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I’ve been trying to get Hoarder, now called Karakeep, up and running on my Raspberry Pi for months. Every few months, I would go in and try to get ChatGPT or Gemini to code the correct YAML file for Docker. I couldn’t get it to work, and no one else seemed to be able to get it to work either. Finally, after much effort, I got it working two days ago, and it’s been running perfectly. Here is the YAML file that you can use to install on your Raspberry Pi, specifically with CasaOS, in ord

May 17, 2025

I was under the impression this was common knowledge but apparently not. So here is how I no longer set 50 thousand calendar reminders, and still forget and get charged by my free trials.The trick is virtual credit cards. You can use any virtual credit card but I will be showing you how I do it using Privacy.com. For full transparency this is using my referral link. First, create an account at Privacy.com. You will have to go ahead and connect a funding source. Then create a new card and s

May 9, 2025

Fantastic book highly recommend to read before the watching star wars tales of the underworld

May 8, 2025
May 5, 2025

I’ve been going down a rabbit hole trying to find a good way to do transcription on Windows so I could do voice-to-text on Windows using local AI processing. Local processing is cool since it doesn’t destroy our environment ….. as much XD. After a bit of searching I found this program called Vibe and I like it. It’s not perfect but it’s pretty damn good. He provides great documentation and direct installers for a bunch of models. It provides a medium model on startup, which is great,

Apr 23, 2025

Windows 10 going out of support is gonna be a shitshow. I don’t even know how to communicate with friends and family, that are going to miss the boat that the time is now to figure out what the plan is. The tariffs almost feel like collusion from Microsoft lol. October is gonna be a shitshow no matter how much I try to get in front of it. So here is warning number one of many, Windows 10 wont be supported past October so if your on 10 reach out for your options. This is day 12 of #100

Apr 22, 2025

More and more WordPress shit seems to hit the fan, from constant founder drama, to everything being broken after updates, to everything needing to a be a plugin. Well here comes my icing on the cake that pushed me to doing a test version on Ghost. Yesterday I logged to my WordPress dashboard for this site, and I saw that Jetpack had downgraded me to a free tier, which disables both social sharing and search. The “listed reason” why was because I am now a commercial site. Apparently if

Apr 17, 2025

It’s been a while since I last posted. I’m not sure why. I have a lot of things to do. I’m working on an advertisement for my editing services, and I might update my editing website. I need to improve my Obsidian workflow and daily task management; my current system isn’t working well. I have a half-baked solution, but I lack note rollover and good organization. I’m also teaching myself video editing in DaVinci Resolve, using their training courses. Thoughts and opinions are

Apr 14, 2025

I was reading an article this morning from The New Oil about how scams are evolving and how to avoid them. Inside the article, he writes, “as another interesting note, while people ages 34 to 44 tend to get scammed more often, people ages 18 to 24 tend to lose more in scams. This counters the idea that only tech illiterate old people fall for scams or that you can be too poor to be targeted.” I would argue that the 34 to 44 range is the more interesting data point because I don’t believe th

Mar 2, 2025

This is day 8 of #100DaysToOffload

Feb 26, 2025

I don’t usually spam out blog posts when the news hits about things, but I am making an exception here as I found this super exciting. Framework, for those of you who don’t know, is the computer company that makes repairable and truly upgradeable products. Framework announced three new products. One of them is just an update to the Framework 13 mainboard which is cool in the sense that they are keeping up with their vision but not so cool otherwise. PTM 7950 as a thermal paste replacement

Feb 25, 2025

A few different things all came together to write this post today. My Kindle’s battery died. The Kindle hubbub (though not relevant). A failure to find a self-hosted Instapaper alternative. And Juan’s article—Tools That Just Work. A bit of context, my everyday workflow for reading, as mentioned in my RSS article, is as follows: “My setup for reading is FreshRSS instance on my Raspberry Pi. I read articles on my phone using Focus Reader hooked into said instance. Save articles I wa

Feb 20, 2025

Been a wild couple of weeks. Was having stability issues with my PC. Spent hours going in circles for a Notion+Obsidian alternative. Moved CRM’s for my editing business and drinking way too much coffee. PC Stability Issues I was having tons of memory issues in Battlefield 2042, and then started getting more weird BSODs in Windows itself. (Unironically Battlefield 2042 may be the best non-memory test, memory test). After some diagnostics, it was two separate things: one of my RAM

Feb 13, 2025

2026 Update :A Spotify Alternative - Though you will no longer be part of the Navy.

Jan 18, 2025

I don’t claim to be the worlds greatest technician. I claim to be competent. Unfortunately the average technician I run into is incompetent. Wondering if other IT people reading this have the same experience or if it’s specific to where I live. My friend reached out to me about his computer, he said someone told him there might be a virus. He brings me the computer, it’s a Chromebook. It’s a fucking Chromebook, a technician told him he has a virus. Did I mention it’s a fucking Chromebook.

Jan 14, 2025

For years, I have been recommending Honey. I was under the impression they were tracking your web and purchasing behavior and selling it for advertising. Which, for me, was a fine tradeoff, as most people are already being tracked, and at least now they got something useful. Well, it turns out, as you’re probably already aware, they were stealing affiliate links, as well as providing the ability for stores to pay them to hide coupons—mafioso style. (To be clear, we have no idea if they

Jan 4, 2025

Yes another 2025 post to spam your feed with . I split this and the previous post up as it was too overwhelming as one giant post. Some things I would like to post more about: * Self Hosting/My Homelab * Interacting more with the Indie/Smol web community with things like response posts or trending post types * Miyoo mini and retro handhelds in general * Tracking books I read and games I play * Video? – I may experiment more with YouTube stuff * Windows utilities and ho

Jan 1, 2025

It was ok - got much better halfway through. Pacing was a drop slow. Doesn't compare to legends and lattes but very decent overall.

Dec 31, 2024

Such a awesome cozy book . The first book I have read in many many months and I loved it!

Dec 31, 2024

It’s been a pretty good year for the blog, and I’ve implemented some stepping stones for a better year in 2025. In terms of writing I took on the 100 days to offload. I didn’t even get close, but I did end up writing way way more than last year. My writing grammar and spelling have improved significantly and they also got an extra buff from my wife proofreading everything. I still had a hard time sitting down and writing things, often being intimidated by everything I want

Dec 30, 2024