I’ve been trying to get Hoarder, now called Karakeep, up and running on my Raspberry Pi for months. Every few months, I would go in and try to get ChatGPT or Gemini to code the correct YAML file for Docker. I couldn’t get it to work, and no one else seemed to be able to get it to work either. Finally, after much effort, I got it working two days ago, and it’s been running...
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...
ADD to the MAX
Have a bajillion things I want to write about but cant ever seem to do it when I sit down at the pc. Welp.
5 New Tools I have used in the past week to speed up my Workflow
Workspace in Power Toys PowerToys Workspaces utility for Windows | Microsoft LearnWinaero Tweaker to remove drive letters Winaero Tweaker Listary Listary – Free File Search Tool & App LauncherText Blaze Text Blaze: Snippets and Templates for ChromeAI summary on Android Sum Up AI Notification Summary – Apps on Google Play
This is day 27 of #100DaysToOffload
Test for the Fediverse
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Why I had to start Charging for “Quick Help” tech advice
Last week I did close to 18 hrs of free work for multiple people. Two weeks ago I did 20 hrs of free web design , it was for a good friend . I wasn’t upset about it until I realized based on trying to be in touch with them that I was putting significantly more effort into there project then they were. This week I got asked a question to help someone save $300 four times in a row and even my...
Fixing Dell 16 Inch laptop Trackpads
Apparently Dell 16 inch laptops have a problem that the trackpad jumps all over the place even when new. After doing some research its a hardware issue, its due to the trackpad not being correctly grounded.The fix as shown in this Youtube video works perfectly.My friend did it for me in a matter of minutes and its all fixed.
This is day 8 of #100DaysToOffload
Chromebooks- I recommend them more then ever after I bought one.
As an IT professional, I have been recommending Chromebooks and iPads to practically everyone for years. In my experience, they are the perfect choice for most people. Recently, I purchased the Lenovo Chromebook Duet as a lighter weight replacement for my Thinkpad X230 (Don’t worry I still have a spare:). I will have a continuous guide posted soon, but I just wanted to write a short article...
One Eq Method To Rule them All
You read that correctly, here is a simple, high quality, relatively easy way to equalize (“tune”) all your headphones based on specific model data.