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My NaNoWriMo 2024 Results
That’s another NaNoWriMo in the books. As I stated one month ago, I wanted to try NaNo for another consecutive year in a row. I tried using my 5 AM Club time for it once again, dedicating my 20 minutes of growth time each morning to writing in the novel. While I did attempt to Read more
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Make macOS Feel More Like Linux
I have a confession to make. While I love Linux and prefer to use it, I haven’t used my openSUSE workstation in the past few months. My reliable ThinkPad has been collecting dust at home. While I am still free to use my tried and true Arch Linux machine at home, my new job’s network Read more
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Another Serious Attempt at NaNoWriMo!
Costumes are coming off, seasonal candy is on clearance, and el Dia de los Muertos is underway. That can only mean one thing: November is here once again, and that means National Novel Writing Month is back. Longtime readers may be getting deja vu looking at this title. However, it’s no mistake. I will once Read more
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I Won’t Let Internet Time Be Forgotten
I’ll be the first to admit it: I’ve never been a big fan of the metric system. Growing up the way I did, I got used to indicating the weather in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius, I always liked seeing my football teams gain yards to score a first down instead of running meters to kick Read more
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Why is My Nextcloud Snap Using More Storage?
Here’s another one of my quick Linux tips, this time largely dealing with what happens to a Nextcloud instance installed with Snap as it takes up too much mystery storage. How Did You Fix It? I still recommend reading up on this before jumping to the solution in case you had the same issue I Read more
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Searching for a Perfect Linux Calendar App
I’ve been trying to deal with a few more matters related to my productivity as of late, especially considering I’ve had a rather eventful July and August. So many things have been happening, and I’ve needed to find better ways to stay productive. I used to time block on paper a lot more often, but Read more
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Omnivore: A Read-It-Later App I Actually Want to Use
UPDATE: As much as I liked using Omnivore, this page didn’t age too well. As of November 2024, Omnivore is shutting down, which will prompt me to continue my search for an alternative. Switching jobs sometimes requires moving out of where you live, further than you expected. Moving can also be expensive, expensive enough to Read more
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Windows XP Is Still My Favorite Windows of All Time
There have been recent developments with myself being hired by a new employer, which has left me without a job for just a couple of weeks. During that time as I got my paperwork, background check, verification, and so on finished before hire, I found myself with an abundance of extra time. Even with the Read more
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I Tried 3 Spotify Alternatives within a Month. Here’s How They Compare.
I started seriously using Spotify approximately nine years ago. My current account is the one I’ve stuck with through thick and thin, and it has so much of my listening history from over the years. But I’d be lying if I said the grass didn’t look greener sometimes. I believe it was almost two years Read more
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Windows is Worsening: Why I’ll Never Go Back
Longtime readers of the blog know I’ve been daily driving Linux since 2020. Said readers may also know I briefly used Linux back in the late 2000s and early 2010s back when I was a young Mr. Hyde, but there are some key differences between both of those stints on Linux (as well as how Read more
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