I use Signal as my message app of choice. From the WhatsApp days of past, I kinda liked the weird-and-quirky icon backgrounds they had. No idea what's on them, but it was visually pleasing.

I got bored, so I made some backgrounds, originally with 4 colour ways and 4 opacities of the icons. All in 2160x3840 resolution.

I run 2 copies of AdGuard Home for ad-blocking on my local network. I didn't want to have to duplicate settings across the 2 instances I run.

I discovered adguardhome-sync which allows settings to be synchronised to replica instances. Neat!

But I hit a problem with the instance I had running as a Home Assistant Addon.

Well well well, what do we have here?

I had a Netgear Orbi router and satellites running my home network, but things were becoming unstable. Constant dropouts, a router that thought the WAN port was down and required multiple reboots a day, it just wasn't cutting it anymore.

So, I decided to bite the bullet and go for the UniFi setup I'd been considering for a while.

Here's my initial impressions.

I'm moving from macOS to Windows for my work computer, while I use Windows personally with my gaming systems and have used Windows for years, on an average day I was using macOS more than Windows. There are things I wanted to improve about my Windows experience.

Not only this, but I've also recently built a new desktop gaming PC and have also installed a lot of this software on there too!