Blog Questions Challenge
I’m making it a habit copying Kev.
Kev recently posted a Blog Questions Challenge that seemed like a fun idea. So, I thought I’d run with it for the first post of 2025.
My Default Apps at the End of 2024
Kev did his annual My Default Apps at the End of 2024, so I thought I’d steal his list wholesale and update it for my own apps. Some of these just aren’t applicable to me, like presenations. I just don’t do them, so I don’t have a default app for them.
- Mail Service: Proton Mail
- Mail Client: Proton Mail
- Notes: Vivaldi
- To-Do: Vivaldi
- Calendar: Proton Calendar
- Contacts: Google Contacts/Proton Mail
- RSS Service: Feedly
- RSS Client: Feedly/Vivaldi
- Cloud storage: Synology Drive/Proton Drive
- Photo library: Google Photos/Synology
- Web Browser: Vivaldi
- Chat: Signal, WhatsApp, Weechat
- Bookmarks: Vivaldi
- Read Later: Vivaldi
- Reading: ReadEra (Mobile), Calibre (Desktop), Vivaldi (Web)
- Word Processing: LibreOffice Writer (Home), MS Word (Work)
- Spreadsheets: LibreOffice Calc (Home), MS Excel (Work)
- Presentations: Nope
- Shopping Lists: Nope
- Personal Finance: Google Sheets
- Music: Plex
- Podcasts: Podcast Addict
- Password Management: Bitwarden
- Social Media: Mastodon
- Weather: Home Assistant via Switchbot, Windows (the kind with glass)
- Search: DuckDuckGo
- Code Editor: vim
Day 31 of the #100DaysToOffload Series.
Work Applications
Like many people who use Linux on their home computer, my personal preference don’t get taken into consideration at work. Unfortunately, as far as my work laptop is concerned, I’m a Windows 11 user. So, just for fun I thought I’d do a brief inventory of the applications I use to get my work done on a day to day basis.
A New Markdown Editor
A couple of days ago, I mentioned that I had resumed using Ghostwriter after a while of just using VSCode to edit my blog. I think I’ve found something better.
Brief Update
Just a quick update.
Shiny And New
It’s been a long time since I’ve done a refresh of my default desktop. Things have been running pretty well, but it was definitely feeling it’s age. Finally, I decided to get to it.
No Available Internet
Well, that’s not exactly true, but close enough.
I’m sitting here, and there’s a guest WiFi hotspot here. I pull out my laptop and connect to it like a blithering idiot connecting to random hotspots with no concern for my security. Does it work? Well, kinda?
I can’t tell how fast the connection is. It won’t connect to anything on the web. I was able to pull down the repo that drives my web site, so I’m thinking that I’ll actually be able to publish this when I’m done typing it. I tried doing some brief updates to the system, and some of it work, but not all of it.
This kind of harkens back to my earlier post about how my computer is virtually all web based applications. I have a computer here, and I could be doing all kinds of things, but none of those things are installed. Instead, I find myself complaining in a blog post written in vim.
At least there’s vim. vim always works, no matter where you are. Thanks vim.
Day 26 of the #100DaysToOffload Series.
Offline Life
It’s been a while since I’ve put up a post. This isn’t going to be good for my 100 Days challenge since there are only so many days left in 2024, but there has just been things going on.
Failure Can Be Good
I think most of us have it in our head that failure is a bad thing. It’s understandable considering how we normally define failure. Failure is “not succeeding”, but sometimes not succeeding is just as good as succeeding.
The Nightmares Have Begun
I mentioned a couple days ago that I’d started my first class for this semester. I’ve barely begun, and we’re back to the same old nightmares.