[drop_cap]I[/drop_cap]’ve recently migrated all my work machines from Windows to Linux because I finally grew tired of Microsoft’s adware nonsense. And yet, they still managed to throw a wrench into my workflow. As many of you know, Microsoft has their own little “Authenticator” app that acts as an MFA gateway. When you sign in to […]
[drop_cap]L[/drop_cap]ast year I bought an ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED (UM3406HA) with the sole purpose of running Linux on it. Everything just worked out of the box, except for one minor annoyance: the keyboard backlight. You can turn it on and off just fine. But if you want it to automatically dim after some idle time, […]
[drop_cap]M[/drop_cap]ost scam and phishing emails these days get flagged pretty consistently by inbox providers. Your run-of-the-mill bad actor blasts their missive over disposable VPS boxes or compromised machines until IP reputation gets burned. Eventually Gmail or Yahoo just puts them onto a blocklist, so you won’t even see them in your spam folder anymore, they […]
[drop_cap]B[/drop_cap]ackground radiation in space is a crazy thing. At any given moment cosmic rays, mostly protons and heavier nuclei flung out by exploding stars, punch straight through the hull of a spacecraft and through an astronaut’s eyeball. Can’t do much about it. Apollo 11’s crew reported seeing flashes of light on the way to the […]
[drop_cap]W[/drop_cap]orking on non-US keyboards can be challenging when common tools and specs expects standard layouts. For example, I use a German keyboard which has a bunch of “fun” quirks: Y and Z are swapped @ is typed with AltGr (right Alt) + Q double quotes (") are on Shift + 2 forward slash (/) on […]
[drop_cap]T[/drop_cap]here is this strange affectation that comes with using tiling window managers: EVERYTHING has to be a hotkey. If you don’t wield a gazillion keybinds you are failing in the Way of The Tile. Don’t want to memorize five-finger chord contortions just to launch your music player? “Skill issue. Git gud.” I think that’s a […]
[drop_cap]A[/drop_cap]dobe isn’t exactly a beloved company these days. People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives, not because anyone is genuinely excited about these tools. I’m happy to report that I (mostly) make do without Adobeware these days (shoutout to Photopea), […]
[drop_cap]T[/drop_cap]here’s a type of writer who just writes. That ain’t me. Hand-cutting and gluing books to sell after readings. Uploading home-made PDFs to an FTP server at 2am. Spending hours in Berlin print-shops agonizing over the perfect glue-binding for a short story collection. The writing was never enough–I always needed to control the whole thing, […]
[drop_cap]I[/drop_cap]t’s no secret that minimalist tiling window managers and “full-fat” desktop environments are deeply at odds with each other, both in form and function. That’s why usually when someone wants to get started with Hyprland the recommendation from the Council of Greybeards is: start from scratch (set up a new machine), or at least use […]
[drop_cap]I[/drop_cap] never understood all the hype around Obsidian as “second brain”, and the way some people throw around the German word Zettelkasten like some obscure grand cru vintage. As if the gritty business of memorization had a dress code. (By the way, the German “Z” here is a hard “ts”, not soft “z” as in […]