Exactly one month ago, on the 18th October 2023, I came to the realisation that I am transgender. Two weeks later I had an appointment with an endocrinologist. And one week after that a prescription for estradiol valerate 6 mg … Continue reading
Author: Shane McRetro
Dell P190Sb LCD Monitor – The Heist
7th October 2023. Picture the date, picture the time. Walking along a major arterial road. Out of the corner of my eye, a monitor. E-waste? Maybe. Dumped? Definitely.
10th October 2023. It’s still there. There’s a nagging inside me that … Continue reading
WD Blue SA510 1TB WDS100T3B0B Failure… Again
Oh my sweet WD Blue SA510 M.2 SATA 2280 blade drives. You are such trash. I had two of these for GeoCities, one master and one backup. However, since I took GeoCities offline I thought I’d erase and sell … Continue reading
Forced Veganism Rethink
For the past three years I’ve been vegan. A junk food vegan. Processed foods have always been my friend. They’re cheap, full of energy and bad for you? Meatloaf had it right when he said two out of three ain’t … Continue reading
OpenRA – Command & Conquer – Red Alert
Silos needed. I used to love Command & Conquer as a teenager. My Athlon 500 MHz sure did clock a few hours as did Andrew’s PC. While his PC wasn’t as fast as mine, it was my gateway to getting … Continue reading
52nd and Final Blood Donation
A few months ago I decided I was finished with donating blood. A few factors decided into why I would no longer donate.
1. … Continue reading
HPE MicroServer with TrueNAS Scale – Clunking Hard Drives
I have been listening to my three or four drives go clunk, clunk, clunk for the best part of a … Continue reading
Shane’s Brains! MRI Scan – October 2023
The latest update in a series of updates it seems! Recently I had the fun of being injected with a chelated form … Continue reading
GeoCities Archive Retired, Dockerisation Abandoned
There’s something about waking up at 3am every morning that just gives you that extra bit of time to blog. Today we’re touching on what happened to my GeoCities Archive. A while back I had an idea to dockerise … Continue reading
The Voice Referendum
What the actual fuck Australia? When it comes to politics I am very left leaning and the echo chambers I frequent tend to be left aligned. Oh, aaaaaand I might not have voted. But what the hell are we doing … Continue reading
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