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If you’re wondering why I like system containers, see the previous post, LXD: Containers for Human Beings. Installation § Note: the instructions below say to install LXD …
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LXD: Containers for Human Beings
This is a blog post version of a talk I presented at both Ubuntu Summit 2022 and SouthEast LinuxFest 2023. The first was not recorded, but the second was and is on SELF’s …
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I’ve been co-hosting Linux Lads for a couple years and recently started co-hosting Linux Downtime. I mention them on the home page of this site, but didn’t consider …
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Pull vs push: intentional notifications
I’ve recently noticed that many of my peers are sometimes overwhelmed by the internet; they feel as if they’re stretched too thin and that their attention is constantly …
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For a long time, I was so vehemently opposed to analytics on personal websites that I condemned people using privacy-respecting systems like Plausible on their blog, shouting about …
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(Ab)using mesh networks for easy remote support
One of the things many of us struggle with when setting friends and family up with Linux is remote support. Commercial solutions like RealVNC and RustDesk do exist and function …
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Many people will disagree but I think IRC is still one of the best chat platforms there is for a number of reasons. However, the documentation surrounding it is sometimes lacking, …
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Omar Roth, the developer of Invidious, recently wrote a blog post about Stepping away from open source. While I never used the official instance, I thought this was a good …
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The idea § I’ve found it very difficult to stick to a regular schedule for #100DaysToOffload for various reasons. Chief among them is simply that I don’t have enough …
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I just got a couple of new (and rather expensive) fonts. So far, I’m incredibly happy with them and think it was money well-spent for a few reasons. Created by Matthew …
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After a poll by @karan, I started thinking about where I get my news and decided to subscribe to LWN. Their content is really good, they’ve been running for a long time, and …
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Much to my chagrin, I’ve hardly posted anything at all the past couple of weeks. This is partly due to university summer classes starting and partly due to me putting some …
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A (Mostly) Google-Free Android
Let me put a little disclaimer right here at the beginning: I don’t use my mobile phone how a lot of people do so your mileage will vary. I also say “Mostly” in …
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Today, our primary purpose was to gather information. We rose, ate a quick breakfast, and then headed into the city. Saltmarsh is a very busy, bustling little town. Ships were …
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I recently started using calcurse for my calendar and one of its limitations is good notification support in the generally accepted meaning of the word. The developer has a …
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Adding A (Better) Scroll To Top Button Without JavaScript
I’m a fan of using as little JavaScript as feasible on a website and implementing a scroll-to-top button in JS is just ridiculous. Nevertheless, there seems to be a plethora …
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I’m only 8 days into 100 Days To Offload and I’ve already missed two. The biggest reason is that this is finals week and all my time right now is taken up by studying …
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I haven’t been able to come up with a specific topic for today so this is just a kind of generic update about me. Zettelkasten § In my previous post about Vim, I briefly …
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I’ve recently decided to attempt to keep all of my notes and everything I’ve learned in a Zettelkasten. After reading Daryl Sun’s blog post, I started looking …
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When I was younger, I prided myself on being a classical musician. I played piano and organ, I was in a nearby fine arts university’s choir (singing soprano of course), and, …
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Well I had planned to write a post about music this evening but I just spend two hours making the post’s cover image, a guitar. Lately, I’ve been basing my images on …
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The other day, I decided that I wanted to start streaming. I’ll definitely be playing some games but I might also stream some other things like me playing music. We’ll …
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A fedizen, Kev Quirk, issued a challenge (dead link to fedi post) yesterday and I decided to take him up on it. In the time between then and now, he’s actually set up a …
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Continuing with my journey into the world of pipe smoking, I thought I would show what my cellar1 looks like. It’s not much—just some jars and a pipe stand on my dresser—but …
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I just created a new category called Meta and it’ll be used for updates about this website and about me. The first thing is that I didn’t realise until a few minutes …
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Typing International Characters
My first computer was an Acer C710 Chromebook. There were a lot of problems with it but one thing I always appreciated were its dead keys. Until a few days ago, I had completely …
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A few days ago, @klaatu asked if anyone was up for a game of D&D 5e. I didn’t notice it until I saw @ShellOwl’s reply (dead link to reply on fedi) in my local …
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The Lord of the Rings is one the greatest book series I have ever read as well as one of my favourite movie trilogies; when I was younger, I watched them so often that I knew …
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(Temporary?) Death of the Campaign
With the emergence of COVID-19, our university shutting down, and everything going remote, this campaign has ended. Our DM and a few of the other guys don’t like playing …
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I recently posted about getting through 487 feed items in less than half an hour and I thought I would write about my setup here. There are three primary applications that require …
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Reading methods § Today, I learned that there are three primary ways people read. The first and most common is mental reading and this is when you “say” the words in …
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Today was, quite honestly, average for this band. Before I get into what happened, however, I had better introduce myself. I am Krozn’ik, a half-orc. I know not where I was …
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Downloading courses from Linux Academy
Forward § Every month, Linux Academy releases courses for free. I’m a very busy college student and don’t have time to whirl through everything I want to before it goes …
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Removing your site from the Wayback Machine (GPG)
Preface § If you simply want to remove your website and nothing else, read through the setup and verifying identities sections then continue from the For domains you own section of …
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Removing your site from the Wayback Machine (Keybase)
Preface § There may be a myriad of reasons you want to do this, from removing sensitive information to regaining a measure of control over your content. Whatever your purpose, …
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We all love the CLI (and if we don’t, we should) so wouldn’t it be great if there was a tool to see your weather forecast with a single command? Ceda EI at …
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Arch Spin pt. 3 - packages.x86_64
Package configuration § As I said in the last post, this is the file in which you list the applications you wish to install. I won’t list the defaults because there a lot. …
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Arch Spin pt. 2 — Initial setup
I think I’m going to call it a spin . . . Install the package archiso from the official repos or archiso-git from the AUR $ mkdir ~/<build-directory> Replace …
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Arch Spin pt. 1 — The perfect bootable
Today I had an orthodontist appointment and a voice lesson. The appointment was at 15:00 and the voice lesson at 16:00. I got to the orthodontist’s office 10 minutes early, …
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I’ve been trying off and on for the past few weeks to figure out how to record my 1920x1080 monitor. The recording is going to be some music videos for a friend. Originally, …