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Jeff MacKinnon
I, Jeff MacKinnon, have many interests and wear many hats. I'm a generalist at a lot of things and an expert at a few. I focus a lot of my time on power systems, reducing carbon emissions, electrifying everything, cooking, taking pictures and keeping the internet open and free.
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The sunflowers and bees are just around the corner
This is the content of my super blog post.
First off, may I say this is dumb. This has been an issue for at least 4 years in the Linux community and still, to this day, the solution is to fix it manually. To start, my install uses NetworkManager which has a rudimentary GUI, and...
I have started working on a little personal project I like to call, computing like its 1999. Part of this is moving a lot of the things that I do from a browser to a local app, and when possible to a TUI/CLI interface to further reduce...
I read a post on mastodon sometime in the last couple weeks, I can't find it again but it was from someone that re-installed Linux on their main machine for the first time in 10 or more years. They said it felt like, and I'm...
I finally ran out of daily planned pages in my notebook from the last print that I did. I made the template using AutoCAD because it was the tool that I had on my computer that I knew how to use at the time. This time however, I decided...
I had a request to create a human-readable list of the OPML files that I posted earlier this week.
There are a lot of great memes that come across the internet, this is my collection. I have watermarked them mostly because I don't know how to add an exception to the Pelican-Photos plugin. When able I have included the source link...
Its January 2025 and the internet as we knew it in 2020 is again being upended. Elmo and Muskrat are both kneeling down and working to ensure that we, as society, are not able to communicate and connect. Luckily for us, this is a problem...
My slightly modified version of Old Fashioned Chocolate based on the recipe from Taste of Recipe.
These are my no-dairy rolled sugar cookie recipe. It is modified from an old Good Housekeeping Cookbook we keep on the shelf.
My version of no-dairy gingerbread men. Its based on a recipe from an old Good Housekeeping cookbook
Our favourite date square recipe.
To make sure that everyone in my extended family can enjoy the ginger molasses delicious-ness, I made a version of ginger molasses cookies without butter.
Since there are some that don't eat dairy, I wanted to give these a try with coconut oil. I think lard or shortening would work best, but we always have coconut oil in the cupboard. The recipe is basically the same as the OG Ginger...