I think I have typed this on the blog many a time, I flip flop between distrobutions and desktop environments often. Sometimes this is simply a stress managment thing for me. I find the swap of distro as a means of finding a moment of Zen in a stressful time …
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Taking an Uber
While it was not as friendly, my car dealership has moved from paid staff to shuttle customers to their workplaces and back, to a model of providing $20 of Uber credits for a ride. I have feelings about Uber around how the media details how they treat drivers by "enshitifying …
read moreSelf hosting podcasts
I have been a faithful user of Pocketcasts for years. In many ways, it allowed me to discover and then listen to podcasts that I enjoy today. After a time, Pocketcasts were accquired by Automattic the company that is also behind WordPress. As seen in the news there are issues …
read moreEnjoying the Hamness
As I continue the ham radio journey, there are so many little joys in the hobby. Here's a few highlights over the last several weeks:
- I started using World Radio League as my log book of choice. Is it freedom and privacy loving (as a Linux user)? Maybe or maybe …
Building an dipole
It's been awhile, sorry...
So now that I have passed my ham radio license, I have spent time on the 2m band chatting with a number of contacts in the local area. I have started to use APRS with a cable and my Baofeng UV-5R with some success (receive, no …
read moreSpending time with Ubuntu 24.04
While I hate this about myself, I tend to bounce around between distributions. I fully realize that this is helpful to those communities, but in my defense I don't move to something else because of a bug - it's actually more of curiosity in how someone else is approaching the Linux …
read moreKeeping myself fresh
I used to feel that I was just wasting time when I would install yet another Linux distribution. I bounce around between different Linux distributions, different desktop environments, and occasionally even going back to Windows. With the vast improvements in distribution installers an fresh install of say Fedora or Ubuntu …
read moreReflecting on faith
In listening to an episode of This American Life about one ex-Christian's reflections on his Christian upbringing. The presenter clearly had some difficult experiences within a church community on multiple facets. The episode caused me to think through my own experience with faith.
I didn't totally grow up in a …
read moreA little stressed
In a recent episode of the Happiness Lab Podcast Dr. Laurie Santos deals with the human response to stress. I listened to this episode on a day that I had just ran 8km that morning and generally was feeling a sense of general positivity.
As you already assumed, today has …
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