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If you’re wondering why I like system containers, see the previous post, 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.

I’ve been co-hosting Linux Lads for a couple years and recently started co-hosting Linux Downtime.

Hello!

Barring a couple of sections like private feeds from Kill the Newsletter!

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 shifting between too many different platforms.

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 mUh PrIvAcY and saying that these platforms only boosted the bloggers’ ego…

Most of my projects are hosted on Tangled.

One of the things many of us struggle with when setting friends and family up with Linux is remote support.

Many people will disagree but I think IRC is still one of the best chat platforms there is for a number of reasons.

Omar Roth, the developer of Invidious, recently wrote a blog post about Stepping away from open source.

The idea § I’ve found it very difficult to stick to a regular schedule for #100DaysToOffload for various reasons.

I just got a couple of new (and rather expensive) fonts.

After a poll by @karan, I started thinking about where I get my news and decided to subscribe to LWN.

Much to my chagrin, I’ve hardly posted anything at all the past couple of weeks.

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.

Today, our primary purpose was to gather information.

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.

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.

I’m only 8 days into 100 Days To Offload and I’ve already missed two.

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.

I’ve recently decided to attempt to keep all of my notes and everything I’ve learned in a Zettelkasten.

When I was younger, I prided myself on being a classical musician.

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.

The other day, I decided that I wanted to start streaming.

A fedizen, Kev Quirk, issued a challenge (dead link to fedi post) yesterday and I decided to take him up on it.

Continuing with my journey into the world of pipe smoking, I thought I would show what my cellar1 looks like.

I just created a new category called Meta and it’ll be used for updates about this website and about me.

My first computer was an Acer C710 Chromebook.

A few days ago, @klaatu asked if anyone was up for a game of D&D 5e.

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 almost exactly where all the scenes were in the timeline and could quote a fair…

With the emergence of COVID-19, our university shutting down, and everything going remote, this campaign has ended.

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.

Reading methods § Today, I learned that there are three primary ways people read.

Today was, quite honestly, average for this band.

Forward § Every month, Linux Academy releases courses for free.

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 the previous post.

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.

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?

Package configuration § As I said in the last post, this is the file in which you list the applications you wish to install.

I think I’m going to call it a spin . . .

Today I had an orthodontist appointment and a voice lesson.

I’ve been trying off and on for the past few weeks to figure out how to record my 1920x1080 monitor.