A Blog by Expatriotic

The text editor you love to hate Even worse for me since I use colemak so the typical way of navigating using the h, j, k, l keys are a little awkward, so I use arrow keys.

Watch this video.

Life Updates & The Tick Incident It’s been a while.

Christmas is over.

If you run a rolling release linux distro like Manjaro or Arch, you must set up Timeshift.

edited Dec 26, 2025 to reflect latest from Manjaro here and here DON'T UPDATE THE GUI WHILE IN THE GUI!

If you are staring at a black screen with error: symbol 'grub_memcpy' not found or a grub rescue> prompt, your update was interrupted.

Downloading an ISO or software application?

Once you have downloaded your verified ISO file, you need to write it to a USB stick.

Got up to 60 pushups a day but pivoting to doing wrist rehab at home.