One of my favorite tech YouTubers passed away…
Novaspirit Tech Novaspirit GitHub
RIParadise Don. I know you’re still hacking till it hertz in the nerdcave in the sky. Thank you for personally answering my questions over the years and helping me with my self hosting and coding journey.
…also, f🤬ck cancer.
That playbook being published is the reason I’m not freaking out. Quit pretending like you don’t know what’s coming next and prepare yourself.
We are seeing Project 2025 unfold in real-time.
(The dystopian humor in having AI summarize and keep track of this all II at lost on me either. 🤖)
Archiving a bunch of stuff on the NAS and came across the instructions for one of my many “smartphones-when-they-were-nerd-bricks” I used to lug around.


…and that’s the truth.
It’s #caturday once again y’all

DAPOTUS: “we still tariffing Canada & Mexico tomorrow” for no good reason.
Stonks:
1400 something more days of this 🐄 💩 😩
Not Chinese at all, but with it being CNY and all… I want some mooncake so much right now. LOL
Q: Did Starrwulfe watch the inauguration or any of the outlandish foolishness coming from it?
A: No, he chose not to give it any of his energy or time. We don’t watch bad sequels in my tribe. Also, this:
Finally hacking my EOL QNAP NAS…
- backed up all the things to temp drive array
- almost NixOS’d the bare metal… Almost.
- decided to stick to mission and play with Proxmox.
- I think I can have a NixOS VM in there… 🙏🏾
I swear what Dylan has written here is on the minds of pretty much every expat in Japan.
Read: 📰 Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
Can’t break New Year’s resolutions if you forgot to make ‘em in the first place! 😉 👆🏾
Wouldn’t be a winter storm in Atlanta if the power didn’t damn go out. Good thing I gassed up the RV beforehand. Time for some driveway camping.
I lived in Los Angeles as a teenager through the 92 LA riots, Northridge earthquake and different flooding events from heavy rains. I can’t imagine a whole entire neighborhoods where 95% of every structure is burnt down and no war was involved. This is the climate crisis I’ve been telling you about.


Automation and distance working… the laboratory is Japan, believe me when I say I have seen the future.
Japan convenience store hires remote worker in Sweden for night shift - Nikkei Asia
🎍明けましておめでとうございます🌅 今年もよろしくお願いします🙇🏾

End of the year family RV trip down to Tallahassee to see some friends from Japan we haven’t seen since we moved back Stateside…

The Christmas 2024 gifts from my wife and kids. 🎄 💁♀️👧🧒👧

Winter shot of the Enoden crossing out of Kamakura station in Kanagawa, Japan back on 3 February 2012.
#tokyotrainnerd #trainporn #japan #shonan
“America is like a smoke & vape shop with all the bright ass LED lit bongs, some incense, and artisanal kettle fried potato chips for sale. Interesting at first but you wonder how that place is still in business”
— me discussing how we probably look to other countries with my mom just now.