Posts on Ori's Weird Blog

When I was starting my current job I still thought that planned obsolescence in consumer stuff was bad enough.

I finally got around to having fiber installed in my apartment about a week ago!

A couple weeks ago I was talking with someone on Reso about the bHaptics integration being broken for a while.

I thought instead of doing resolutions or wishes, I should make a TODO list for myself, so here’s what I want to (finally) get done in 2026!

This is just a short update about the server that has been hosting this website and all the other stuff I host.

VR on Linux has been known to be a bit of a pain… I’ve written about my experience with SteamVR/ALVR here before, and it was a lot of effort just to get SteamVR crashes that seemingly come back for no reason.

CW: existential, thanatophobia triggers Enough is enough.

First things first, I’m not a huge fan of copyright, especially as it relates to corporations, and especially software they create (which also has additional restrictions to make sure you don’t break thier precious totally breakable locks).

So, let me guess… You finally want to have a fuzzy avatar, or play that Half-Life game, but your OS is special?

Despite the title, I’ll actually touch on multiple topics in this post, so be advised, there will be some existential thoughts involved.

Introduction If you’re reading this, it’s very possible you’ve already seen me rant about chat protcols on fedi, sometimes with a bit too much passion.

After over half a year of dragging it out and being distracted by other things, I finally managed to set up a blog!