I’d been looking for a bit to stop using a display manager for my main, single user computer, since there isn’t a lot of use for a complicated login manager when all I’m going to do is type in my password. This means that I would need to have X (or my desktop environment of choice) start automatically when I log into tty1. You can put this check in your ~/. Read more...

As a newbie website author, my process of post-writing consisted of: Copying the last post I made in raw HTML Erasing the paragraphs and writing new ones Pushing to my server with scp I’m serious! I knew about static site generators, but they all seemed unpleasant and bloated, and not worth the trouble if I’m just going to be writing plain HTML blog posts every few weeks or so. I was on the search for something better, though, since this bad workflow discouraged me from writing. Read more...

Being a student in mathematics, I took all my notes on paper during my first semester. I can’t type math, and even if I could, why would I tie all of my personal reference to a digital format on a machine that could run out of battery? Paper is cool because it doesn’t run out of battery. It’s also not cool because I can’t rice my paper and have a browser open on the side. Read more...

I find often that a computer user carries the attitude that daily computing is kind of whimsical, in the sense that it might seem like a computer does what it wants, and when it doesn’t want something to work one day, it won’t work. The user works for the computer, and not the other way around. “I don’t know why it’s loading so slow. I guess the computer is deciding to throw a fit. Read more...

Front-facing cameras (face-facing?) on laptops are grossly ubiquitous. When was the last time you actually used it? It serves a low quality picture, and you usually just opt to use your phone for that kind of face-technology stuff for a less cumbersome experience. The only purpose they serve is to remind the user that there’s secretly a personal FBI agent watching you do homework. So users cover them up with tape. Read more...

Over the past few years, I’ve been met with questions regarding my decision to not opt-in to certain commonly used software, with Snapchat being the biggest deal. Unfortunately, I historically reach for bad answers, such as “I don’t like it” and “It creates a bad habit”. Now that I have an outlet to concisely and clearly punch words in an HTML box, I will outline the exact reasons I do not use Snapchat, for my personal record keeping. Read more...