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I seem to have a lot of suggestions to share with friends about managing disks on a linux livecd.

You want to use sudo -i or su - to log into root. sudo su anything is superfluous, because you probably should be using sudo -i or sudo -s, which are roughly equivalent, depending if you want to simulate a login (su - or sudo -i) or not (su or sudo -s).1…

Disclaimer: Dvorak, fancy keyboards, whatever, does not replace good lifestyle habits such as computer breaks, good desk ergonomics, and balancing one’s computer life with gasp real life.

Sometimes I find myself setting up servers on networks with less than ideal network configuration.

For a couple months now, I have noticed that running dmesg -w on my workstation does not appear to print out new kernel messages.

Zathura is a fantastic PDF viewer.

During these interesting times, I figure it would be a good idea to describe how I’ve been keeping myself busy, bugs I’ve fixed, and some of the daily tasks/routines that keep my day structured.

I recently moved, and my new abode has an Ubiquiti Amplifi LAN.

Previously I detailed how I set up blog.winny.tech using GitHub for source code hosting and Caddy’s git plugin for deployment.

Most of my workstations & laptops require a passphrase typed in to open the encrypted root filesystem.

This most recent weekend (November 16th) I attended the Milwaukee Code Camp and was pleased with the content.

About a fortnight ago (Nov 9th) I went to the MSOE x Google Cloud hackathon.1 There was pizza, soda, and Google Cloud gear.

I attended the GDG Milwaukee 2019 DevFest last Saturday.

I ran into a hang today with only ivy enabled and nothing else configured or installed.

Awhile back I noticed my personal mnt/ directory, my (empty) personal tmp/ directory, and a few symbolic links disappeared from my home directory.

On my Gentoo desktops, I use Emacs Daemon via sys-emacs/emacs-daemon1 to ensure an Emacs instance is ready to go and always available from boot.

As a heavy user of SSH to manage computers and IRC via command line clients, the most used application on my phone besides the web browser is a SSH client.

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Criteria After reviewing a list of org-mode1 capable static website generators2, I decided to see if org-static-blog3 could suffice my simple needs.

Redshift is a screen-tinting program that achieves similar goals to the popular f.lux1 program.