Thoughts, opinions, wild speculation, and haphazard technical advice from Dom. I’m a hearing disabled irrigation contractor, B-movie aficionado, self-hoster, and hopeless Linux desktop romantic. Former co-host of Go With The Heat Miami Vice podcast. This site uses no tracking pixels, does not set cookies, and works without javascript. You may also want to checkout my blogroll and a running list of bookmarks I save while browsing. Last, if this is your first time here, check out my favorite posts.
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Leaving Mastodon and all social media for good
Those that have followed me for some time know I haven't been doing well mentally. Things aren't changing, so I'm trying to make some big changes to my life. On Friday I'm going to be turning off my GoToSocial instance and leaving Fedi for good.
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A canceled homelab project
I flirted with rebuilding my homelab. But, decided against it because what I have is exactly what I want. Why mess up a good thing?
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Rant about blogs and the IndieWeb
I'm feeling extra spicy. I want to talk about how exhausted I am with the "IndieWeb". A lot of this is off-the-cuff and I'm sure it will rankle a few folks. I want to say up front, this is a huge rant and I don't blame you for bouncing off it.
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Guide - Installing PostmarketOS on the Asus Chromebook Flip C100P
The Asus Chromebook Flip C100P stopped receiving ChromeOS updates. But, it is community supported with PostmarketOS. Getting PostmarketOS installed is more than a few steps, so buckle up.
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Mini post - Fix it yourself
A short post about my misunderstanding why folks think if Linux breaks you have to fix it yourself, as if that is different from any other desktop.
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Letting go of old hobbies
Something I've lamented the last year or so is it feels like I don't have anything that I would consider a hobby. I realized today I no longer think of tech as a hobby and I need to find something else.
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New series - Good offline apps
Earlier today I enjoyed reading a post that got me thinking more about my experience with software when offline. I want to start a series that will highlight applications I think are doing it well.
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Vibe coding a Gemini Capsule and learning a life lesson in the process
Yesterday I completed a short project to mirror both my blog and Mastodon posts into a feed on the Gemini protocol. This post is not about how I did this (maybe a little), but about how I vibe coded the entire project and why I'm still anti-A.I., even though I published a finish product. There's a lot of emotions and deep thinking I've been doing over the last 48 hours, I'm going to talk about my feelings.
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Using podman, distrobox, chezmoi, and forgejo to create a portable and reproducible terminal environment
I am definitely back on my bullshit. These notes are how to setup the distrobox container, install and configure all my terminal apps, push the image to my Forgejo container registry, and push the config files into a Forgejo dotfiles repo.
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New RSS feeds and other small blog updates
I mentioned before I don't like to write blog posts about updates to my blog. However, I have made some updates I think are worthy of a post. In short, there are now three RSS feeds depending on what you would like to follow from me (thank you), an upvote button, along with some version bumps.
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