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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Using a minimal phone to fight phone addiction
As a former smoker, I understand what an addiction feel is and I'm getting it with my phone. This means something needs to change.
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Microsoft is destroying my kids laptops for no reason
Microsoft's Windows 11 requirements is going to force me to throw out perfectly good laptops my kids use for school for no effing reason other than greed.
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Displaying my bookmarks RSS feed on a static page in Hugo
This post is how I configured Hugo to display a list of bookmarks on my blog, pulling the information from an RSS feed from my self-hosted instance of Shaarli.
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Pinebook Pro + Distrobox + QEMU is fantastic
Using Distrobox and QEMU, I am emulating x86 Arch on Armbian with applications integrated to the system for unlimited software availability.
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Frugal computing and packaging
Looking deeper at my operating system and application choices with a narrow focus on frugal computing should be the task of any tech enthusiast.
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Moving away from my self-hosted Nextcloud setup - Part 1
My Nextcloud instance has become an incredibly slow, monolithic behemoth and I want to split it into multiple smaller services for better speed and features.
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New favorite file manager
I've bounced around with commandline file managers, including using nnn, tuifi, and good old ranger. But, I recently stumbled on yazi and I'm in love.
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Following more blogs and an update to my blogroll
Since I started blogging more in the last year, I've found so many amazing blogs. Truly a reason to start blogging is to find more blogs, and some fantastic people. I have also updated the blogroll on this site with new entries.
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Using a 2013 Surface RT as a thin client
For this years holiday, my wife gave me a collection of misc. old laptops, tablets, and other tech as a gift. One of the items I received was a 2013 Microsoft Surface RT. For my initial project with this device, I decided to remove Windows 8.1, install Raspberry Pi OS, and use it as a pseudo thin client.
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December 2023 Retrospective
Here is what I've been up to for the last month and what items had my attention. It is a mix of home, dealing with some health issues, holidays, movies, and lots of article/blog reading.
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