I’ve been using an iPhone 11 for 4 years now and it has been serving me well. Through hardships and hard falls, broken hearts and broken screens, it has surprisingly survived, in a great condition no less. This is great, but throughout those experiences I have also felt the rough edges and ugly parts of being an iPhone user, and iPhones may not be for me. Stuck in the Apple Ecosystem When you use a device from apple, you’re expected to use all of them. If you have an iPhone, it starts bluetooth every time you turn it on, because it expects you to use AirPods. When you use Photos, it expects you to connect with iCloud. If you send Live Photos, you either see a static photo or a video. This is a great thing if your life revolves around apple devices, but not so great if you use a mix of devices like me. Syncing my phone data with my Linux computer is always a pain. ...

My hottest take yet: chatgpt won’t change much about school. It’s been almost a year since ChatGPT launched and chatbots in general blossomed into this huge ecosystem. During that time it has been used for both good things, and not so good things; I say with personal experience in mind. In education in particular it’s been quite a ride. As a student myself, I’ve been through lots of changes that, at first seemed like revolutions that turned into a minor footnote. ...

Since the dawn of time, I have been trying to convince my peers to use linux. But it’s been a fruitless endeavor for a variety of reasons. So now, I’ll convince the people of the internet instead! In this blog series I’ll explain just the basics of using linux as a desktop OS, and show some of the customizations I did to it. Before the basics I won’t talk about what Linux is or what an OS is, because you can search those on the internet or chatGPT. This will be more of an opinion post and general overview for those going in. ...

I’ve been hosting my own software for a while. It’s a simple setup with only 2 machines: a raspberry pi for dns caching/blocking actual server for hosting applications. The raspberry pi runs Pi-hole, and the server runs True nas scale. In this post I’ll be giving an overview of hosting your own applications at home and providing some resources. 1. Beginning What is self hosting Simply put, it’s when you host your own services. This might be at home on a dedicated computer or ...

Ever since I’ve started studying japanese, I’ve seen hundreds of websites on studying japanese, but I’ve yet to see one outline the whole process. This post outlines what workflow you should use and couple resources to show you the way. I suggest reading through it first before attempting anything. Kana: The Beginning The hardest part of just about everything is the beginning, and once you get it out of the way, you slip into a sort of a routine. ...