Alright so with the Original Slate coming up on End of Life, and since I had long since replaced it with a Slate AX, I was looking for neat uses I could repurpose the hardware into as its still a really decent device! While I was hunting Github I came across This Repository by xchwarze with ported firmwares of …

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This is gonna be a cool post, As you know this site is generated with the Hugo Static Site Generator and the static site is hosted on Netlify for free, If you head over to my Contact Page there is a Contact Form at the bottom which if you ready my Netlify VS Cloudflare Pages Post then you will know is a big reason why …

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I wrote another post about how I switched from Sublime text 3 to VS Code, well I am still using it and its still awesome! I found a really cool docker that allows you to run the VS Code in a browser, now extentions are limited and it took some tinkering to grt it as clost to my desktop setup, its not exactly the same …

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So as you know this site is powered by Hugo, Actually all of my sites and my spouses site TraumaToTravel are Hugo sites, I fell in love with it and converted anything that wasnt Hugo already that could work in Hugo over. I wont go in depth into Hugo on this post as this is more of a why I still choose Hugo Post rather …

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Text Editors, There are so many options depening on OS, I personally have used Sublime Text across Operating Systems for well over a decade, I have written most of these posts (only exeption is when I have written a post here and there in the terminal with something like nano or vi) in Sublime Text, I even have a …

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Do you guys have VoIP at home? are you using a PBX or Direct-Connection to a SIP trunk like Call-Centric? I have been a customer of Call-Centric for a long while, even switched my dad over from Vonage (hes paying a quarter of the price for the same type of plan). For my dad I didnt want to deal with setting up a PBX so …

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Intro So I love Smartcards! I dont know why but I love the idea of physical passwordless authentication, I am also an early adopter of the Yubikey, My env. is configured for both Smartcard and FIDO2 Auth with the yubikeys able to auth either Smartcard Cert or FIDO2 (I have yet to find a Dual-Interface Smartcard that …

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So in the spirit of adding forums I also decided to add a live chat feature, in the bottom right hand corner theres a teal chat bubble that will launch a live chat in the page, use it as yet another means of getting ahold of me haha. As always So long and Thanks for all the Fish!

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Took me long enough to setup forums but firstly I didnt want to have to host a full lamp stack just for forums when I host a static site and second I wasnt sure what software I wanted to use. I finally landed on Flarum, its lightweight and can be run via docker which I am doing, on an oracle cloud instance for free …

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AirBNB has changed the way we look for accomdations, Sometimes its cheaper, Sometimes its more expensive, Sometimes you pay more in fees than you do for the accomdation but one thing is for sure, it depends on where you are! I dont always use airbnb especially when I am in the states but when I am oversees its general …

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