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Continuing my Quest for the "Perfect" Laptop

So I feel like I've written about this before, but about 2 years ago I moved to a gaming laptop as my primary computer. I tried Linux on it, but eventually gave up because of issues with docks / multiple screens. It crapped out last year, so I had

2024 Year in Review

This has been a heck of year, and at least at a personal level, it's been pretty amazing across the board. Travel: Did a lot of travel this year. Had my first date week with my wife since pre-children. We went to the English countryside for a week,

Converting Old Slides to Digital

I've been working on a number of archival tasks for both my family and my wife's family. This is mainly digitizing old videos, photos, 8mm, and others so that we have a solid digital repository of this stuff. My main focus has been the 8mm videos

The 2025 Camry XSE

So, I did something financially ill-advised, and traded in my 2023 Camry XSE to a 2025 Camry Hybrid XSE. Total cost was $50 a month more than I was paying at present, mainly due to interest changes. Yes, not the best financial move, but I had originally wanted a hybrid,

Emergency Laptop Acquired

Hit 6 days waiting for the laptop, and I got nervous since I'm holding up doing school and the like without a functional laptop. So I did what any sane person would do. I went to Best Buy, and picked up the cheapest laptop they had. It'

On Declouding [Part 2]

So we're going to start here, with what was supposed to be focused on Apps for Linux with a little story about Asus. I got the Asus STRIX G16 (2023) about a year and a month ago. You can probably see where this is going. The battery seemingly

On Declouding [Part 1]

With all the mass AI scraping [3rd party and 1st party], I've started taking a serious look at what I'm running on a day to day basis, and what I can shift away from or otherwise minimize my usage of. The first thing I looked at

On the UK

Took my first trip out of the country last week. Went to England, and stayed in Harrogate for the week. It was the first real vacation my wife and I have done sans kids, and was incredibly needed as we've been at a dead run for ages now.

More on Ghost Migration

So, I've moved over to Ghost to get away from Wordpress. There was just too much there that I wasn't using, and thus a bit of an unnecessary use of resources. I like self-hosting, so Ghost made sense as a lightweight site with some options for

Moving to Ghost

I've moved over to Ghost while on vacation. Going to be moving the old posts over as I can. Thankfully, it's mostly text!