Wed Jul 10
When you get the message from pikaur: Read damn arch-wiki before borking your computer https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository (Also, don't report any issues to pikaur, if ure seeing this message) you need to check your base-devel package is installed. References:...
Inspired by my girlfriend and my brother, who are both somewhat huge geography buffs, I’ve decided to challenge myself to learn all the countries in the world. I would say I already have decent geography knowledge, but compared to them, I’m still in noob territory. The end goal is to be able to complete the...
Since I restarted this website, I have been struggling with choosing the right language. Obviously, I went for English so far, mostly because of the simple reason of wanting to get better at it. A secondary reason is that most of the resources for the tech content I write is in English anyway. And if you really want...
Challenges of free domain registration Since 2012, Freenom acted as the domain name registrar for several free top level domains including .cf, .ga, .gq, .ml, and .tk. Unfortunately, at the start of 2023, it was pretty clear that Freenom was not doing well. Freenom was sued by Meta for ignoring abuse complaints and...
Dual Booting OpenBSD and Alpine Linux on a X220 ThinkPad 2024-07-10 I’ve always found it useful to run both OpenBSD and some form of Linux variation on my personal machines. Most times, I would default to running one OS on bare metal, while the other would simply live in a VM. This works okay but I prefer my...
El hilo más necesario de todo Internet, al menos para los que vivimos en tierras calurosas, ya está en el fediverso. De este toot para abajo{.broken_link}. Solo añado una apreciación respecto a los ventiladores que echan awita. Hace un par de años, en una casa que ya era húmeda de por sí (estaba por debajo del nivel...
Between our trip to Malta, bad weather, and Euro 2024, I hadn't had a chance to visit Frankfurt for a while. But last weekend, the weather forecast looked somewhat promising, and I had no other plans, so off I went. Saturday tuned out to be rather windy with occasional rain showers, but the light was pretty good,...