Padraig Fahy

Fix Windows Security on Windows 11 Beta

In the Windows 11 Beta, I experienced an issue with Windows Security (fka. Windows Defender) not working. The shield would appear in the system tray but clicking on it or opening Windows Security from the Start menu wouldn't do anything. To fix this, open Powershell as Admin and copy paste

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[The Jukebox] S7E07 - Kazuhiro Hara - real Emotion

Every few months on YouTube, I am recommended music which I listened to years ago. One of those songs, I am featuring today. 'real Emotion' is the opening song for the 2003 Playstation 2 title, Final Fantasy X-2. It's composed by Kazuhiro Hara and arranged by 'h-wonder' The song's English

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[The Jukebox] S7E06 - Masayoshi Soken - A Long Fall

Earlier this week, Square-Enix finally released the Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers OST onto streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music. This gives me the perfect excuse to highlight one of the biggest memes in Final Fantasy XIV in the last couple of years: A Long Fall. 'A Long Fall'

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Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Benchmark Released

This past Sunday, Square Enix released the benchmark for the upcoming Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Endwalker. The benchmark contains the character creator which allows you to create characters which can be used in the main game when the expansion launches on November 23rd including the new Male Viera race. The

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[The Jukebox] S7E05 - The GazettE - Ganjisuni Akai Bara

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Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2021 - Around the World - Opening Keynote

Naoki Yoshida, Director and Producer of Final Fantasy XIV, took to stage in a closed location and revealed information regarding the new Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Endwalker. Opening with Trailer Scythes confirmed! Fall 2021 release Yoshida is dressed as the new job wielding a Scythe New Jobs Zenos has changed

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How to upgrade Ghost 4 on Plesk Obsidian

This is a follow-on to my previous post about installing Ghost 4 on Plesk Obsidian. As with the previous post: I am not an expert in Docker, npm, node.js or related technologies. What I am documenting here is what worked for myself. This is actually really simple, but, we

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How to install Ghost 4 on Plesk Obsidian

Ghost 4 was released earlier today which brought some nice new features, mainly a way for you to easily create a subscription for your content. Note: I am not an expert in Docker, npm, node.js or related technologies. What I am documenting here is what worked for myself. Pre-requisites

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Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Announced

On a closed theatre set in Tokyo, FFXIV Director Naoki Yoshida, Lead Translator Michael Christopher Koji-Fox brings to us a “Final Fantasy XIV Announcement Showcase” This was supposed to take place at the Final Fantasy Fan Festivals but due to the pandemic, this didn’t happen. An

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[The Jukebox] S7E04 - "What Angel Wakes Me" - Masayoshi Soken

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Alternatives to "BigTech" services

Over the last week, some the major social media sites and services have banned the outgoing President of the United States, Donald Trump due to incitement of violence and hate speech. With people deciding to leave Twitter, Facebook and other social services, some are turning to alternative sites and services.

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Remove joe(.)ie "noscroll"

For a while now, every time that I got to a joe (.) ie article, (A site I don’t particularly like), they have a “noscroll filter” which prevents you from scrolling. This is more than likely due to the adblocking and tracking being disabled by default on

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[The Jukebox] S7E03 Dress Down - Kaoru Akimoto

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Fortress of Lies & End of the Unknown- Keiichi Okabe

Another Nier: Automata related tune featured in the new 24-man Alliance Raid in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers titles: “The Puppets Bunker” which was released as part of Patch 5.3: Reflections in Crystal. During the first ‘trash’ pull and the in-between areas of the raid, you

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[The Jukebox] S7E02 - The Reach of Darkness - Masayoshi Soken

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[The Jukebox] S7E01 - Weight of the World (Prelude Version) - Keiichi Okabe

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[The Jukebox] S6E12 - Rick Takeuchi - Never Gonna Give You Plastic Love

In my previous post, I wrote about listening to a new genre of music, Future Funk for the last couple of years. There has been a sub-genre of Future Funk though which has had a resurgence in the last 10 years, known as City pop. City pop is a loosely

RIP Patrick Fahy. 1960 - 2019

Last Thursday, I lost my father to Stage IV Lung Cancer after a short battle. On November 28th he was diagnosed with Cancer after having a pep scan and the next day, he was in hospital in St. Luke’s hospital for radiation treatment. Unfortunately, 2 days after being

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[The Jukebox] S6E11 - Macross 82-99 - Fun Tonight

A genre that I have been listening to a lot in the last couple of years has been “Future Funk”… ahem, I mean “Ｆｕｔｕｒｅ　Ｆｕｎｋ　因為ヾ” A genre born from the illustrious vaporwave sub-genre which was brought to popularity in the early parts of 2010&

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[The JukeBox] S6E10 – Joji - Slow Dancing in the Dark

George Miller made his name on the internet way before the release and popularity of Slow Dancing in the Dark. For several years, George was under the persona of Filthy Frank. About Joji… Frank had a comedy skit show named The Filthy Frank Show that was on the lines

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[The JukeBox] S6E9 - WILLOW - Wait a Minute!

In my previous Jukebox, I wrote how the video-sharing service, TikTok was exposing artists and their music. Here is another song that was made popular from the app. Will Smith’s daughter Willow burst onto the music scene at just 9 years old when she released the infamous song,

Protect & secure your Facebook account! [2FA]

Previously, I wrote about how to protect your Instagram account. Here is how to do this on Facebook! Note: I would recommend doing this on the desktop version. (Right-click and click on “Open image in new tab” to see them in full resolution) Click on the arrow on

Facebook's 'Page Transparency' & How to know when to spot fake pages!

Back in April of this year, to combat ‘Fake News’, Facebook introduced a new feature on all pages called “Page Transparency”. It allows everyone who vists the page the ability to see various metadata. Facebook’s “Page Transparency” box on Padraig Fahy Support

Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood Screenshots [Album]

Since 17th June 2017, I have taken some screenshots within Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood. As FFXIV: Shadowbringers is going into Early Access tomorrow (28th June 2019), I figured I would upload the images that I have taken over the last couple of years!

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[The JukeBox] S6E8 - Kero Kero Bonito - Flamingo

With the rise of the short-form video sharing service, Tik Tok, (formally known as Musical.ly), it has allowed users to lipsync themselves with audio clips such as music pieces and audio recordings of people talking. There has been also exposure of edited songs such as ‘bad guy but