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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Little Bits - November 2024
Just a collection of things that either don't warrant a full blog post on their own. Includes finding a new bookmarks manager, consolidating down to just my Chromebook, a fun blog discovery adventure, and car nonsense.
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EDC Internet-in-a-Box project
I'm a bit of a prepper and part of my EDC laptop configuration includes a 3 day offgrid tech setup in my get home bag. This is an introduction to my setup, why it is important to me, and what I want to accomplish.
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Early thoughts on the Duet 3 as my EDC laptop
Aside from some quirks I'll mention, the Lenovo Chromebook Duet 3 what I always wanted in an EDC laptop. It is essentially an Android tablet with a desktop browser and I couldn't ask for anything more.
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Fave Annual Holiday Movies
A list of all our favorite movies to watch during the holidays and are now an annual tradition. We have favorites from Halloween to Valentine's Day.
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Why a Chromebook? Why not a Windows PC?
I've spent some quality time with my new Chromebook this weekend and I'm still having a ton of fun with it. During that time I've also been thinking about why I was fascinated with a chromeOS device and never once considered a Windows PC.
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So... I got a Chromebook
My wife surprised me with a Lenovo Chromebook Duet 3 and I've been having so much fun with it. Between web, Android, and Linux apps this device is an ultraportable that can replace my EDC laptop.
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My EDC ultra-portable laptop
A way too long post about what laptop I carry in my EDC bag. I also lament the poor state of Android going forward and what my new EDC laptop might be.
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EDC Pocket Dump
I was inspired to write a post about the items I keep in my EDC backpack and in my pockets. This post is about what I carry on my person everyday, also called a pocket dump.
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Managing homelab virtual machines from my phone
Using my phone as a desktop replacement, I use Cockpit in the browser and virt-manager in a proot Linux desktop for managing virtual machines on my Ubuntu server.
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Using gtrash with Termux and proot desktops on Android
gtrash is a command line utility that moves files to the system trash can instead of completely removing. I see this as an addition tool to the standard rm command. For most files I want to move them to the system trash so I can restore as necessary, then purging all the files on occasion.
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