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  • Rands is Cleansing his news sources

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    Curtis McHale

    Like many Michael is doing a media cleanse and at the same time proves my oft-made point that you should own your content. Speaking of his not yet delete Twitter account: I’ve downloaded the complete archive, and I’m sad to say I’m about to create a bunch of 404 errors when my corpus of tweets…

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  • Fedora 40 to 41 Upgrade

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    Curtis McHale

    I bit the bullet this week and updated my laptop from Fedora 40 – 41. Outside of needing to reinstall goodhosts for VVV to work, the update is flawless. I continue to be happy with my switch from macOS to Fedora and have even repurposed my Mac Studio to a media center PC on the…

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  • PC handheld as your main computer

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    Curtis McHale

    Wulff Den did a video 6 months ago using a PC Handheld gaming system as his only computer for a week. This reminds me of people ditching their computer for an iPad Pro, yes it’s possible but there are lots of silly hoops you have to jump through to make it work as a “work”…

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  • You Don’t need Social Media Marketing

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    Curtis McHale

    From Cory on social media. Find your space and don’t feel obligated to participate in any of it. This goes with some ideas I had recently on only posting on your own site to avoid angertainment. You’ll read so much about making your personal brand and the places you need to be to make that…

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  • 2 Amazing Site Retro Pixel Themes

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    Curtis McHale

    I love the look of both localghost and nicchan. I’d love to use nescss for one of my sites in the future. I love that the look of the web is trending fun again instead of the stale cookie cutter version we’ve had for a long time now.

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  • 5-Year Timeframes

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    Curtis McHale

    Joanna’s post on 5-year timeframes hits at a poignant time for me. I started a new notebook this week and that means I’ve got a front section that looks at my intentions, which I’ve been dreading because I know I made almost no progress on them in the last year. If I’m honest, I haven’t…

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  • Beardy Blogroll

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    Curtis McHale

    I highlighted Molly’s list of sites to follow and today found another one I’ll try a few sites from. Check out the Beardy Guy blogroll.

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  • Tracy on Capitalism Brain

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    Curtis McHale

    Tracy has a great take on capitalism brain making us think that if we didn’t work 40 hours this week then we’re lazy. In many fields if you didn’t work 50 hours or more you’re clearly “unproductive”. Her second reminder is that errands and chores are work. When one parent at my house is doing…

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  • Avoiding Angertainment

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    Curtis McHale

    I really like Om’s word angertainment to describe what gets popular on social media. This goes not just for the “big tech” platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit, but I see it happening on Mastodon as well. Not always merely from those accounts that are engagement farming, but from lots of accounts, some of which…

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  • Escape the Noise with Molly White’s RSS recommendations

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    Curtis McHale

    Molly White has a long list of RSS feeds to recommend if you’re looking to read more online but don’t want to get pushed into whatever big tech algorithms think you should read. Thanks to Matt for pointing these out to me.

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