Hello Debian 11
For the last few years, I’ve been using Linux as my main OS on almost all my PCs, with some brief dalliances with FreeBSD and macOS. Recently, my ancient des...
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Returning to WhatsApp
Towards the start of this year I made the decision to leave Facebook and part of doing that meant I had to also move off of WhatsApp to Signal Messenger. A c...
Typing Joy
I recently picked up a Keychron K2 mechanical keyboard that was on special, and I’ve fallen in love with the tactile feel of typing with mechanical switches.
Thoughts on WriteFreely
I’ve always viewed myself as something of a good writer over the years. It’s up for debate whether that is objectively true, though! One of my favourite past...
Experimenting with Mastodon and Pleroma
This is just a quick post to give some brief thoughts on my experience using Mastodon and Pleroma. Hopefully, anyone who stumbles on this and is a Twitter us...
Trying Out The Self-Hosting Lifestyle
With 2021 slowly going by, I’ve tried to keep myself busy by experimenting with new things. And one of those experiments has been with the fediverse. This me...
Leaving Facebook
Recently, on Mastodon someone posted a link to a blog post by Aaron Parecki that dealt with how he left Facebook. Taken into consideration along with the rec...
On Mastodon
Back when I was living in South Africa I was an avid user of twitter. The idea of short form messages and being able to follow friends and sites without all ...
Social Starvation
One of the habits I wanted to break in 2016 was the large amount of time that I wasted using social media sites. Day after day I would keep on checking Twitt...
Do You Still Use Your Tablet?
Recently my friend Craig posted over on his blog how he’d stopped using his Android tablet after a while and was wondering whether other people have experien...
Testing the Jawbone Up24
About a year ago I took to using a Fitbit Flex in the hopes that being able to see the raw numbers behind my daily activities would spur me on to exercise mo...
Thoughts on iOS 8
With September and October each year comes the arrival of the latest and greatest phone/s from Apple, and of course that also means that there will be a new ...
Thoughts on FastMail
Recently I’ve been looking to move away from Google’s free services to solutions that, while paid, might be a better fit for me as well. There’s also the fac...
Saying Goodbye To Google
Leaving Google seems almost the hipster thing to do these days but the more research I’ve done the more it seems as though the power users and geek users out...