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FYI, if you’re an Apple One Premier subscriber you can get Peacock Premium Plus for the price of Premium when you subscribe through the Apple TV app.

Picked up a Dream Router 7 during the Black Friday sale. So far, I love this thing. So much geeky stuff to play with. Also upgraded the OS on my Pi Hole and set it up from scratch. Set up conditional forwarding so I can get device names too. Last step was setting up Tailscale to use the Pi Hole too.

Fedora KDE Plasma was not for me. Decided to go back to the trusty Mint for now. Zorin 18 had too many bugs that were annoying me.

My top podcasts of 2025. No surprises here.

I decided to give Fedora KDE Plasma a chance. Wiped my Zorin OS install and am test driving the latest Fedora for a bit. You can customize so much more in KDE than Gnome.

I was excited to see the Taildrop feature in Tailscale until I saw that you have to use the command line on Linux to use it. I’ll stick with LocalSend until Tailscale develops a GUI for Linux (it may never happen).

I’m officially at the “Adjust the screen resolution on your laptop” age.

30 years. Feel old yet?

I picked up a new phone today. T-Mobile, in their infinite wisdom, thinks it’s a smart idea to text the phone number you’re activating in order to approve the activation. What a cluster fuck that was.

The YouTube app just started downloading videos without me asking. I have never used the feature. I never watch without internet access. Had to drill into setting to turn off settings that were turned on by default including auto downloading suggested content.