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Weight for it... Ha!

Nix McRetro // 10th June 2016 // News

Not much happening here, but I did manage to find a much better looking graph on the Withings HealthMate website. Just figured you should enjoy it. The red line shows where I am currently. I’m hoping the trend (solid blue line) keeps dropping as time goes on. At this rate,... Continue reading

LimeSurvey and Rebuilding

Nix McRetro // 31st May 2016 // News

Where on earth have I been? It’s like I fell down the rabbit hole with Alice. Wait, not that Alice. Do not click that link. Anyway, I’ve been working on getting back into shape for winter. After all, that’s when I leave the house the most. Otherwise the sun cooks... Continue reading

Fibre to the Node

Nix McRetro // 21st May 2016 // News

Some friends recently had their NBN Fibre to the Node connection installed, and compared with the old connections I’d been dealing with, it felt extremely fast. This website was even being hosted there for a while, which might explain some of the downtime. ;) Technically, FTTN runs fibre to a... Continue reading

Generating Vanity Onion Addresses with Shallot

Nix McRetro // 14th May 2016 // Guides, Hacks, Raspberry Pi

Generating Vanity Onion Addresses with Shallot

Back in 2016 I used Shallot 0.0.3-alpha to generate a vanity version 2 onion address for McRetro. My old address was mcretro35qepy5cy.onion. This is now historical documentation: Shallot generates the old 16-character v2 onion addresses, and Tor removed support for those services in 2021. Modern version 3 onion addresses are... Continue reading

eMachines E732 Laptop Disassembly

Nix McRetro // 23rd April 2016 // Guides, Repairs, YouTube

As I was pulling apart an eMachines E732 for a friend, I realised I should make a video for anybody else unfortunate enough to be doing the same thing. These machines are reasonably straightforward to disassemble, with accessible RAM, hard drive and wireless card. I originally said the CPU might... Continue reading