!

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What should've been posted yesterday is still only about 80% done, and I haven't even made a start on the video for it, yet, which I think needs animated in a half-assed way, so that'll probably take most of today.

I really should learn to make more tunes about static inanimate objects...

As far as a game for this week goes, I asked Bing to draw a penguin spritesheet a few days ago, and it did a rather fine job, so I might end up using that to form some sort of game, though I'm not 100% sure what it might be, just yet.

The unboxing continues, although yesterday was mostly spent shuffling bits and pieces around. The NAS is now sat under the desk, alongside the secondary router. I can hook them up to access the NAS, but it can't connect to the outside world without a giant ethernet connection to the main router.

My choices here seem to be either..
Option 1. Get a new router/repeater that can access the wifi network, then feed that to the NAS.
Though this seems like the logical choice, it will also means that both a router and NAS would be permanently plugged in and working away, 24/7.
To be honest, I'm trying to minimise the number of things I have permanently plugged in, here, so option one actually feels like kind of a bad idea..
It's also a really noisy bugger when you add in the echoing that the bungalow's bedroom has! And there's no longer a spare bedroom we can dump it in, either!!

Option 2. Buy a nice External SSD that can sit on my desk, be occasionally plugged in when needed, and simply use it for backups and the like.
This is now feeling like the better option, though I will miss being able to randomly stream my Red Dwarf and Stargate collection, willy nilly.
And if I still want access to all of those, it's going to have to be a hefty SSD..
.. And those aren't exactly cheap.

Hmmm..

Which to go for?
I'm really not sure.

Thoughts are welcome.


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