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Amazon Kindle’s ecosystem lets you buy an ebook and begin reading seconds after purchasing it. However, as most of Amazon’s book are DRM-protected, you cannot make a backup of your library or convert your books´ format to read them on another platform. Companies come and go, and even if Amazon’s is here for the long run, it’s policies regarding how you can access the content your paid for may change in the future. Read more...

I’ll copy this xkcd comic here so I can find when I fall into another Emacs org-mode time sink. Source: https://xkcd.com/1205/ Read more...

Source: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/sandersons-first-law/ Sanderson’s First Law of Magic An author’s ability to solve conflict with magic is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to how well the reader understands said magic. Books with Soft Magic systems are books where magic is included in order to establish a sense of wonder and give the setting a fantastical feel. Really good writers of soft magic systems very rarely use their magic to solve problems in their books. Read more...

I’ve migrated this blog from Pelican to Hugo. This blog has always been a static/baked blog. Content is just a collection of html files which reside in a Linode instance. This allows me to use a very minimal server instance to host it. Dynamic content generators like Wordpress generate content by extracting the articles from a database and producing a webpage on the fly, they allow for more complex setups, but also have a higher footprint. Read more...

You don’t need Unetbootin, MacOS’ Boot Camp, or Rufus for Windows to create a Windows 10 USB bootable drive on a Mac to install Windows on a PC. I needed to install Windows 10 in a new custom-build PC. I don’t have a single machine running Windows at home, so using Windows to create the bootable installer was out of the question. I tried most of the recommended methods, but after booting from the USB drive and partitioning the disk of the new machine, the Windows installer always complained that it couldn’t find some files it needed for the installation. Read more...