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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Privacy update for this blog
In addition to not having trackers or pixels installed on this site, I've also added it as an onion hidden service on the Tor network.
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On subscriptions - 2023 edition
The subscriptions I am paying for in 2023 and why they have stuck around. Every time I total these up I'm always surprised at how much we spend on subscriptions.
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October 2023 Retrospective
All the things I was up to in October, including completely rebuilding my homelab, attending the Jupiter Broadcasting mini-fest, and all the movies I watched for Spooktober.
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2023-2024 winter project planning
A list of various tech projects I think I'm going to do this winter when I have a lot of down time.
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Migrating back to the original Raspberry Pi B+
To save power, I am moving some services back to Raspberry Pi's so I can turn off my homelab server at night. This will be a significant power reduction.
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September 2023 Retrospective
What I've been up to for the last month, including a birthday, getting the house ready for winter, tech projects, movies, books, games, and more.
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I used a 20 year old laptop to write this post
For the last week or so I've been setting up an ancient Compaq laptop with a modern operating system and using it for basic tasks. This is how its gone and what I've learned along the way.
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Using StirlingPDF for homeschooling and owning a business
My wife and I use StirlingPDF nearly everyday to manipulate PDFs and is the best tool I self-host.
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Automating YouTube downloads using RSS and Newsboat
Here's an awesome script I stumbled on for automatically downloading YouTube videos from an RSS feed in Newsboat.
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A mind-blown moment with Audiobookshelf and RSS
Using Audiobookshelf, I imported books and configured a RSS feed so I can listen to books in my podcatcher.
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