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2026 13

  1. Implementing a 3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2
  2. Are LLMs 'Other Minds'?
  3. Why I Stopped Paying to Host Two Static Sites
  4. Converting FLACs to Opus
  5. Why We Believe in the Preposterous
  6. How to Pass the CCNA
  7. Why I'm Not On Reddit
  8. OPNsense on a Palo Alto Firewall Appliance
  9. Reviving an Obsolete NAS with Alt-F
  10. Self Hosting Passwords
  11. A Rant on Owning a Modern EV
  12. Minimizing and Finding Satisfaction with Less
  13. How to Build a Time Machine: A GPS-Disciplined Stratum 1 NTP Server

2025 13

  1. Ignorance is Bliss
  2. Owning a Domain Increases Digital Self-Reliance
  3. Resolving I/O Errors on RPI5 with NVMe
  4. A Reminder on the Realities of Digital Purchases
  5. The Anatomy of an SSH Config
  6. Terminally Online: When the Internet Becomes Your Reality
  7. My Experiences as a Digital Nomad
  8. How I Fell Into the Habit of Watching More TV
  9. The Dark Forest Hypothesis
  10. Installing Pihole on Fedora Server 42
  11. Awesome Yet Challenging Experiences with Proxmox
  12. Auto-mounting an Encrypted LUKS Drive at Startup
  13. Accessing Home Network Resources with a Cloudflare Tunnel

2024 28

  1. How To Tell If You're Behind a CGNAT
  2. Fatherhood
  3. The Myers-Briggs Horoscope: Why the MBTI Personality Test Is Pseudoscience
  4. Configure a Cisco Switch or Router from Linux
  5. How to Set Up a Samba Share on a Linux Server
  6. How to Use Signal Messenger from the Terminal with scli
  7. Desktop Programs I Use in 2024
  8. The Booklight is the Pinnacle of Human Technology
  9. Device Naming Convention for My Network
  10. I Don't Care About Traffic or Analytics
  11. Why I Don't Have a Comments Section
  12. Our Mental Life is a Product of What We Pay Attention To
  13. The E-Ink Smartphone That I Adore & Despise - Hisense A7 Review
  14. Allowing Yourself To Be Bored
  15. How to Get the RSS Feed For Any YouTube Channel
  16. Four Months Into Using Kagi as My Default Search Engine
  17. A Professional Transition to Networking & IT
  18. The Kafkaesque Experience of Setting Up a Linkedin Account
  19. Why I Started Working at a Floor Desk
  20. The Obliteration of Consciousness
  21. When People Asked If I Was 'Okay'
  22. What's Natural About Eating Meat in Modern Society?
  23. On Terminal-Based Programs and What's Optimal
  24. Switching to GNOME - Simpler Doesn't Mean Minimal
  25. Training Attention
  26. Meditations on Violence
  27. You Don't Need a Dumbphone
  28. Properly Settings Goals

2023 33

  1. Is Social Media Making Us Stupid?
  2. Goodbye, Austin Texas
  3. Learning to Learn
  4. On Pirating and DRM
  5. TV's Purpose and the Need to be Entertained
  6. The Defeatist Attitude Against Space Exploration
  7. A Brief Review of the (small-ish) Pixel 4a
  8. Visiting Singapore, Indonesia, & Malaysia with a Vietnamese Tour Group
  9. Most People Are Radically Different Offline
  10. Why I'll Only Work Remote (or Why I Hate Offices)
  11. Is Censorship Really a Thing in the US?
  12. Bringing Sanity to YouTube with yt-dlp
  13. Finance, Frugality, & Independence
  14. Video Games and Spinning on the Hamster Wheel
  15. Understanding The Anthropic Principle
  16. The Idea of Recycling Plastic is Mostly Greenwashing
  17. My E-Ink "Writerdeck" Setup
  18. How I Use Termux
  19. Own Your Content, Own Your Platform
  20. Full Content RSS Feeds
  21. Thoughts on Audiobooks
  22. 30 Days of Tracking My Behavior
  23. Social Media Turns You Into an Asshole
  24. Reading Notes: Stolen Focus
  25. On Device Repairability and User Hostile Business Practices
  26. Why I'll Do Just About Anything to Avoid an Advertisement
  27. Twitter Is Not the Public Square
  28. Bookmarking - Blogroll, Links, Articles
  29. pass - An Offline Terminal-Based Password Manager
  30. Use Your Own Domain for All Your Email
  31. Just Let Me Delete My Account
  32. Reducing Digital Clutter
  33. Dumbing Down the Smartphone (2023 Phone Setup)

