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Welcome, my friends, to dumbphone summer.I've been a smartphone user since 2009-ish, when I traded in my flip phone for a T-Mobile G1. Since then, I've been on Android and iOS devices, before eventually landing on GrapheneOS for the better part of the last three years. GrapheneOS has proven a worthy tool in helping me pare down distractions from my modern mobile life.But still, I cannot shake the call of the dumbphone.I have almost everything turned off from my smartphone. I don't have apps…
Wow, so apparently people are interested in the writerdeck idea. Thanks everyone who shared my blog post or video over the last few days, it's meant a lot to me!There's no way I could read every comment, but I've read a bunch of them, and pulled out some of the most interesting questions to answer here in this follow-up post."Why did you spend so much time making a writerdeck instead of just writing?"I spent a grand total of 20 minutes setting up my writerdeck. It's a laptop I already owned,…
tldr: I installed console-only Debian on an old laptop (no desktop OS at all) I added some packages to make it work better for writing: network-manager for connecting to hotspots while I'm away kmscon for custom fonts and more than 16 colors in the tty tmux for a nice status bar and rudimentary screen tiling, as well as acpi and light for battery and backlight details, respectfully neovim as my editor and vim-vimwiki to give myself a personal wiki syncthing to sync and backup my work I have an…
I've used GrapheneOS for three years now as my everyday mobile OS, and I'm satisfied with it! In fact, a few days ago I put out a video about it:My most recent GrapheneOS video on PeerTube. If you prefer watching on YouTube, here's a link.Since I started using GrapheneOS, and especially since putting out this video, I've received a lot of questions- ranging from understandable concerns to misconceptions. I'd like to answer those questions in one place, so I have one link to share!Skip to your…
First off, thank you SO MUCH for all of your support over the last week as I've built up this new blog/newsletter. I'm still in the "kick the tires" phase but things are going well.My RetroTube faculty band, The Stop Bits, will be performing at the upcoming Vintage Computer Festival SoCal on February 14, 2026. If you ever wanted to hear four YouTubers (Action Retro, Taylor and Amy from The Taylor and Amy Show, and myself) perform novelty rock songs about vintage computers and putting Linux on…
Why move from WordPress to Ghost? A few reasons, but from a “how it compares with WordPress” perspective, the baked-in newsletter functionality. While it’s possible to “bolt on” email newsletters to a WordPress site, it’s far from seamless, and I wanted to give Ghost an honest try, considering the strides they’re making in open source blogging. I’ve also changed URLs to the more SEO-friendly veronicaexplains.net. Using a dot net instead of a dot sh will help with email deliverability as well.…
I've ported my WordPress site (still hosted at vkc.sh) to Ghost, a newsletter and blogging platform which I've had my eye on for a bit!Why Ghost?Well, I've heard from a lot of you who would like to receive alerts via email. Alerts about new videos, new blog posts, and that sort of thing. YouTube is notoriously bad at this, and I guess the inbox has a place. I don't fault anyone for sticking with RSS, that's what I do, but email is nice, too!Although WordPress can be set up to work in…
