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This is the personal blog of Garrett Brown.

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Fedora with a Touch of Vanilla

Ever since I heard about the idea of immutable Linux distros, I was interested in them. A completely new take on the Linux desktop that utilized newer package managers and concepts to make a more solid OS sounded cool to me! And I was especially intrugued by all of the different takes on immutable distros themselves. A couple that caught my eye as a constant distro hopper were BlendOS and…

Repair and Reuse: Using Tech More Sustainably

Back when I was 13, my brother broke the display on his relatively new Galaxy Tab Nook. It was a total accident, so my parents weren’t mad, but buying a new one wasn’t entirely in the cards. But that was also around the same time I was learning more about tech, and at that point I felt comfortable enough to bring up the idea of figuring out how to repair it. My parents decided to let me have a…

The Fediverse: The Good Ending for Social Media

When I was younger, I thought the concept of social media was cool! The idea of people sharing their thoughts and their lives with their friends online was a neat concept to me. So when I joined my first social network, Google+ (I almost feel old saying that,) I thought it was so cool getting to talk with communities of people with similar interests to me. And when I joined Instagram, I felt the…

Favorite Hacker Movies and TV Shows

Hack the planet!