Before I switched positions and location at my offline job, I was pretty heavily into writing this book. I'm not sure why I've been on a cooling-off period for a couple of months in regard to writing it, but that's how it's been my whole life. Took me three years...

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So this has been a thing since the beginning of the year. I had planned to bring it down, but couldn't really stomach it and decided not to. But another month or so of the server bills came in, and it's got me feeling very tight on cash. Especially with...

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If you've been on the internet for the past five years, or even the past ten years, you might remember that moment on Twitter where someone noted that the people at Google's headquarters in California took down their "Don't be evil" sign and/or removed it from their CoC, as if...

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This has sort of been a thing since I first relaunched an instance on the ActivityPub network in my efforts to govern my own space, and also get away from bad administration and moderation on past instances (hackers.town to name one, forever banned for telling a bully to shut his...

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What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like? On most mornings I find myself literally crawling out of bed. See, I sleep on top of a mattress that’s topped with memory foam, that’s also topped with more memory foam. I basically sleep in...

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As some who visit this blog, and also my Patreon, may know, for the past month or so, I've gone headfirst completely into Linux leaving Windows in the dust like the roadrunner escaping the coyote. This was largely due-in-part to Microsoft's forced "artificial intelligence" injections into every single piece of...

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You're sitting at a wooden desk in front of a mammoth of a PC tower. It's beige and blocky; the buttons are chunky. Its idling sounds like the low hum of an aircraft taking off, and the hard drive clicks like a woodpecker having a seizure. It's late November 1995,...

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What’s something most people don’t understand? This is an interesting prompt, because there is no way in the world I could possibly know what the average consensus of people usually don't understand. I could say, "Most people don't understand that the genre of Cyberpunk is a warning, not an aspiration."...

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How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals? This is kind of an ambiguous question, at least for me, because I have a lot of goals. But by and large, most of my goals have to do with either learning new things, doing creative...

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In my last post, I suggested you, the reader, abandon Windows, jump ship, get out while you still can, and dive directly into Debian. What I didn't talk about, was how to create a bootable flash drive so that you can install it! This is, of course, sparsely detailed on...

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