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If you’re wondering why I like system containers, see the previous post, LXD: Containers for Human Beings.
Installation …
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LXD: Containers for Human Beings
This is a blog post version of a talk I presented at both Ubuntu Summit 2022 and SouthEast LinuxFest 2023. The first was not recorded, but …
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I’ve been co-hosting Linux Lads for a couple years and recently started co-hosting Linux Downtime. I mention them on the home page of …
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Pull vs push: intentional notifications
I’ve recently noticed that many of my peers are sometimes overwhelmed by the internet; they feel as if they’re stretched too …
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For a long time, I was so vehemently opposed to analytics on personal websites that I condemned people using privacy-respecting systems like …
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(Ab)using mesh networks for easy remote support
One of the things many of us struggle with when setting friends and family up with Linux is remote support. Commercial solutions like …
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Many people will disagree but I think IRC is still one of the best chat platforms there is for a number of reasons. However, the …
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Omar Roth, the developer of Invidious, recently wrote a blog post about Stepping away from open source. While I never used the official …
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The idea
I’ve found it very difficult to stick to a regular schedule for #100DaysToOffload for various reasons. Chief among them is …
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I just got a couple of new (and rather expensive) fonts. So far, I’m incredibly happy with them and think it was money well-spent for …
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After a poll by @karan, I started thinking about where I get my news and decided to subscribe to LWN. Their content is really good, …
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Much to my chagrin, I’ve hardly posted anything at all the past couple of weeks. This is partly due to university summer classes …
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A (Mostly) Google-Free Android
Let me put a little disclaimer right here at the beginning: I don’t use my mobile phone how a lot of people do so your mileage will …
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Today, our primary purpose was to gather information. We rose, ate a quick breakfast, and then headed into the city. Saltmarsh is a very …
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I recently started using calcurse for my calendar and one of its limitations is good notification support in the generally accepted meaning …
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Adding A (Better) Scroll To Top Button Without JavaScript
I’m a fan of using as little JavaScript as feasible on a website and implementing a scroll-to-top button in JS is just ridiculous. …
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I’m only 8 days into 100 Days To Offload and I’ve already missed two. The biggest reason is that this is finals week and all my …
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I haven’t been able to come up with a specific topic for today so this is just a kind of generic update about me.
Zettelkasten
In my …
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I’ve recently decided to attempt to keep all of my notes and everything I’ve learned in a Zettelkasten. After reading Daryl …
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When I was younger, I prided myself on being a classical musician. I played piano and organ, I was in a nearby fine arts university’s …
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Well I had planned to write a post about music this evening but I just spend two hours making the post’s cover image, a guitar. …
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The other day, I decided that I wanted to start streaming. I’ll definitely be playing some games but I might also stream some other …
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A fedizen, Kev Quirk, issued a challenge (dead link to fedi post) yesterday and I decided to take him up on it. In the time between then and …
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Continuing with my journey into the world of pipe smoking, I thought I would show what my cellar1 looks like. It’s not much—just some …
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I just created a new category called Meta and it’ll be used for updates about this website and about me. The first thing is that I …
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Typing International Characters
My first computer was an Acer C710 Chromebook. There were a lot of problems with it but one thing I always appreciated were its dead keys. …
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A few days ago, @klaatu asked if anyone was up for a game of D&D 5e. I didn’t notice it until I saw @ShellOwl’s reply (dead …
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The Lord of the Rings is one the greatest book series I have ever read as well as one of my favourite movie trilogies; when I was younger, I …
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(Temporary?) Death of the Campaign
With the emergence of COVID-19, our university shutting down, and everything going remote, this campaign has ended. Our DM and a few of the …
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I recently posted about getting through 487 feed items in less than half an hour and I thought I would write about my setup here. There are …
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Reading methods
Today, I learned that there are three primary ways people read. The first and most common is mental reading and this is when …
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Today was, quite honestly, average for this band. Before I get into what happened, however, I had better introduce myself. I am …
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Downloading courses from Linux Academy
Forward
Every month, Linux Academy releases courses for free. I’m a very busy college student and don’t have time to whirl …
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Removing your site from the Wayback Machine (GPG)
Preface
If you simply want to remove your website and nothing else, read through the setup and verifying identities sections then continue …
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Removing your site from the Wayback Machine (Keybase)
Preface
There may be a myriad of reasons you want to do this, from removing sensitive information to regaining a measure of control over …
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We all love the CLI (and if we don’t, we should) so wouldn’t it be great if there was a tool to see your weather forecast with a …
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Arch Spin pt. 3 - packages.x86_64
Package configuration
As I said in the last post, this is the file in which you list the applications you wish to install. I won’t …
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Arch Spin pt. 2 — Initial setup
I think I’m going to call it a spin . . .
- Install the package
archisofrom the official repos orarchiso-gitfrom the AUR $ mkdir …
- Install the package
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Arch Spin pt. 1 — The perfect bootable
Today I had an orthodontist appointment and a voice lesson. The appointment was at 15:00 and the voice lesson at 16:00. I got to the …
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I’ve been trying off and on for the past few weeks to figure out how to record my 1920x1080 monitor. The recording is going to be some …