2021

I decided to move yet another website from WordPress to Hugo. This time the website has much more traffic than any other “of mines” (the ones that I am managing).

The main reason was speed (but also recent discussion about the environment and impact of technologies on it).

Continuing my previous post “Windows 11 on Unsupported Hardware - Day by Day it’s time for further considerations.

Overall, Windows 11 is not bad. Everything is going in the right direction, but it’s not yet time for a mass switch, and here’s why.

It’s been a while since the official release of Windows 11, and it’s time to get to know it better.

Although I’ve been using Windows 11 for some time now on a virtual machine on macOS, it’s not the same, because I don’t work with it every day.

To see how everything works, I decided to update my “unsupported” computer at work, according to Microsoft, to see if it’s safe to migrate others to the new system.

Microsoft made Windows 11 available to all users worldwide on October 4, 2021. Not everyone was able to try it, especially those with older machines that do not meet requirements such as having a TPM 2.0 chip.

Well, you can install Windows 11 from scratch using an ISO image, but what about updates where we don’t want to lose our settings, programs, and games?

As announced, on October 5, 2021 (to be more precise, at the end of October 4), Microsoft officially presented the final version of Windows 11.

Just a thought…

Politics blaming each other’s, but right now trying to blame European people, that they don’t want to come and help Britain in need.

Everybody forgets what was shown last year. Thousands of HGV trucks have been stuck in companies car parks as they were not needed. The world has been fighting with Covid so no such many goods have been moving around.

When you buy Solid State Drive (SDD) the last thing is to have your drive fail and all files are lost.

With SSD is not as easy to restore anything as it could be with mechanical drives. If they fail it’s rarely anybody will bother to fix it, and most companies will just give you a new drive if it’s still on warranty.

Don’t expect any money back or help in the restoration of your files from faulty drives. None of the warranty covers that from any manufacturers - end of the story.

However, in this rare instance of failure, you expect swift action without any hassle and any extra cost for yourself. You already have a big (unrectified) cost for losing all your data so why to get another one?

And here the problem occurs.

When I moved into a static website made using Hugo I optimised almost everything, including the Google Analytics script. Instead of bulky code loaded from Google, I used Minimal Analytics.

Initially, I put it as always, in the head of my website. Later on, I added it to my 404.html page. I created my own 404 page to override the default Netlify landing page that appears when the visited URL was not found.

The idea was initially to find broken links that visitors are using and to fix them with relevant redirection. However, it didn’t take long until my analytics were spammed by stupid people (and their bots) trying to find a way to break in to my site.

At the beginning of 2014, I purchased my first-ever MacBook Pro. It was a Late-2013 model with Intel Core i5, 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD. A superb machine that worked with me for years (till 2020). It could work with me a bit longer but I feel that I need an upgrade.

I never classed myself as a creator despite I have learned to use new things to create something new.

I am more of a person who can use certain skills and available tools to achieve my goal.