Introduction- Many, if not most people were shocked at recent events. The rise to power of people who would have been unthinkable a few short years ago now seems to be accelerating. It’s normal to feel overwhelmed, but giving up is not an option. […]
Category: Technology
Does Mastodon Have A Future?
On 2024-09-23 I read that another Mastodon instance is calling it quits. StrangeObject.Space will shut down at the end of the year. You can read their post at https://blog.strangeobject.space/posts/2024-09-23-shutting-down.html This follows the announcement five days before by Mozilla.Social that they would shut down by […]
I can’t log onto Vivaldi.Social. And that’s okay!
When I ran into problems logging into vivaldi.social, I was initially sad, but I learned I could get my mastodon fix even without a working account.
NextDNS – Protect Yourself Using DNS
For a little more than a month now, I’ve been using NextDNS, to see if it can provide another layer of protection against ads, trackers and malware. Here are my impressions. NextDNS replaces your default DNS provider, usually your ISP, unless you’re the kind […]
Limits are Wonderful
I recently saw a post on Mastodon asking for recommendations for an instance that allowed more characters per toot. Of course I recommended that person migrate to social.vivaldi.net with its very generous limit of 1337 characters. To my thinking, if you can’t express a […]
Installing Linux on a Chromebook
Hello! This is my first blog post here, so forgive the rough edges. I hope to edit this to polish it a bit, but wanted to get this down. I bought a Chromebook back in 2014, and was pretty happy with it. I do […]