Tag: technology
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A Mid-2000s Linux Distro Made Me Wonder What Could Have Been
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I’ll gladly say it until I’m in the grave: Windows XP is still my favorite Windows of all time, period. It’s not even close. But upon thinking about it again, I started to realize something about that period of my life, which I will touch back…
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Scrivenix is the Easiest Way to Run Scrivener on Linux
November is only a month away. While I know that NaNoWriMo has largely started to wane over the past few years, I still practice it every year on my own with whatever novel draft I’m working on, just seeing how far along I’ll get or how my story is going to shape up. But since…
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I Switched from Arch to Gentoo
I’ve been away for a while now, but some of that time was spent compiling… My longtime readers know I’m normally an Arch user. I’ve used Arch Linux as a daily driver since 2020, when I first started running it from a VM during lockdown on my then-main Kubuntu system. While I did love running…
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Making an iPad Useful with a Keyboard
”What’s a computer?” – Some snot-nosed brat, circa 2017. I’m sure everybody can already recall the infamous ad campaign without seeing a link. In case you don’t realize (That’s a rock worth living under!), Apple had an ad campaign back in the day featuring a little girl with a keyboard on her iPad. She ends…
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You Can Bullet Journal from the Terminal
I’ve used a bullet journal for several years now. I mean, it’s the very first thing I wrote about on this site. Additionally, I’ve been running Linux as a daily driver even longer than that, running only a few distros like Arch and openSUSE without distro hopping. As a result of running Linux so often,…
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We’re In a Keyboard Phone Renaissance
I’m already using a Clicks keyboard on my current Pixel 9, and I am mostly satisfied with how my Pixel 9 has performed so far. Despite that, however, I was excited to see the upcoming announcements from Clicks: the Power Keyboard and the Communicator. That said, the Power Keyboard looks much less interesting to me…
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I’m Done with Vim/Nvim Distros
This won’t be too long of a post, but it does somewhat connect with my most recent post about Dank Material Shell. After installing it, I enjoyed the rest of my setup as normal. This felt like the end-all addition to my Hyprland setup. However, I had a different, long-dormant issue that reared its ugly…
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I Used a Physical Keyboard on my Pixel 9 for 7 Months: A Long-Term Clicks Review
Disclaimer: Just like last time, this is still not a paid promotion. I originally paid for the Clicks keyboard in this review out of my own pocket. Same with the other things I mention throughout like the Speck case I was using or the Popsocket accessory I brought up. Thus, I can be completely honest about any…
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I Replaced My Second Brain (and PARA) With My Own Digital System
It’s surely been a while, as 2026 is now approaching. Quite a bit of time has passed since I stopped using the whole BASB “Second Brain” system as conceived by Tiago Forte, almost two months to be more specific. However, that doesn’t exactly mean I stopped using Obsidian altogether. When it comes to meaningful note-taking…
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My NaNoWriMo 2025 Results
December is here again! That can only mean my latest NaNoWriMo attempt is over. Now, before I go on, I’m fully aware that the official NaNoWriMo site is gone and everything, but I still follow the tradition in general regardless. I never really saw the NaNoWriMo event itself being tied so tightly to that organization.…
