I recently transitioned from an Asus X515 laptop to an Asus TUF F16 laptop, and overall the process has been better than I expected. You’ll always have the usual hiccups - installing the necessary apps and tools, configuring everything - but there haven’t been any big issues so far.

Here’s a few notes about my on-going journey with social networks.

Here’s a tweak I made to my Hugo workflow to default the draft setting to false, instead of the default of true.

So, currently my tech setup looks like this:

For all the usual reasons, I decided I needed a new laptop to handle my day-to-day needs.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself. Austin O'Malley

Here’s an easy way to manage updates of containers using Dockpeek and Portainer:

From Futility Closet

From time to time, it’s necessary to access a computer remotely. Over the years, TeamViewer was the tool of choice, but it has fallen into a bloated annoyance recently, so for many moons now I’ve been using Rustdesk - a FOSS toolset that works ideally for my use cases.

My daily-driver is an Asus X515 laptop running Windows 11. I picked this up a few years back when it was on sale at a good price, knowing it was a little underpowered for my long-term needs.