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Quick Bit: Fix Vampire Battery Drain on Linux Laptop

Quick Bit: Fix Vampire Battery Drain on Linux Laptop

I recently picked up a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad L15 from Amazon. Given this laptop is a bit older put Linux Mint on it to maximize the resources available. The install was seamless and I didn't need to tinker or troubleshoot beyond normal post-install configuration and setup. That was

PaperClipAI - How I Built a Media Company in a Day Using a Zero-Human Company

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PaperClipAI - How I Built a Media Company in a Day Using a Zero-Human Company

PaperClipAI bills itself as: Open-source orchestration for zero-human companies. Hire AI employees, set goals, automate jobs and your business runs itself. I did want to test it out just given how cool it was conceptually and to figure out how the hell a "zero-human company" worked.

Review: Ente Auth

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Review: Ente Auth

As mentioned in Part 2 of my DeGoogle series, Google Auth was the first on the chopping block. This is due in part to the fact that a two factor authenticator is a tool I use consistently throughout the day for work and personal use. Enter Ente Auth.

Quick Bit: Fix Intermittent Wifi on Linux (Mint) due to PowerSave

This is mostly a reminder for myself as I expect I'll run into this issue again. I recently upgraded my Linux kernel to 6.17.0-22.22~24.04.1, which inadvertently removed my ability to connect to WiFi.

Quick Bit: Please, Silence Your Phone

Quick Bit: Please, Silence Your Phone

I look at my phone far too much. You do too. We all do. It is said that the average person checks their phone 205 times a day, which equates to an average of 4 hours and 37 minutes a day. I've been working on not doing that.

The DeGoogling: Part 2 - The Plan

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The DeGoogling: Part 2 - The Plan

After a few weeks of auditing my Google ecosystem I've come up with the following list of Google services that I am going to replace with alternatives.

The DeGoogling: Part 1 - The Why

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The DeGoogling: Part 1 - The Why

My 2026 goal is simple in theory, but hard in practice (as are most things): decouple from Google's ecosystem completely across all aspects of my tech sphere.