self-hosting - Veronica Explains

A 90s-era AIM window with a message from XplaintriX which reads "Discord sucks, lol"

retro

Here's how I host my own AIM server

Tired of Discord? Want to chat with your friends using that perfectly good Windows 98 machine? Well now you can spin up your own AIM server.

A picture of a laptop with a tty screen running vim, the screen is filled with the words from a video script.

intentional tech

It's time to talk about my writerdeck

tldr: * I installed console-only Debian on an old laptop (no desktop OS at all) * I added some packages to make it work better for writing: * network-manager for connecting to hotspots while I'm away * kmscon for custom fonts and more than 16 colors in the tty * tmux

The word "rsync!" superimposed over a tmux session with an rsync invocation in the bottom pane.

tutorials

Everyday rsync

A blog post about using (and appreciating) rsync.

I'm making a "thinking" face. Superimposed are the words "Speech Recognition in Kdenlive", and "hmm. I wonder why more people don't use Kdenlive's speech recognition feature?"

accessibility

Speech recognition and automatic captioning on the Kdenlive Flatpak

Kdenlive has a great subtitle and speech recognition feature, but it can be a pain to set it up when using Flatpak.