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  • Trimming spending on digital subscriptions using privacy-friendly DNS

    Why pay for something if you don’t need to? When I subscribed to YouTube Music, it was because I needed a music subscription service. I’d been using Spotify for a few years, but I wanted to change things up a bit, and it seemed like a pretty good deal to be able to get the…

  • There is no sin greater than desire…

    There is no sin greater than desire. There is no misfortune greater than discontent. There is no calamity greater than greed. Tao Te Ching

  • Board of Elections training

    Almost a year ago, on October 1st, 2020, I submitted an application to work for the Board of Elections in New York City. I figured it would be interesting to actually work on an election day. Plus, I’d heard it was pretty good money. I cut it a little too close to work on the…

  • One of my favorite religious symbols – the Shiva Nataraja

    A symbol of creation and destruction and the struggle to overcome ego through #spiritual #contemplation, the Shiva Nataraja, or Dancing Shiva is one of my favorite religious symbols. This explanation of the symbol by Aldous Huxley isn’t very thorough, but it’s clear and easy to understand. I think what I appreciate so much about it…

  • Getting Fallout 76 to work on Kubuntu 21.04

    Ok. I managed to get #Fallout76 working on Kubuntu 21.04. My laptop has an Nvidia GTX 970M, so the performance was abysmal, but at least I know it can be done. I had to install Glorious Eggroll Proton 6-16-GE-1, Nvidia driver 418.211.00, and then rename some files. I had some issues getting Kubuntu to recognize…

  • Site recently migrated to new host

    Hi. This site was recently migrated from DreamHost to WordPress.com. It looks like the migration lost some images, so those will have to be re-added manually. Update: The images should be fixed. Next, I had an “embed anything” plugin while using self-hosted WordPress that I’d used regularly in my recent posts, so I need to…

  • If you accidentally deleted your Fallout76 account by unlinking…

    Then there’s a really simple way to fix it. Two weeks ago, I realized that I had two Bethesda accounts. My Steam account was linked to one and my Xbox account was linked to another. I needed to consolidate them so that I could switch from playing Fallout 76 on Xbox for PC to Steam.…

  • I finally found out why my WordPress is so slow on DreamHost

    I’ve had DreamHost Shared hosting for about 9-10 years. For the first 5-6 years, everything was great, but then my site started to slow down. After years of trying different things, I think I’ve finally figured out what the issue was, and it doesn’t really make any sense to me, but it works, so I’m…

  • Compassionate use of force

    “You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them – for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.” Dalai Lama XIV

  • Dune sequel books contain really complex themes and ideas

    I’m surprised by how well the story has held up, considering that it was written in the 70s. I need to reread the part about the transformation in the desert, because I’m not sure how or if that really fit into the story’s world. It felt more like magic than science or evolution. The author…