<title>Building a Completely Normal Server</title>
<id>building_a_normal_server</id>
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<published>2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
<summary>I spent the past few months making full use of all my physical engineering talents to build a NAS that is completely normal, and not weird at all, and involved an amount of 3D modeling, 3D printing, and hacksawing that is entirely typical of most home computer builds, all in the name of reusing an old laptop.</summary>
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<entry>
<title>My Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Distro Hop</title>
<id>my_terrible_distro_hop</id>
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<summary>A chronicle of my brief journey from EndeavourOS to Fedora to back to EndeavourOS, and wrestling with a VPN client that sees itself as above such trifling matters as "functioning".</summary>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>How to Make Youtube Videos Buffer All The Way Like The Old Days (In Firefox)</title>
<id>guide_fix_youtube_buffering_firefox</id>
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<title>The Invaluable Contributions of AI Tools to Humanity: A Look at the Unparalleled Benefits</title>
<id>invaluable_contributions</id>
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<published>2024-01-02T00:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2024-01-02T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
<summary>AI tools offer unparalleled benefits to humanity, enhancing efficiency, healthcare, education, environmental sustainability, customer experiences, scientific research, and social accessibility. Despite ethical concerns, responsible development ensures that the positive impact of AI far outweighs potential downsides.</summary>
<summary>How to permanently banish geeksforgeeks.org from your search results in the event you're using a self-hosted SearXNG instance and can't just install uBlacklist.</summary>
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<published>2023-08-16T00:00:00+00:00</published>
<updated>2023-08-16T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
<summary>An article about why you should quit using Chromium-based browsers, published as a standalone website for the purpose of automatically redirecting Chromium users to it.</summary>
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<summary>How to configure Nginx to tell Cloudflare and their shitty centralized Fediverse server to go fuck themselves. And other unwelcome stuff too, I guess.</summary>
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