When the internet is at its best, damn do I love it. We recently moved into a new house and I could not for the life of me figure out what material the new countertops were made from. After spending a bunch of time trying to figure it out myself reading around, I caved and went ahead and just posted on the r/countertops subreddit. Within ten minutes I had multiple very informative answers with a…
Below you will find a list of some distributions I'd recommend. Now a distro doesn't nessicarily mean you're tied into a desktop envorinment. Many of these support many different ones out of the box. Super quick definitions of basic terms for linux os setups: Distro (distribution) -> The whole package. The kernel, package manager (software getter), and anything that is default and/or pre installed…
One of the tricky-est and stickiest holes you can fall down as someone who likes to learn, who loves process, is what I like to call the tinker's dilemma. There's a point where the act of tinkering, playing with, or god forbid planning a project or hobby becomes the entire hobby itself. I saw a YouTube video recently that described that state as "tutorial hell," the point where researching…
As I've been continuing my experiment with music Un-streaming , it's made me appreciate music and my time with it more fully again. Fewer options and more friction have given me deeper enjoyment. So I've started looking for other ways to apply some of this system to other media. There's just something to your media taking up space digitally or physically. Here's what I've come up with so far…
As I was building out this blog in its current form I had the "written by a human/ not by ai " badge living in my footer for a while. This seems to be pretty ubiquitous in the indie web community at this point and I completely understand why. In the era of LLMs and big tech shoving it down our throats at every corner it feels like we can never catch our breath or our morals. Frankly though using…