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  • How Homelabbing is Saving Me Hundreds of Dollars a Year

    How Homelabbing is Saving Me Hundreds of Dollars a Year

    I’ve been a rather busy bee this past month and a half. I already alluded to the fact a while back, but I recently got Jellyfin running on an otherwise neglected Mac mini. I was able to set up a domain to redirect to it and everything, allowing me to replace both TIDAL and just Read more

  • Dumping Spotify and Paid Music Streaming For My Offline Music Collection

    Dumping Spotify and Paid Music Streaming For My Offline Music Collection

    I hinted at the possibility a good while back, but I’ve been rethinking how I enjoy my music over the past few months, and that’s also despite how I said this a good while back now. Why go through all this trouble [with TIDAL, Spotify, and others] when you could just host the music yourself Read more

  • A Few Fast, Easy Commands to Start Using Vimium C

    A Few Fast, Easy Commands to Start Using Vimium C

    I admit that it initially took me a while to really “get” Vim commands, to really appreciate them. That eventually changed, and I still use them in Obsidian to this day. But what if there was a way to get similar commands elsewhere, like in the browser? What if there was a way to control Read more

  • Digital Minimalism and Minimalism Can Contradict

    Digital Minimalism and Minimalism Can Contradict

    There’s this thing out there called “digital minimalism.” You may have heard of it. In short, it’s mostly the idea of digitally decluttering, using fewer apps and social media services on one’s phone or computer. In a perfect world, this leads to us being more productive with our technology overall because we have fewer things Read more

  • A Brief Tribute to the Apple A1048 Keyboard

    A Brief Tribute to the Apple A1048 Keyboard

    I am still a Linux user first and foremost, but I have most definitely ventured further and further down the rabbit hole of tinkering with vintage Apple computers. For those who have followed me long enough, you may know that I primarily grew up running Windows. I’d even say that’s part of why Windows XP Read more

  • I Used a Physical Keyboard on my Pixel 9 for 3 Weeks: A Clicks Review

    I Used a Physical Keyboard on my Pixel 9 for 3 Weeks: A Clicks Review

    Disclaimer: This is not a paid promotion. I paid for the Clicks keyboard in this review out of my own pocket. Thus, I can be as critical and honest about the product as I like. I hope you enjoy. I hinted at it way back when I first started writing about how I turned “The Read more

  • The Black Core 2 Duo MacBook is Still Perfectly Usable

    The Black Core 2 Duo MacBook is Still Perfectly Usable

    I know when I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole. I’m primarily a Linux user first and foremost; I have a desktop running Arch, a secondary workstation running openSUSE, and a server running Ubuntu. Despite that, and despite the fact that I’ve been using macOS on an M1 at work (because it’s either that or being Read more

  • The Usefulness (and Restrictions) of ChatGPT

    The Usefulness (and Restrictions) of ChatGPT

    While I have joked about it frequently in previous posts, I do casually use AI like many people from time to time. On more than one occasion, I’ll open up ChatGPT and type something in, especially if I feel like it’s a little too specific to search for a search engine alone. I know it’s Read more

  • Why Arco Linux Mattered to Me, a Vanilla Arch User

    Why Arco Linux Mattered to Me, a Vanilla Arch User

    Readers who’ve been here for a while know I have been daily driving Arch Linux on my primary desktop for five years now, despite what I said about deleting it in a recent post. While I did dabble in Manjaro a few times in the years before then, I went all-in on vanilla Arch. Of Read more

  • Switching to Windows Content (And Other Major Changes)

    Switching to Windows Content (And Other Major Changes)

    I was hanging out after work the other day with my three best friends: Mike, Twister, and Guinn. We were sharing an entirely modest amount of drinks at our local pub that afternoon. It was only after we sipped some of our lemonade that Mike brought up the idea of himself starting a blog. Twister, Read more