These are some of my favorite blogs to write. I bought a thing, and I have no idea how it works. I don’t get to write many of these, because I rarely jump directly into the deep end of the...
Read the post →I don’t know if I qualify as an early adopter of Tailscale. My first blog post about it was in September of 2020, and that post said I had Tailscale installed on a few machines for months before I really...
Read the post →I have been using Windows on my 2-in-1 laptop for a little over a month so far. My hope was to be able to skip installing Linux on this machine. I figured I’d be able to mostly treat this thing...
Read the post →I bought an Asus Vivobook Flip 14 2-in-1 laptop last month. It isn’t a speed demon, but with an 8-core Ryzen 7 5700u, 16 GB of RAM, and an NVMe that can push several gigabytes per second, it is definitely...
Read the post →When I ordered my Asus Vivobook 2-in-1, I immediately began to scour my voluminous Steam library looking for touch-friendly games. I was initially disappointed, and in some ways I still am. Many of the games are just simple mobile games...
Read the post →I’ve been running and living with my lvmcache experiment on my desktop for more than a month now. Everything is working out about as well as I had hoped, and that means they’re doing even better than I truly expected....
Read the post →Hello everyone! My name is Pat, and I have been using Linux since 1995. The last Windows machine I had at home was a Cyrix P200 that dual booted Windows 95 and Slackware Linux. Before that I spent many years...
Read the post →I don’t know how exciting this is. The Asus Vivobook Flip 14 is not a bleeding-edge piece of hardware. It is definitely not one of the nicest 2-in-1 ultrabooks, but the price was just too good for me to pass...
Read the post →The answer you should take from me is that I don’t really know yet. At least, I don’t know just how well it is working because lvmcache is quite difficult to benchmark. The truth is that I’m not all that...
Read the post →I’m not even sure where to begin. The problem I encountered this week has been brewing for years. My desktop is running Ubuntu 18.04. That’s a pretty old release now, and it has finally started getting more difficult to install...
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