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Expanding upon last month, this month’s VPS Showdown features another, more expensive plan, at the ~$40 mark (Vultr being the outlier as their High Frequency plans are 20% more expensive, but seemingly worth it from the sheer metrics perspective). Notable…
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How to fix ugly Chrome window borders on Linux
So I’m back to dabbling with Google Chrome as my main browser, backpedaling somewhat on last year’s [yet another] switch to Firefox. Technically I’m running Chromium, the less Googley version of Chrome on Linux, and Google Chrome stable on Android…
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Fixing distortion and red lines when moving items in Diablo III on a MacBook Pro
For season 19 of Diablo III, the wife and I decided that we were not only going to play the season, but actually set out to complete all of the objectives for the season. As we’re pretty much filthy casuals…
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Padding strings and numbers with JavaScript
Programming languages can change pretty regularly, and I try to carve out some time periodically to catch up on the latest and greatest the languages I love have to offer. With that, recently I was poking around on JavaScript’s string…
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VPS Showdown – January 2020 – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Brand new year with a brand new VPS Showdown, and I know what you’re thinking, “Why have you not included my favorite provider into your comparisons yet”? Big reason has to do with time, while these posts have become more…
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The end of a decade
Usually for the last post of the year I do a bit of a retrospective / lessons learned kind of post. Not going to bore you with that this year. Instead, I want to talk a bit about the concept…
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Installing pacman breaks dependency replaced by yay
Even though I’ve been using Arch Linux for a few years now, from time to time, I do run into small issues that are unique to Arch. One such issue happened when I was trying to upgrade my system, only…
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Another two weeks with Firefox
A few years back, I went all in on Firefox and Duck Duck Go for a few weeks, only to wind back up on Chromium. Duck Duck Go has been my default search engine since then, but Firefox ended up…
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How to bypass the SSH host key check
If you’ve ever connected to a new server via SSH, you were probably greeted with a message about how the authenticity of the host couldn’t be established. The message and prompt looks something like this: The authenticity of host ‘1.2.3.4…
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VPS Showdown – December 2019 – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Figured for my final VPS Showdown of 2019, to go back to where it all began with a $10 Showdown post. Since last month, Linode has released their own flavor of “Object Storage” so I thought it would be good…