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As you may already be aware, my blog is primarily a chronicle of the issues I’ve faced and how I’ve went about solving them. Switching back to Arch Linux from Debian recently, and left me with no shortage of new…
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The joys of distro hopping
Whelp, it was a good run with Debian (Stable) this year, but the time finally came to switch back over to Arch Linux. A week in, and a backlog of new blog posts to write later, I think I finally…
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Am I AI?
As a matter of form, this blog is a collection of my actual writing. The blog started as a way to improve my writing capabilities by actually taking the time to, you know, write. While I may talk about artificial…
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How to disable the X-Mailer header with PHPMailer
Sometimes things aren’t quite as you’d expect them to be. One such case is when you try to disable the X-Mailer header with the PHPMailer library. The library itself is pretty straight forward, you instantiate the class, and then you…
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JDownloader error: You added an archive that has several parts
Ran into an interesting problem recently while downloading some stuff off of Archive.org. The problem was a bit of a misnomer, but it took some head scratching for a bit to understand the issue. While using JDownloader, which is a…
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How to apply security updates on Amazon Linux 2 AMI
Security updates are important and should be applied regularly, even automated if that’s an option (it is on Debian, as part of unattended upgrades). Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers their own Linux distribution, that is, and I quote “largely binary…
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How to delete Docker images
Still plagued by my undersized root / partition, I’ve had to learn a thing or two about freeing up disk space. Recently, after a string of adventures with containers, I came to realize that Docker stores it’s images in the…
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Anbernic RG35XX vs. RG353M
As I’ve recently procured yet another retro gaming handheld, I felt the need to give a quick comparison of two similar offerings that I own. Please keep in mind that this isn’t meant to be an exhaustive post, comparing sizes…
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Are travel routers worth it?
As part of my iterative approach to most things, with every trip I take, I try to improve something. Over the years I’ve went from a cramped duffel bag to a higher end backpack meant for travel. I’ve slowly moved…
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Steamworks initialisation failed running V Rising on Steam Deck
Before the wife and I jumped into Diablo IV, which runs really well on the ol’ Steam Deck, we were playing V Rising. V Rising is a great little multiplayer survival game with a vampire theme that came to us…