Nicholas A. Danes, PhD

This is a mirror of the post on /r/kettlebell: https://www.reddit.com/r/kettlebell/comments/1p5kwbm/an_average_new_dads_approach_to_training_with/ Why this post?

This is a one-off to my blog.

Hi everyone!

One of least favorite things about my personality is I’m a perfectionist when it comes to things I use on a daily basis, especially with technology.

This 3rd part of my de-Googling journey was never meant to be written, but it’s been a roller coaster ride of ups and downs since part 2 written back in February 2021.

Over the past few months, I’ve been looking for a new pair of true wireless (TWS) earbuds and have pretty much returned every pair I’ve tried.

Introduction Hello!

Introduction Over the past year, I’ve been bouncing between several different cloud storage services and/or sync clients, each with their own trade-offs between convenience, privacy, and pricing.

My desk now (Large Photo) Introduction In my last post, I griped about all my issues I was having with macOS and was going to switch over to Windows/Linux with the purchase of a Lenovo Ideapad Slim Pro 7i.

Introduction In my last post, I talked about my adventure with various computing devices in 2021.

Introduction In this post, I wanted to reflect on the changes in devices I’ve had throughout 2021.

Introduction In recent months, I’ve recently kind of stumbled into using more Apple products, all of which are in the ‘budget’ category: Phone: iPhone SE 2020 64 GB I switched to iPhone back in April.

Introduction Last month, I wrote about switching to iPhone from Android and overall I’ve been really happy with the switch.

I am by no means a security researcher, expert or professional.

Background For my daily mobile device, I was using Samsung Galaxy S10e up until recently, when I traded in for a 2020 iPhone SE.

Back in October 2020, I was using Google Photos for my digital photo & video management and sharing platform.

EDIT (2021-05-26): I ended up moving back to Netlify again.

There are variety of file syncing options out there, with the most popular ones being Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, and Microsoft OneDrive.

Back in January, I did a CSS clean up on my website and mentioned that I was still using the default Jekyll Minima, but would have liked to remove my dependency on it.

I haven’ve blogged in a while and I decided I needed to just dump my thoughts about various things that has been occupying my time.

Back in December 2020, I wrote a blog post documenting my de-Googling journey.

I have a tried a variety of Linux desktop environments, but I always find myself coming back to GNOME 3.

Disclaimer: I have no relationship with GoatCounter other than using their service and briefly contributing to the developer on GitHub sponsors; opinions are my own!

On January 1, I decided to try a Yearly Theme over traditional New Yearsabout resolutions, with a Theme Journal to track daily progress.

An updated overview of my full desk setup (Large Photo).

Over the past year, I have made many positive strides in improving my digital privacy.

Edit (Feb 14 2020): I decided to make a small update to the website by incorporating colors using Material Design guidelines.

I’ve been using Linux on/off since about 2009.

I decided to rehost this website to Netlify.

About 5 days ago, I decided to try to take a week off from Mastodon.

I started noticing that I have been creating the same compulsive habits with Fosstodon, the only Mastodon instance that I have been actively involved with.

I’ve seen a lot YouTube videos showing off their phone setups, so I figured why not write a blog post on what my phone setup looks like currently as a means to “snapshot” my technological life.

Since I couldn’ve sleep and was feeling inspired both by Kev Quirk’s Simple.css Jekyll guide and Thumb’s Classless Jekyll site, I decided to clean up with the SCSS files that can be overridden/modified for Jekyll’s default theme Minima.

Spotify is amazing.

On January 1, I decided to try a Yearly Theme over traditional New Yearsabout resolutions.

I’ve always enjoyed looking at and setting up my desk.

Originally, I was going to write a post for setting my 2021 resolutions.

Edited: 01-14-2021 As many more folks in the world seem to feel, many of the services/features provided by “the big 5”, GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) have given us a tremedous amount of convenience, at the cost of our privacy.

Hello, random internet traveler!