I work from home full time, and for most of that time I’ve used my own personal computer for doing my work – after all, I built it specifically to meet my needs as a developer, with exactly the right combination of processing power, performance, and disk space that I knew I was going to… Continue reading The Switching Saga
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Problems remain with Mastodon
Yes, I’m talking about Mastodon again. After the last installment of my Mastodon Saga – where I found that it wasn’t just a database issue that erased my account, but rather a RAID failure – I held out hope that my account and prior posts (and most importantly, follower lists) could be restored. Unfortunately, that… Continue reading Problems remain with Mastodon
Giving Mastodon Another Try
Despite my recent post complaining about Mastodon, I do like the idea of it and I want it to succeed… so I decided to give it another try. The hardest part, as always, is finding a server/instance – my interests are somewhat varied, so I didn’t want to join a server focused on just one… Continue reading Giving Mastodon Another Try
Thoughts Amid 2020
Well, here we are, midway through 2020 – a year I did not expect to be writing about, but 2020 has turned out to be the year that keeps on giving – but in a bad way. I used to think the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind – that it would erase barriers… Continue reading Thoughts Amid 2020