My mother told me that my daughter is having difficulty with her homework and tutoring as she has an addiction to the iPad and in particular #Roblox.

After some discussion, I have put some restrictions on the XBOX to prevent both the girls from playing anything on it from 3pm to 6pm after school if I am not at home, as it seems that when both my wife and I are at work, the kids will rush to get to Grandmas' iPAD and run upstairs to the XBOX to play Roblox together.

You guys might notice me replying with a different fediverse account @samuel@samuellison.com - I am slowly using that account to reply from using Micro.Blog as it syndicates better with my website at www.samuellison.com and shows replies on my own #indieweb website. My Mastodon Instance will probably become where I #POSSE to for backups, or I may end up not requiring it down the track at all.

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I can’t agree more. It’s writers like these, as well as @manton and so forth that got me re-focused on the indieweb and creating my own home again on the internet. I will admit, loading up my website and reading my blog and “microblog” posts and its replies coming in from people reading from the website or other platforms thanks to syndication and webmentions, just feels so nice and cozy.

Finally logged into #OpenSimulator and done some #VibeCoding on my #SurvivorCore RPG game I’ve been working on and uploaded the changes to #GitHub. Check it out at github.com/TemujinCa… - doesn’t do much besides track player stats and added consumable items (#AI did!)

Planning to go to #LakesEntrance with the family for the #AnzacDay long weekend. Anyone been there and can recommend fun activities to do?

Started the day off with a coffee and experienced a couple power surges today in the home office. Glad I have a #UPS. But I also purchased a second one for my #NAS as I really don’t want to start getting errors on the hard drives when they are doing their thing!

DId you know #Kagi has an onion service? kagi2pv5bdcxxqla5itjzje2cgdccuwept5ub6patvmvn3qgmgjd6vid.onion Confirm the address by using Tor browser to visit kagi.com and it’ll give you its onion address automatically too. @kagi.com

Back from #PhillipIsland - what a great trip that was with the family. I have a few nice photos (from my phone) to share with you all. Will do so soon!

Live #crickets for the #gecko I got my daughter. Dozens of them got out of the terrarium somehow through some gap and crawling around the house. Family had a joy trying to get them all. I get home from work and the first thing I see is a little cricket on the floor escaping haha - little buggers!

I must be switched off on days off work, as today I’m more productive. Took girls to school, still have 4hrs before work for afternoon shift. But I’ve done dishes and a load of washing. Have time for another load, 30mins of #exercise, 30mins of #reading and throw in 30mins of #meditation.

I agree and we will all be moving over to #Kagi!

I feel like I have been lazy and procrastinated a lot, but in reality I didn’t. I spent the day getting my #AudioEquipment working to be able to live stream again for #SLColonies.

I’m currently working on writing an article about my recent #hike in #LerderdergGorge to outline the experience in more detail and what was going through my mind in certain parts of the walk makertube.net/w/qmE2utu…

Weather is looking good tomorrow. I might do a quick check of a local #hiking trail to check out if the fruiting bodies of #mushrooms have started sprouting so that I can get some photos!

Waiting on a delivery of some new studio monitor speakers for my setup. Same brand, but with balanced inputs as my new #RodecasterDuo has some balanced outputs (TRS) and I am getting sick of the hissing sound from trying to go from balance to unbalanced #audio!

I’ve been working on #Obsidian so that I link all of my journal together somehow and not just through tags, but also through back-links and such, to create larger looking nodes? Centres of information? It’s pretty interesting how it works.

Honest Government Ad about AI.

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My #hiking video is in the process of transcoding on #MakerTube, which is a #PeerTube instance I use for hosting my video content.

From quick watching currently during the transcoding process, I hear no audio. I hope that this is just during transcoding, as it’s a long upload and transcoding process just to have a video with no audio.

My #HikingVideo is in the middle of transcoding. It’s 64gig and 3.5 hours long. Hopefully the #PeerTube instance I am on, #MakerTube, can handle it. I decided to go to 1080p and not 4k, as not many people have 4k screens to make full use of those resources.

I’ve finally finished #editing and #encoding my #hiking video from last week. 3.5 hours long and will capture me recording #bird sounds and what not.

I’ll share it all with you as soon as it’s done uploading!