Linux Solus on BTRFS + RAID 0 Warning! This is not a recommended setup and is not supported by Solus. It requires tweaking several things outside of the regular bounds of the OS and the Solus developers.
Linux Something A Little Different So, in a fit of ill-advised curiosity, I upgraded my main desktop Kubuntu 18.04 install to the 20.04 developmental daily. This did not go well. The command do-release-upgrade
New Little Device For Christmas this year, I thought I would get a Raspberry Pi [https://raspberrypi.org] (a very small computer on one board) and use it to make my parents' life a bit easier. Combining my desire to tinker with a novel tech thingy
Pretension The body is 70% water so jump in Free dive to the pieces of past you Find them where you scattered them hid them long ago currents tumble them, wear their edges your hand will catch the jagged points Not all the pieces will
In between errands The coffee shop is a shelter this morning. Hail comes down as small bits of sticky foam. A velvet cake to bite into with a shovel, moist and heavy. The scrape of shovel on sidewalk when you eat it fresh(It comes away clean
Day 7 - Home I am home. I am tired and sunburnt to within an inch of being a barbequed pig permanently. Write more tomorrow.
Day 6 - Rodd Point I'm lucky enough to have a little time in nostalgic places in Australia before I leave. One of those places is a small park near where my aunt and uncle live, Rodd Point Park. It is unremarkable in Sydney, a small finger
Day 5 - Pause To burst into life To walk into death To take in between all in one breath Step follows step to set trails of same fates Instead live in full Don't be an ingrate.
Memory Day 4 - Nana Content Warning: discussion of death Steady red LED of the phone charging. Blinking red LED of the battery pack charging. Large backpack at the foot of the bed, packed. Small
#XD30 - Three - Ramblings I guess I could write something here that might sound meaningful or deep or like a story even, but I'm too damn tired and I need to write
Poetry #XD30 - Two - Poems No I Can't Go to Sleep I don't have time to sleep Seconds click away noiselessly Sky lightens My eyelids droop The post stubbornly unwritten despite
Melbz #XD30 - One - Some Updates Hey y'all. So, number one, I say y'all a lot more now that I'm not in the States. It's an easy way to group people without any association of gender but it's also probably
Stream of Consciousness So I want to write stuff I guess I know that it's not all that interesting to read something that no=one has thought about and just flows or is vomited out of someone. I really feel like writing is too dificult
Some Small Euro 2016 Analysis I've watched most of the matches in the Euro 2016 mens' soccer tournament these past two weeks, and the past couple days I've seen every match of the knockout rounds. And, given that I love to hear the sound
A New Poem So, I know I've been away from the Twin Cities for a long time now, and I don't feel like I have a lot to show for it. I've spent a fair amount of money, I recently broke
Politics Thoughts from an Armchair Critic I haven't posted anything for about 6 months, so I figured I'd start again with something that I don't feel anxious about not researching. Here are some uninformed opinions thoughts I have had recently about the United States
Football Being an Unremarkable Age So, a few months ago I turned 24. 24 is not particularly culturally remarkable, as far as this country is concerned. And I don't mind that. It's nice to have some attention and hoopla surround a 16th, 18th, and 21st
Football A Thrashing Forgotten When I was 11 and 12 I played on a summer soccer team, the Saint Paul Blackhawks, in the level Classic 2 (In a heirarchy of Premier, Classic 1, Classic 2, and Classic 3), or C2. As a team in the Twin Cities, the
Music Processing... I recieved a new keyboard for Christmas, and I've been feeling a lot of feels recently, so I figured I should write some things down on, uh, digital paper. This is a mish-mash of some thoughts I've been having. Considering
Fedora Fedora 21, Rhythmbox, and Importing MP3s So, I recently installed Fedora on my shiny new Samsung 840 EVO SSD, and have set it up somewhat how I like. However, I found that the default music player in Gnome, Rhythmbox, would not import .mp3 and .m4a files. If you, like me,
Poetry Liquid Crystals Displaying Feelings Don't tell me it's done I know it. Don't tell me it's shut I know it. I live in circles running up and down around the screen Picking through pixels for the burn-in where the feeling&
