I’ve had my Steam Deck (256GB version) for a bit over 6 months now and I love it! Being a mostly keyboard-and-mouse gamer, that was a bit of a surprise to me. Unboxing Experience Opening the Steam Deck was an easy process. The packaging has fun Valve-y designs and contains the contents well without using unneeded extra packaging. Setup (or lack thereof) The initial setup process was as simple as possible.

A simple issue at work with cloud hosts not being able to access an NFS mount on-prem turn into a multi-month bug hunt which ended with finding a low MTU network path and an AWS "feature" (pronounced bug)

After living with the 13" Framework laptop and releases of new specs for the 13" and plans for the 16", I've got some thoughts on my Framework

I recently upgraded my laptop to a Framework laptop since my old trusty laptop's screen cracked and a replacement screen cost as much as new some laptops. These are my initial impressions of the laptop's build, performance, and usability.

My process of finding the best way to boot Proxmox off an NVMe drive in an old Dell R510

My experience attending All Things Open for the first time

This December I graduated from Clemson University with my Masters degree in Computer Science. There were a lot of things I learned (obviously), but I think the most useful things I learned were not from the course material, but my outside learning and interactions with peers and professors.

ZFS is a great filesystem which I use on most of my systems and it makes full-drive backups a breeze. However, sometimes I want to backup to a non-ZFS system. These are the steps I use for fast and verified backups to a file on another computer.

Today I Learned about Kernel Same-page Merging (KSM)

I just got over having no internet at my apartment for over a week, and I can confirm that a trickle is better than nothing.

Setting up and maintaining a development environment is hard, especially when you need to destructively test features or libraries.

Today I Learned about Active Directory Forests

Changing a user's username on Linux requires no processes be running under that user. This makes sense, but what if we only have that user accessible through a SSh connection?