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cyberjunkie
Just a hobbyist who likes writing, and reading blogs by other geeks.
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Things have been happening faster than I can blog about them. The most interesting event has been my visit to my ancestral hometown, Mangalore in India. I was there for a cousin’s son’s wedding and a holy communion party. Many of my...
I have bad handwriting. I used fountain pens in school till ball-point pens and then gel pens replaced them. I wasn’t fascinated by fountain pens then, as much as I was about gel pens when they first arrived. Over the past 8 years or so,...
These are the phones I remember owning since 2000. Nokia 3210 Sony Ericsson K300i Nokia E63 Dopod D600 Motorola Milestone Samsung Galaxy Nexus Nexus 5 Apple iPhone SE OnePlus 5 OnePlus 7 Pro Motorola Edge 40 Neo I’m about to buy a new...
My folks live in an apartment complex. We have a security guard, and here in India, they’re called the “watchman”. Their days are uneventful. They ensure shady characters don’t wander into the apartment compound, they ensure the lights...
I Think I’m Paranoid was one of the coolest tracks from Garbage when I first heard them in the 90s. Shirley Manson was hot, bold and in your face in that music video. The song also had one of the freshest, crude yet appealing sounding...
Things have been a bit busy yet again, and I’m just about recovering from a mild case of flu. It hasn’t been as bad as the truly bad ones I’ve had growing up. We flew to Kochi over the long weekend. It was a good excuse to fly via the...
KDE Plasma 6.6 was released yesterday, and since I’m an Arch Linux user (btw), I already have it installed. I use sway on the desktop, primarily because it handles multi-monitor setups so well, and KDE Plasma does not. One of the major...
After the long rant about the mechanical keyboard market, I bought the best mechanical keyboard that meets nearly all of my requirements - the Royal Kludge R87 Pro. 87% - Compact enough but not cramped No wireless, no batteries,...
It’s been busy since the new year. We had a 3-day weekend and I got some time to myself to mess around with new things. I’m not even a half-decent guitar player. When I’m alone, and I have a drink, I loosen up just a bit and I can make...
I’ve owned mechanical keyboards since the early 90s. It was a rebranded variant of the Model M. I’m no stranger to mechanical keyboards so I know why they resonate with so many people. The TVSE Gold here in India later became the...
I took a few days off around the past weekends and turned them into four and five-day weekends. Things were pretty uneventful, but I wasn’t too productive - just being lazy, having a drink or two every other evening, binging on shows and...
Not sure if it’s the GTK versions or Wayland or Hexchat has been left unmaintained for so long, but it’s pretty slow when I switch buffers from ZNC. I happened to look for alternate GUI IRC clients (I use weechat on the headless server...
Among the list of cool tools I discovered and tried out lately on my Linux boxes are autofs and chezmoi. autofs solves the problems of network shares that are unavailable when your machine boots. The service automatically mounts network...
I have been fascinated with planes, civil aviation in particular for as long as I can remember. I faintly remember my father’s newspaper cutouts of aircraft like the Airbus 300, stuck on our apartment door like a collage when I was 4 or...
There are some products that I just don’t need to be wireless or smart. I think that is true for a lot of people, but surprisingly neither customer nor manufacturers seem to get it. My (conspiracy) theory is that they are manufacturing...