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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Alright so a couple of weeks ago Porky went to the mechanic to get a new clutch installed, I was expecting to have it back in less than a week however those Half-Life "Unforseen Consequenses" I mentioned I hope wouldnt happen in my last post about Porky happened. A few days later the mechanic calls, They …

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Introduction Alright, Its been a while since I posted in the Digital Nomad Series. Life happened, Work got busy, I got laid off and lost motivation to post here but job prospects have started to look up and that motivation has returned so here is the next in the Digital Nomad Series, How to setup an emergency or backup …

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As I have mentioned before I went desktopless a few years ago and switched to a desktop replacement grade laptop with a dock. I love screensavers and lock screens so two things I have on every computer in my environment is the City Art Search app from the Microsoft store and the Ariel Screensaver from github which is a …

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I was going to just update the Layoff post but Its been a while and I have made several posts since then so I figured I would just do a new post with an update. Its been 4 almost 5 months since I got laid off and man has it been a struggle, At first there were barely any job postings, then I started to see more …

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I bounce around between Windows, Linux and MacOS, I have long since had a shell script that creates a new post with a page bundle and inserts the front matter and opens the file in sublime text. I wanted to do the same on windows with powershell so I could add the script to my path and call it from anywhere, I have a …

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For most of my career I have had company laptops issued to me, a vast majority of those have been Dell, every single one has had a physical dock connector (until my last company that is, they sent me a surface book....a damn surface book, it was the biggest piece of gargbage and the dock had issues all the time) which …

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If you follow my spouse Trauma To Travel then you probably know about Porky The MINI! which we bought to build a little more credit in hopes of making our dream of Full-Time RVing a reality which it has so far done a great job of helping us build credit and explore more at the same time, that is until the Layoff Train …

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I have been using hugo for over 2 years now going on 3 now, I used ghost before but its really heavy and I wanted to ditch needing to host a webserver in favor of static site hosting which I have covered in previous posts, when I moved from ghost to hugo I used a converter to convert all my posts to markdown for a …

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