2022 34

  1. Certified Associate in Project Management
  2. Voice Assistants Have Always Been Kind of Stupid
  3. Privacy Shouldn't Require a Criminal Mindset
  4. Narrowing Focus To What's Essential
  5. What We Focus On Determines Our Reality
  6. Offline: Why I Avoid Cloud Storage Services
  7. Microsoft Windows is Adware
  8. Is Decentralized Social Media Better?
  9. Creating an RSS Feed from Scratch
  10. Switching to XFCE4
  11. Vim Basics
  12. Liberating a Dell Chromebook 11 3120 with GalliumOS/Linux
  13. The Fermi Paradox & the Rare Earth Hypothesis
  14. How to clone a LUKS partition to a new drive
  15. Traveling Light: Notes on Living Out of a Backpack for 3 Months
  16. How I Mitigate Distractions on my Smartphone
  17. Some Useful Bash Aliases
  18. Bali, Indonesia
  19. Transitioning to a Static HTML/CSS Website
  20. The Requirement to Have a Smartphone
  21. Phuket, Thailand
  22. Cash is King: Why Cash Is Superior to Mobile Payments & Credit Cards
  23. Looking Up Definitions Directly in the Terminal
  24. Who Actually Owns Your Device?
  25. The News is Information Junk Food
  26. How the Laundry Room became a Cyberpunk Dystopia
  27. How to Setup Let's Encrypt SSL with Namecheap
  28. SEO is Ruining Search
  29. Masculinity & Meat Consumption
  30. Some Useful ADB Commands
  31. Free Your Wireless Router
  32. Rooting the Onyx Boox Poke 3 (and Leaf) + Removing Spyware and Bloat
  33. The Reality of Using a .XYZ Top Level Domain
  34. Honolulu, Hawaii 2022

2021 24

  1. Some Useful ffmpeg Commands
  2. The Simulation Argument
  3. Car Ownership Equates to LESS Personal Freedom
  4. A More Minimal, Less Annoying Way to Use YouTube
  5. What is an Email Forwarding Service and Why Should You Use It?
  6. Floating in the Void - Experiences With Sensory Deprivation
  7. Converting multiple FLAC files to OGG
  8. Splitting FLAC Files from the Terminal
  9. My Problem With Facebook
  10. Using Linux Full-Time for Work & Play
  11. What are Dark Patterns?
  12. Read A Fucking Book (on Your Phone)
  13. chuck is...
  14. Upgrading the Pixel 2 XL to LineageOS 18.1
  15. The Modern Internet is Bloated
  16. Why Personal Websites are Important
  17. Politics Is Too Small
  18. Removing Comment Sections from News Sites is a Good Thing
  19. Ride A Fucking Bike
  20. Why I'm Not on LinkedIn
  21. Merging My Websites
  22. Smartphone Minimalism
  23. Why an RSS Feed Is Superior to a Social Media Feed
  24. Some Thoughts on Section 230

2020 15

  1. Disabling Bloatware on Android
  2. Why I DeGoogled
  3. Updating the Linux Kernel on LMDE 4
  4. Portland to Austin
  5. Why I No Longer Use MEGA's Encrypted Cloud Storage
  6. The Value of Higher Education
  7. Donating to Security and Privacy Advocating Organizations & Projects Pt. 2
  8. Dog Mountain, WA - 2020
  9. Getting Linux Mint to Remember a Bluetooth Mouse After Reboot
  10. You Are Not Your Thoughts - Experiences With Meditation
  11. Why Use Encrypted Messaging & Email?
  12. Donating to Security and Privacy Advocating Organizations & Projects
  13. The End of Ownership in a Digital Age
  14. Some thoughts on Free Will
  15. Getting My Data Back From Google

2019 1

  1. Vietnam - 2019

Undated 3

  1. Singapore - 2019
  2. Human Morality - A Product of Evolution, Culture, or Religion?
  3. Jiu-Jitsu