Pondering Leaving Nextcloud

I’ve been using Nextcloud since its first release in 2016. It has been fun to watch it grow and improve over all these years. I sometimes hear people complain about how difficult it is to maintain, or it breaking and such. However for me, 8 years later, it has been incredible and put up with a lot from me. I started using Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi 2 with a 32GB flash drive for storage, a Raspbian 8(?...

April 10, 2024 · 6 min

Pork Top Loin and Mushrooms

I’ve only written tech stuff here, but I wanted to share a good recipe that I threw together for dinner tonight. It’s a pork top loin chop from Costco with buttery garlic mushrooms, and a white wine pan sauce. I made 2 loins for my wife and myself. Ingredients This is only an approximation, I throw stuff together on the fly. The meat: 2 pork loins Salt and pepper...

April 3, 2024 · 3 min

Trying SmartOS

Today, I am going to try something very different. I am going to give TRITON SmartOS a shot. A number of years back, I tried OmniOS and loved it. But I wasn’t ready to move to it or anything. After trying out some of the Solaris zone and SMF stuff, I was hooked. It was really cool tooling to use and felt thought out. Now again, I am going to try again, but with SmartOS....

March 25, 2024 · 4 min

Hebrew and Greek With asciidoctor-pdf

I was tasked with trying to get both Hebrew and Greek to be readable with Asciidoc, primarily for epub and PDF, but I also wanted to try with HTML too. Both HTML and epub worked great, but I had troubles with getting it to work with PDFs. Installation I’m on OpenBSD, but there are similar steps. In fact, I also did this on Linux and the steps were pretty similar....

March 13, 2024 · 2 min

i3 Fix Firefox Alerts

Somewhere around Firefox 120/121 I noticed my Firefox notifications were getting messed up. At first I didn’t see them, then I realized they were transparent and would freeze the part of the screen where the notification would appear until it eventually faded away. But It was hard to know when that was, so I would have to reload i3 constantly when I needed to access that part of the screen since I didn’t have any sort of x button to close out....

February 26, 2024 · 1 min