I want to inform you all that the blog is moving to https://massivebox.net/blog. Please point your RSS reader to https://massivebox.net/rss.xml.
All existing articles have already been migrated, and more content is coming (which sounds strange, considering that this blog has been inactive for more than an year now, but trust me!)
This change comes thanks to Astro, the framework I'm using for the rewrite of the site. It allows me to keep an in-site blog much more easily, which allows for a more consistent design and user experience.
This blog will not receive new content. In a couple of months from now I'll set up all necessary redirects and the current site will not be reachable.
Thanks for following me all this time. If you have any question or input, leave it in the comments.
If you've been on the internet for a while, you might recognize what is in this article's cover photo as the SouljaGame Handheld: a cheap knock-off emulation handheld that got popular thanks to the rapper SouljaBoy reselling it and claiming it as his creation. Well, I have that console, and I love it. Let me tell you why.
As the year comes to a close, I like to reflect on the progress I've made and the lessons I've learned. In this blog post, I'm going to take a look at the servers that have played a crucial role in supporting my services over the past years. By analyzing their performance, reliability and cost, I hope to gain some valuable insights into how I can improve and optimize my infrastructure in the future, and perhaps give you readers some inspiration to start a home server of your own, with more knowledge of the pros and cons of each solution.
During the start of Russia's cruel and unjustified invasion of Ukraine, I decided to do my little part by switching my email provider from Yandex.Mail to Disroot. But due to Disroot's lackluster support and some dominant position exploit by a couple of big corps, I'm now switching back.
LinuxFX, a commercial Linux distribution designed to mimic Microsoft Windows' desktop and user experience, has been hit with a data leak, which revealed that the OS collects the users' IP addresses and geodata. Here is my opinion on the matter as a LinuxFX user.
With Facebook's totally not suspicious rebranding to Meta, and with a lot of marketing put into advertising this thing called Metaverse, there has been some confusion about what it is.
In this article, I will cover what it is, and how it's not the way out of big tech's control.
I will also talk about the Fediverse, a community-run network that does what Facebook claims to do, but better.
I've been using Linux for a while now, and my go-to plaintext editor has always been Geany. I've always used it to edit all kinds of plaintext files, like configs, school notes, etc., but before a couple of days ago I had never seen it as a proper IDE.
Here I am, almost at midnight, and I've just finished setting up WriteFreely.
I really think this has the potential to be a cool place for me to express my thoughts, write some organic content and be creative.
