Journaling June - Day 19-21
21^st June 2026

Journaling June Day 19-21
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My brother paid me a visit at short notice and coupled with the grey rainy weather that meant I finally had to resort to paying for electricity from the grid, rather than getting it from my solar panels and Power Oak. Oh well.

There are some things I've been getting done, while others not, it has to be said.

I've been faffing about with the iMac for a few days. The main issue was getting the fan associated with the non-existent hard drive to stop spinning at full tilt, which I have now managed to achieve and I've been typing up a project log for all of this. Now I'm just dragging stuff over from my current main computer, which is involving some procrastination and dilly-dallying. Like, Thunderbird Mail stuff, and Firefox data, only to then keep using my old main computer so the data I was in the middle of preparing to drag over is now out of date... gaaa.

The iMac does run quite warm though. Also, at 27" inches it's massive. I mean it looked big enough sat on my lounge floor but when I carried it upstairs and sat it on my desk in front of the two other screens there... it dwarfs them! I might have to chop a few inches off the legs of my desk if it causes me neck ache... Chopping legs off to cure neck ache...

One thing I had to accept was not going to work when I assumed it would be feasible in one version or another was Davinci Resolve. I've never managed to get that to work with Linux so I don't know why I had such high hopes. I have now installed Kdenlive instead though so I am hopeful I can use that instead with relative ease. At least that installed easily.

In addition to these things I did manage to both go for a run these past couple of days, and ride my bike. The weather for the next few days look to be good so I hope to keep up with this.