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VPS Showdown - November 2021 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Even though the year is drawing to a close, these showdowns continue. Nothing very exciting this month other than it seems Linode took their firewall offering out of beta and Vultr did the same with their Kubernetes offering. DigitalOcean continues [...]
Is today Halloween?
Regardless of when you read this post, there is less than a third of a percent change that today is actually Halloween. For those that legitimately unsure if today is Halloween or not, Halloween falls on the same day every [...]
How to install Node.js 17.x on Ubuntu LTS
As All Hallows Eve approaches, we are greeted with a brand new "current" release of Node.js, version 17. For those out there are aren't aware of how Node.js releases work, even numbered releases eventually get promoted to long-term support (LTS) [...]
Spotify stuck in fullscreen
I'm not sure why it happens, but from time to time I'll start up Spotify (in GNOME) and it will not only be in fullscreen mode, but there's no apparent way to exit out. Even though the cause will probably [...]
Free up disk space on Arch Linux by clearing your pacman cache
Generally speaking, I tend to run Linux with a single partition. But, with my work laptop, I [for some unknown reason] had opted to run with a dual partition setup, for root / and home /home. Not the most earth [...]
VPS Showdown - October 2021 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Q4 is upon us! I've been busy moving recently, so I've admittedly not been as on top of the VPS news (or my Twitter account) in the last few weeks. That being said, it looks like Lightsail is not offering [...]
Customer-owned and managed "COAM" modems with Spectrum
Having moved recently, I had to not only needed to move my Internet service (through Spectrum) to the new address, as well as set up a new modem since it seemed like it was time for an upgrade. Seeing as [...]
Best way to pin TypeScript as a dependency
While I'm a pretty big fan of TypeScript, there's some stuff that drives me up a wall. One of those things recently came to light during the release of TypeScript 4.4 on a Friday afternoon. So it was nearing both [...]
[FIXED] Repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable'
Even though I haven't upgraded from Debian 10 "Buster" to Debian 11 "Bullseye", I've already been bitten by a bug. The bug showed up in one of my local Docker containers that is running Debian 10. Upon starting the container [...]
VPS Showdown - September 2021 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
September, the last month of summer (in the northern hemisphere at least) but not the end of comparing a few VPS providers. Didn't see a lot happening this month side from Vultr starting a beta period for their Kubernetes offering [...]