Thoughts, opinions, wild speculation, and haphazard technical advice from Dom. I’m a hearing disabled irrigation contractor, B-movie aficionado, self-hoster, and hopeless Linux desktop romantic. Former co-host of Go With The Heat Miami Vice podcast. This site uses no tracking pixels, does not set cookies, and works without javascript. You may also want to checkout my blogroll and a running list of bookmarks I save while browsing. Last, if this is your first time here, check out my favorite posts.
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Letting go of old hobbies
Something I've lamented the last year or so is it feels like I don't have anything that I would consider a hobby. I realized today I no longer think of tech as a hobby and I need to find something else.
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New series - Good offline apps
Earlier today I enjoyed reading a post that got me thinking more about my experience with software when offline. I want to start a series that will highlight applications I think are doing it well.
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Vibe coding a Gemini Capsule and learning a life lesson in the process
Yesterday I completed a short project to mirror both my blog and Mastodon posts into a feed on the Gemini protocol. This post is not about how I did this (maybe a little), but about how I vibe coded the entire project and why I'm still anti-A.I., even though I published a finish product. There's a lot of emotions and deep thinking I've been doing over the last 48 hours, I'm going to talk about my feelings.
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Using podman, distrobox, chezmoi, and forgejo to create a portable and reproducible terminal environment
I am definitely back on my bullshit. These notes are how to setup the distrobox container, install and configure all my terminal apps, push the image to my Forgejo container registry, and push the config files into a Forgejo dotfiles repo.
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New RSS feeds and other small blog updates
I mentioned before I don't like to write blog posts about updates to my blog. However, I have made some updates I think are worthy of a post. In short, there are now three RSS feeds depending on what you would like to follow from me (thank you), an upvote button, along with some version bumps.
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I finally put Linux on this Chromebook Duet 3
It finally happened. I removed ChromeOS from my Lenovo Chromebook Duet 3 and installed PostmarketOS Linux. This post is an overview of how it went using ChromeOS, what made me switch, and how it has been going with PostmarketOS.
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Why are you insulting people this way?
Content warning - This post mentions genitals. It discusses my confusion around insulting people by mentioning their genitals.
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Migrating a persistent USB MX Linux install to a virtual machine
After getting my installed and configured over the last few days, the next step is getting various testing environments loaded. Today I was able to get a full desktop rolling using my persistent USB MX Linux install and transferring it to a virtual machine on this mini PC.
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Upgrading my LAN VPS testing server
Way back in June I wrote about building a LAN VPS for testing. Today I finished migrating my previous build to a new (to me) mini PC so I can run more virtual machines, containers, and other apps in a testing environment before moving to my homelab.
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On Ko-fi links and goals for YouTube
I don't like to write meta posts about this site. However, I wanted to publish some notes on why I added Ko-fi links to my blog, how that applies to Never Monetize, and my plans for my YouTube channel in 2026.
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