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  • 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

  • How I Turned The 12 Week Year Into a Game

    How I Turned The 12 Week Year Into a Game

    Welcome back! It’s the long overdue return of the Sudo Science Book Club! In this series of posts, I take a deep dive into books that resonated with me and simultaneously break down what I’ve learned and implemented from them. For the previous posts in the Sudo Science Book Club, see the further reading section Read more

  • An Arch User Learns to Love Snaps

    An Arch User Learns to Love Snaps

    Or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love snapd!” I never thought I’d write about this now, but as a longtime Linux user, I got by using packages in my distro’s default repositories, the AUR, Flatpaks, and the occasional AppImage here or there. When anyone so much as mentioned using Canonical’s Snaps, I usually Read more

  • I Only Consumed Physical Media From a Box for 2 Weeks. Here’s How It Went.

    I Only Consumed Physical Media From a Box for 2 Weeks. Here’s How It Went.

    As my longtime readers know, I love watching videos on YouTube. I enjoy streaming videos from it whether it’s from my Linux machines or even my Xbox console. I even went as far as becoming a YouTube Premium subscriber for the past many years by now, as I love watching videos on my living room Read more

  • Combine Your Second Brain with Zettelkasten

    Combine Your Second Brain with Zettelkasten

    I’m already approaching an entire year of using my current second brain for my personal knowledge management. In case anybody doesn’t remember, I stopped using my old one because it became so bloated with information that didn’t quite matter to me. Instead of scrapping the idea altogether, I decided I just wanted a fresh start Read more

  • Launcher 10 Relieves my Windows Phone Nostalgia

    Launcher 10 Relieves my Windows Phone Nostalgia

    NOTE: As usual, this is not paid or endorsed in any way. Rather, this is an honest review of an Android launcher after I used it for a while. Because nobody has paid me to express myself, I get to be as honest and critical as I like. I didn’t update on this during my Read more