I came up with the name for this anonymous blog one day, bored at my 9-5, after spilling a glass of water on my keyboard and frying my charging port. As ...
I've just spent the past 48 hours reorganizing my files and backing them up to external SSD drives. Here's what my setup looks like: Hot Device / Daily Driver My hot device is a portable SSD that can easily fit in my pocket. I think of this as my working drive. I take it with me wherever I go and work directly on it. I use the drive in tandem with Obsidian for daily writing and note taking. The…
Welcome to Subscription Hell. Here you will be greeted with open arms and offered nothing but a humble, free trial . You're curious and think this might help you with work so you sign up for another tool, use it for a few days and then completely forget about it. You've lost track of how many subscriptions you've signed up to by now and you can't be bothered to cancel them because, "It's only a…
Disclaimer : This is not financial advice and everything in this post was written solely for myself. I just bought Bitcoin for the first time since getting my entire crypto portfolio wiped out. This was especially hard because I remember how cheap I'd previously bought it at. Combine this with the challenge of rebuilding a portfolio from zero and it makes it very easy to not want to bother at…
Some days I purposefully leave my Airpods at home and instead of riding the bus or metro glued to my phone, I sit there, silently. I watch everyone else with their heads down and ears stuffed. Most commuters are listening or watching something. Which is what I also normally do but as I said, some days I don't. During this time I can hear and see it all. The sounds of footsteps of people walking…
Okay this is a test. I'm currently writing this inside the Vim text editor. I really like how this looks. It's one giant blue screen being painted with white monospace text. I still don't understand all the Vim commands but I really like how this feels compared to writing in something like Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Over the past year I've started writing everything in either markdown or plain…
Today I met with a lady from Facebook marketplace and purchased an old Thinkpad T490S from 2019. It has 16GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, an Intel i7 processor and the iconic red nipple in the middle of the keyboard. When I got home from the mornings purchase, I immediately began researching which Linux distro I should install on my new machine. I thought about using Arch but instead decided to go with…
My Macbook Air is currently being inspected by the Apple repair team as I wait to hear how much it will cost to fix my machine. I'm trying to decide whether or not I want to pay what I'm assuming will be close to the same price as a new device or opt out of the Apple laptop experience completely. I'm leaning towards getting a cheap, second-hand computer, I can load Linux on and turn it into a…
I ended up taking my water damaged MacBook Air to the Apple Store and was told it needed to be sent away for repairs. The technician said it was most likely going to cost close to the equivalent of the price of an entirely new computer, which really pissed me off. I didn’t like that the Apple employees don’t open their devices and inspect for faults in front of you. All the guy helping me did was…
Yesterday at work I knocked over a glass of water and spilled it all over my personal computer. I immediately ran to the bathroom, grabbed some toilet paper and tried cleaning up the mess. Thankfully, the laptop continued to work for the rest of the day while I continued working on my personal projects on the clock. However, it's the next day and the computer has just died. I'm now unable to…