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Blau's Mouse Adventures
Categories:
[Computers],
[I Broke It (Then Fixed It)]
I realized yesterday - given my current mouse is giving me fits - that I should bring over the companion from my keyboard adventures: my mouse adventures. Most all of this is copied over from Cohost and Mastodon.
Almost a year ago, the scroll wheel on my mouse - an old version of the Corsair M65...
Blau's Keyboard Adventures
Categories:
[Computers],
[Blau's Adventures]
Back in 2018, my ex gave me a hand-me-down keyboard, his old Coolermaster Quickfire Rapid from about 2012. He'd just replaced it with a newer keyboard for his daily driver, and I don't think he vibed with my keyboard being some old cheap thing with a snapped spacebar (from a failed cleaning attempt,...
Links and Buttons are here!
Categories:
[Computers],
[Site Updates],
[How I Did It]
This post is migrated from my old blog. It's not super relevant to this one, as this blog runs on Grav instead of Jekyll; I copied it over here for completeness. I'll put a new post up with how I accomplish this in Grav.
A little late, but I did finally get the Links and Buttons page up and running! And, as promised, I'll explain how I did it.
Oops, I broke Ruby
Categories:
[Computers],
[I Broke It (Then Fixed It)]
This post has been copied over from my old blog.
Right now, all I use Ruby for is to run Jekyll (and Bundler). I don't really have any other uses for it, though learning how to use Ruby is on my long-term to-do list, even if just enough to be able to read it.
I found out recently (though a G...
Blau's Dual Boot Adventures
Categories:
[Computers],
[From Cohost],
[Blau's Adventures]
This post has been copied over from my old blog.
I originally live-posted this on Cohost, then summarized it on an old Mastodon account. I figured this was a good place to retell, as I call it, The Fucking Saga.
Why I'm a little weird about self-hosting
Categories:
[Computers]
This post has been copied over from my old blog. It's also very funny because this new blog is currently "self hosted".
I've either seen or been directly recommended to self-host things quite a lot - most firmly in my memory is recently when I was asking about Github alternatives, and almost every reply was self-hosting a Git service. Which, while useful, is not exactly the kind of alternative I was looking for (one that someone else hosts, and not me).
From the title, you can probably guess that I am a little, ah, weird about self-hosting. This isn't for any kind of like... ideological reason, but more as a result of Life Experiences™ that I've gone through, and my current life situation, that make it a little infeasible for me to self-host things.
Again, for clarity, I would like to! I would like to learn how to do this and there are a few applications I can think of specifically that I could make good use of right now (e.g. building a Plex collection for my mom). But I'm just not in a position to do so, and it's hard to explain why in a short-form format, so here's a blog post about it.