First Thoughts on Qubes

Holy shit… this is gonna require a mindset shift. I received the laptop I purchased for Qubes… a day early, I wanna say. That was rather nice. It’s a Lenovo Thinkpad P50. I don’t remember how much RAM it came with, but it had a 512GB NVMe M.2...

What Privacy Has Become

I came across something the other day (maybe other week, by now?) that has had me wrestling with my reaction to it ever since. To be quite honest, I’m not even sure how I came across it at this point. What I found was a couple articles by a computer &...

2023 — The New Year

Hello, and welcome to 2023! Yes… I will freely admit that I’m a few days behind on that, but these things happen from time to time. They especially happen when you have the first week of a new year like mine, but that’s a story I shall not revisit...

Geekery

Hello! As I write this, I am sitting in my favorite restaurant on a (formerly) rainy Saturday. I came to my favorite restaurant for two reasons: The food is awesome, and its location has the best 5g cell service for an hour’s drive in any direction. My plan...

Neat Discovery

There are as many way to go about writing a story–whether short story, mid-length, or novel–as there are people who want to write them. A lot of people use Word. A lot of people use Scrivener. I used to use Word when I was a Windows-only shop, but since...

Backups: The Epilogue

A little while ago, I wrote a couple articles about learning why backups are important and, then, following through with the creation of said backups.  If you managed to miss them on my incredibly busy site (try not to trip on the sarcasm, there), you can read them...