Tag: 2024
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NAS Build
Subtext: “One More Computer Will Fix Me” The Journey The idea for building my own home network server has been building over time. For as long as I can recall, the idea of having a home based storage appliance has called out to me as being something to eventually pursue. The exact factors that brought…
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Childish as a pejorative
Being around children most of my waking hours and enjoying it, I watch how they interact with the world. The words I would use to describe this would be whimsy and wonder. This got me to thinking about how the word “childish” is often used as adults to describe something that is immature, poorly thought…
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Pixel Experiment
No Gapps, no problem? Previously, the thought had come into my head to run Android without Google apps but due to a variety of factors I opted not to. Fast forward ~8 years and now it is very viable to run Android without Gapps. Google apps are the pieces of Android that Google places in…
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Parenting and Ego Death
Recently I had a door to door salesman come to my house and when he was making small talk he said something to the effect of “wow you’re my age but you have 3 kids how is that?”. The question was interesting for me because my reality was as foreign to him, as his reality…