23 January 2025

by Rob | Jan 23, 2025 | Random Thoughts, Tech Geekery

7:29pm This is the third post in a series chronicling my switch-over from my MacBook to an Ubuntu 24.10 install on my desktop (i.e. my former Windows gaming box). If you arrived here without reading the previous two posts in this series, you might wanna go back and...

22 January 2025

by Rob | Jan 22, 2025 | Random Thoughts, Tech Geekery

9:27am Okay. So, this is the second post in the series about my feelings and response to Big Tech’s push to get more of who we are. I’m not going to re-hash everything I wrote yesterday. If you haven’t read yesterday’s post, you can find it...

21 January 2025

by Rob | Jan 21, 2025 | Random Thoughts, Tech Geekery

12:18pm For those of you who have known me across more than a few years, this post might surprise you. I have reached the point that I don’t like Windows. It’s slowly getting to the point that a more accurate statement is that I don’t like Microsoft....

14 January 2025

by Rob | Jan 14, 2025 | Random Thoughts, Tech Geekery, Writing

6:09pm (Eastern) I was originally going to use this text to replace the content of the January 4th post (read on for an explanation), but about eight minutes in, I figured out how to recover the post content I lost. (More on that below) When I’m owning a dumbass...

8 November 2024

by Rob | Nov 8, 2024 | Random Thoughts, Tech Geekery

10:32pm It has been a little while since I wrote a post here, but like my newsletter, I often only make a post (or send an email newsletter) when I have something that people who follow me may find interesting. If you pay any attention to the categories of my posts,...