Category: Featured
Why is there no official Vivaldi Flatpak?
Yes there is a Vivaldi Flatpak on Flathub. I (a Vivaldi employee) maintain it. It is up to date, it generally works. It is not official and it is also the only one of my packages that I do not use myself outside of…
By ruario
Life Hacks for Writers
For quite some time I have been meditating on what constitutes the ideal life for a writer/poet who wishes to polish his/her skills to the optimum. As we are all well aware, the modern life does not value anything that…
De-Plasticing, one step at a time
A while ago I decided that the next major project for the household, would be the limitation of excess plastic packaging, and switching to supporting as many smaller, specialist businesses as we can. Started out with a…
By kchisholm
We don’t need browser wars
I like Vivaldi, and I like Firefox too... Yeah, here we go again. I use both, depending on what I’m doing, and I don't see any contradiction in that.…
By nexl4
UCEPROTECT and Microsoft
Today, my personal mail server is being blocked by Microsoft. This appears to be because the company known as UCEPROTECT has designated the entire network block where my servers live as "abusive".…
By Thomas Pike
I think I found the internet I missed for decades
I like to say that I survived Y2K. I was a kid at the time, so I didn't really understand what was supposed to happen when the year changed. I just knew that it was a big deal. It was on TV, in newspapers, at school,…
By nexl4
The Miracle of Accumulation: A Lesson from Tissue Paper
In everyday life, in study, and in sport—whether one is a seasoned professional or only just beginning—there are no shortcuts. There is no single magical method that guarantees…
Side Step...Record me, not tell me and post it to the Internet? I foresee a shovel in your future
Picture in your mind: You are walking down the street. The place matters not, your hometown, on vacation, just anywhere. A random person stops you and starts talking to you. The conversation may be mundane. The…
By jwlasanich
On American Literature
American Literature is enthralling. No matter how much steeped I may be in British Literature, I never tire of going back to my old school books and re-reading gems of American Literature. My choice of writers tends to…
Side Step...Proving I Am Semi-Mental Old Fool
For those of you who know me well, you already know I am sentimental, or as I call it, semi-mental. A failing of mine one could call it. I tend to hold onto things and get extremely sad when cats, things, places and…
By jwlasanich
Getting Slapped for Realizing Murphy's Law
"If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those results in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way."as quoted in Wikipedia. …
By evertwoo
Why do we need to expose ourselves ?
FaceBook, Instagram, TikTok, influencers, reality TV. What is it, in this time of age that urges us to expose our lives, publically?…
By Per Jakobsen
