I’ve been going down a rabbit hole trying to find a good way to do transcription on Windows so I could do voice-to-text on Windows using local AI processing.Local processing is cool since it doesn’t destroy our environment ….. as much XD. After a bit of searching I found this program called Vibe and I like it. It’s not perfect but it’s pretty damn good. He provides...
The Impending W10 EOL Apocalypse
Windows 10 going out of support is gonna be a shitshow. I don’t even know how to communicate with friends and family, that are going to miss the boat that the time is now to figure out what the plan is. The tariffs almost feel like collusion from Microsoft lol. October is gonna be a shitshow no matter how much I try to get in front of it.So here is warning number one of many, Windows 10...
WordPress Frustations
More and more WordPress shit seems to hit the fan, from constant founder drama, to everything being broken after updates, to everything needing to a be a plugin. Well here comes my icing on the cake that pushed me to doing a test version on Ghost. Yesterday I logged to my WordPress dashboard for this site, and I saw that Jetpack had downgraded me to a free tier, which disables both social sharing...
April 14 2025
It’s been a while since I last posted. I’m not sure why. I have a lot of things to do. I’m working on an advertisement for my editing services, and I might update my editing website. I need to improve my Obsidian workflow and daily task management; my current system isn’t working well. I have a half-baked solution, but I lack note rollover and good organization. I’m...
Tech Literacy is at an All Time Low
I was reading an article this morning from The New Oil about how scams are evolving and how to avoid them. Inside the article, he writes, “as another interesting note, while people ages 34 to 44 tend to get scammed more often, people ages 18 to 24 tend to lose more in scams. This counters the idea that only tech illiterate old people fall for scams or that you can be too poor to be targeted...
Remember its Steam Next Fest so you can try out a crapton of games for free
This is day 8 of #100DaysToOffload
Framework Announcement
I don’t usually spam out blog posts when the news hits about things, but I am making an exception here as I found this super exciting. Framework, for those of you who don’t know, is the computer company that makes repairable and truly upgradeable products.Framework announced three new products. One of them is just an update to the Framework 13 mainboard which is cool in the sense that...
Tools that just work: an Ode to my 13 year old kindle
A few different things all came together to write this post today.My Kindle’s battery died. The Kindle hubbub (though not relevant). A failure to find a self-hosted Instapaper alternative. And Juan’s article—Tools That Just Work. A bit of context, my everyday workflow for reading, as mentioned in my RSS article, is as follows: “My setup for reading is FreshRSS instance on my...
WeekNotes Feb 2-14
Been a wild couple of weeks. Was having stability issues with my PC. Spent hours going in circles for a Notion+Obsidian alternative. Moved CRM’s for my editing business and drinking way too much coffee. PC Stability Issues I was having tons of memory issues in Battlefield 2042, and then started getting more weird BSODs in Windows itself. (Unironically Battlefield 2042 may be the best non...
A Spotify Alternative – Though you will no longer be part of the Navy.
Please support the artists you like by donating to them directly Following up on my wildly successful post about Netflix/Stremio. This is my current music stack and how you get rid of paid music streaming services. Please support the artists you like by donating to them directly Exporting your music First thing I did was download all my songs from my current streaming service that was Tidal at...