The documentation for Bear blog (that this blog is published on), can be a bit on the technical side. Here’s a non-technical article so you can set your blog up, how you want to. There’s been a couple of things that I wanted to change on my blog, once I’d chosen my theme. buymeacoffee.com If you look at my footer, you’ll see a link to my ‘buy me a coffee’ page, I really don’t expect a lot (if anything), but I am curious to see if anyone will! You will obviously first need to sign up to either ‘buy me a coffee ‘or perhaps www.ko-fi.com, if that’s your preference. ...

Kagi.com is a paid-for search engine, that’s around 2 years old. I’ve been using it for about 4 months now, and I’m super impressed with the results. I’ve not been happy with Google search results for quite some time now. They’re having to walk a thin line, in my opinion, between keeping their customers happy - whilst still having a very mystical SEO process - and generating reasonable search results for those who are using google search. I was also not very happy with myself being the product of google search - as they say; if it’s free, you are the product. I don’t want adverts being flung at me every search that I do - I simply want an answer to my question. So, I had a look around to see what else I could use. ...

My home ‘IT-strategy’ So I have a bunch of stuff at home using Linux, and it covers most types of things. Let’s look at each one, and see what I use my home IT equipment for. Laptop This is my daily driver running fedora cosmic spin. It’s an 11th-gen ThinkPad x1 carbon with an Intel i7 13th gen CPU, 16 GB RAM, 500GB nvme drive, and a great 2K OLED screen. It’s where i create my blog posts, manage everything on my network, surf the internet, and use social media etc. As my daily driver - it’s my go to for well, pretty much anything. ...