A week in and I am still enjoying the reMarkable every day! It’s at 67% battery after all that time. Very cool.
All MicroblogsOn my homelab I had an LXC named “debian”. It was a generic Debian install which served a multitude of uses, most of which I forgot over time. I was going through all my LXCs due to my previous adventure, where I set up a domain name with an SSL certificate for the services on my homelab. I got to this one and wondered what the heck this was for. Turns out a Kali build environment, several defunct scripts, and hosting two different long abandoned personal projects. Lord knows what else this box was subjected to in the past. ...
I have a homelab. It runs many services for me, each in their own little container with its own IP address. Considering none of these services are ever reachable from outside my network (apart from if you’re connected to my VPN), I never felt the need to introduce domain names or HTTPS/SSL. I had a simple web page that had a bunch of links to the IP addresses—complete with port numbers—that I used to navigate these services in my Firefox-based browser: Librewolf. ...
In the past I’ve written about the em dash and how people associate it with text written by AI. My conclusion was that I’ve been using it for ages before AI was a thing and the joke at the end was that I should stop using it, so AI might stop using it, so I can use it again. Well, turns out I have not always been using it. See, there’s different dashes and due to my personal inconsistency and a plethora of text editors, different dashes have appeared in my writing over the years. The one I used most is the hyphen (-). This mark should actually be used (among other things) to connect compound words, like open-source, or for prefixes and suffixes, like co-founder and secretary-general. ...
For a while I have been bitching about YouTube. Here, here, and here just on this site alone. I’ve moaned about it on Discord and in real life too. My main gripes are it’s all AI slop and there’s nothing worth discovering on the homepage of the site anymore. You could keep scrolling and never hit anything worth watching anymore. Unfortunately this didn’t seem to dissuade me from trying anyway. I found myself mindlessly typing the domain in the address bar only to tumble down this list of pointless video thumbnails never actually clicking anything to watch. I could do this for far longer than I’d care to admit to. And I did often. ...
When I got the reMarkable 2 I enjoyed using it very much. It was my go-to way of taking notes in class. Unfortunately after a while, the need to take notes like that vanished, as we went from mainly listening to mainly doing. Now I found myself behind my laptop all day and if the need to take a note arose, launching a quick terminal/micro combination was faster than pulling out the reMarkable. And so it sat in my backpack losing battery until one day it eventually got laid to rest in a drawer in my desk at home. ...
It has been a busy weekend. I completed four different projects all to do with entertainment. It started with me rummaging around in my electronics bin and bumping into the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 WH on Friday evening. I hadn’t actually done anything with this Pi before, so I decided on a whim to see what I could do with it. A little surfing later and the idea of playing retro games on my TV in the living room with my Xbox controller seemed like an amazing thing to me. ...
It’s hard to pick which book to read next. Especially if you have many. I’ve spent far too much time in front of my bookcases, pondering what’s next. Still, standing there I can pull a book and read the jacket. Put it back, read another. On and on until something tickles my fancy. This is impossible with e-books on a Kindle. I just have a massive list of way too many books sitting there with no real way to discover the next binge. I’d either pick at random and live with my choices, or google titles for blurbs on another device. Title after title after title after title… wait—what was that first one again? It’s no way to live. ...
Bananas are amazing. They taste great on their own, in a dessert or even on toast. They’re teaching aids for a sex-ed class and make-believe handguns. There’s likely no human male on the planet who hasn’t pointed one at a fellow human and uttered the word “bang”. Bananas conveniently come in their own packaging and can be carried along with ease in a backpack, tote bag, or even pocket. Bananas aren’t perfect though. They do, for example, force other fruits to ripen prematurely12. ...
A bar is used on a Linux Window Manager to display information like the date, time, volume information and maybe most importantly, on which desktop you are. Most people add way more to their bar, like CPU usage, memory usage, system temperature, hard drive space usage, connection state and many many more. It’s also a part of the look of your desktop which you’re supposed to rice, screenshot and put on /r/unixporn1. ...
The MacBook keyboard layout is wrong. Control goes in the bottom left corner, but for some reason fn is chilling there. My old ThinkPad also had them in the wrong order. I hate this so, so much, and clearly more people dislike it, as the ThinkPad has an actual dedicated BIOS setting to swap the two. Now the Mac offers the ability to change what the keys do too, at least it seems to. Unfortunately, changing the setting in Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → Modifier Keys does nothing for me. Not a clue if this is a me problem or a macOS one. ...
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