NextDock 2 is a cool project being crowdfunded right now. Basically it is a laptop with no onboard CPU, memory, or disk but it can be connected to any device that offers HDMI out to be used as a monitor (Android Phone, Raspberry Pi, Chromecast, etc.). If you’ve ever wanted a portable monitor with built…

I have to say that I am seriously impressed with the F-Droid Repomaker utility. It’s well-designed and easy to use.

I recently found out about “Participatory budgeting” which is a democratic way of creating a national budget. Basically, each year when you pay your tax bill you decide how much money you personally will allocate to various government programs. For example, if you pay $100 in taxes you could choose to spend $15 on Military,…

I wonder if it would be too harsh to require users to not use passwords seen on the Have I Been Pwned password database. I’m sure it would be pretty effective at making people add a few extra numbers to the end of their password.

Well today was my first time trying the Uber PWA instead of the full Android app. The map was a little laggy and only updated about one every 30 second, but other than that I found it a perfectly acceptable experience. For now, I think I’m going to continue using it.

I’ve decided to switch over to FastMail since GSuite is raising their prices next month. Their SMTP migration tool worked well for moving all of my emails, and I was able to import my Google Calendars/Contacts. Everything is set up and seems to be working with my email client (Mailspring) and Kontact for CalDav/CardDav. I…

I’ve been trying to get progressive web apps to work on my phone. Have got to say Chrome is way ahead of Firefox in this department. The Firefox PWA implementation is just full of bugs. For example, I’m trying to use the Google Maps PWA but it won’t load unless I also open the full…

I’ve decided that I’m going to switch from Grammarly to LanguageTool as my full-time grammar checker. Not only is LanguageTool open source, but it supports more of the software I use like LibreOffice and Firefox.

The Southwest Airlines boarding system is very strange. They line you up so that every passenger is in order according to a number on your boarding pass. Then you board the plane and pick whatever seat you want. Personally, I’m not sure how I feel about it. I think maybe it’s more comforting to just…

Gotta say I’ve been upgrading all of my Syncthing installs to v1.1.0 and it’s a big improvement. Syncing happens way faster now.