Jackson's capsule

hi, and welcome to my gemlog and Gemini capsule.

my name is jackson, and you might know me as jacksonchen666.

i'm a person. i also have a domain, a "server", and a lot of knowledge still in my head.

and on this website's and my blog and gemlog, i write about... things.

=> my blog

i also run some other stuff under the jacksonchen666.com domain, linked below:

=> wiki for infodumps | peertube for random videos | files subdomain for random files dump

i also have some other stuff i make i'd like to promote for anyone interested in it:

=> personal gentoo overlay | another informational osu!lazer skin | userscripts

blog posts

=> 2025-01-10: It was too hard, so I guess it's on my wiki now | 2025-01-02: 2 Computer Crises in 1 Week | 2024-12-11: Backups, A Useful Infodump | 2024-11-28: How hard can it be? | 2024-11-09: The Most Useless macOS Shortcut | 2024-11-05: Thunderbird, osu!(lazer), and Minecraft, on macOS and Linux, on an encrypted external drive | 2024-09-03: I like Tree Style Tab | 2024-07-04: Revisiting Linux as My Primary OS | 2024-06-20: Fonts | 2024-05-01: systemctl edit --full: Maybe Don't Use It | 2024-04-08: Creating Time Machine Backups Using a Drive That's Way Less Than Twice the Size of My Dataset | 2024-04-01: :3 | 2024-02-25: Confusing Shell Quotes | 2024-01-27: Disclaimer: This Blog May Be Bad and Incorrect | 2024-01-17: 2 Years of Sysadmining | 2024-01-08: Verifying Links in Mastodon Using More Mastodon | 2024-01-02: More Notes on Replacing the Fairphone 4 Screen | 2024-01-01: Monitor Resolutions and Sizes Review | 2023-12-17: osu!lazer and Health Drain | 2023-12-01: What it takes to setup a new domain name (for me) | 2023-11-26: The Logistical Mess of Trying to Process a Lot of Videos | 2023-11-19: Recovering From Syncthing Deleting My Data | 2023-11-19: The Last Few Days of My Server | 2023-11-14: Hey, I'm trying to juggle a million things. Be patient, OK? | 2023-11-08: Tridactyl with iTerm2 | 2023-11-06: OBS Multi Track Audio Setup | 2023-10-18: Starting at the Wrong Place | 2023-10-18: 100 Days to Offload Finally Complete | 2023-10-17: Day 104 | 2023-10-15: Significant Website Changes! (and other insignificant website changes) | 2023-10-13: When's the Next Friday the 13th? | 2023-10-11: The Only Valid Throwaway Email Address | 2023-10-05: Making a Random Blog Post to Ruin My Standards and Minimize My Perfectionism | 2023-10-03: Making a New Podcast: Wildcard Podcast | 2023-10-01: Communication, Language, and My Damn Microwave | 2023-09-27: How Copyright Encourages Individualism | 2023-09-26: A Contact Form Is Not a Substitute for Email Addresses | 2023-09-25: My Goals of Being Discoverable on the Internet | 2023-09-24: Deprecating the jc666.xyz Domain Name | 2023-09-23: Finding Subdomains With Certificate Transparency Logs | 2023-09-19: Even More Website Design Decisions | 2023-09-17: Link Color Changes. Again. | 2023-09-13: How Can You Tell If I'm Dead? | 2023-09-12: Why I Write Blog Posts Instead of Making Videos | 2023-09-10: A Date and Time Formatting Rant | 2023-09-08: Fairphone 4 Review, Close to 2 Years Later | 2023-09-04: Just a Quick Status Update Before I Go for a Bit | 2023-09-03: Random Bits of Information About My Self-Hosted Servers | 2023-09-01: Setting Up My Dotfiles or Something | 2023-08-30: Phigros Review | 2023-08-28: How I Remember Passwords | 2023-08-24: GitHub Anoyances | 2023-08-23: Fixing My Sleep Schedule by Sleeping With Someone Else | 2023-08-21: Should You Trust Information Based on Domain Names? | 2023-08-20: Why Did I Bother Blogging in the First Place Anyways? | 2023-08-15: Alpine Linux With Encrypted / and /boot but not /boot/efi | 2023-08-11: Even More Random Qubes OS Nonsense | 2023-08-10: Dealing With Btrfs Corruption | 2023-08-09: How to Change Your LUKS Key but Not the Password | 2023-08-08: Random Qubes OS Nonsense | 2023-08-07: My Kiwix Setup | 2023-08-06: Android APKs Shenanigans | 2023-08-05: Verify Your Password/Passphrase for Your APFS Volumes | 2023-08-04: Bypassing a Paywall by Intercepting 1 HTTPS Request | 2023-08-03: TNAS Update: A Little Bit Too Much Food | 2023-08-02: TNAS Update: Stood for 4 Hours, somehow did not die | 2023-08-01: TNAS Update: Enough for 1 Full Diamond Armor Set | 2023-07-31: Monitoring My Servers With Prometheus | 2023-07-30: Thousand Netherite Armor Sets (TNAS), Might Be a Bad Idea | 2023-07-29: YouTube Review | 2023-07-28: 100 Days to Offload Challenge Update and Other Random Stuff | 2023-07-27: WYSI | 2023-07-26: An even shorter domain name because the previous one was not short enough | 2023-07-25: Opinions About Apple's MacBook Touchbars | 2023-07-23: Cryptocurrency Isn't Even Practical | 2023-07-22: The Apostrophe Key | 2023-07-20: YouTube With mpv | 2023-07-19: Hardening SSH Just Because | 2023-07-18: Advertisers, You're on a Landmine Here | 2023-07-16: Figuring Out Why Alertmanager Isn't Sending Email Notifications | 2023-07-15: Idea: The Cat Templating Engine | 2023-07-14: Implementing SSHFP Records Because I Can | 2023-07-13: F-Droid App Review: Antimine | 2023-07-11: Security Questions: Ironically Insecure | 2023-07-10: Notes on Replacing the Fairphone 4 Screen | 2023-07-09: Nothinging | 2023-07-07: How Not to Open a Door | 2023-07-06: Submission Spam, and How I Dealt With It | 2023-07-05: Bill Wurtz | 2023-07-04: Responsive Web Design Without Specific Media Queries | 2023-07-03: Creating Blog Posts on My Phone Cause I Have No Computers Nearby | 2023-07-02: QR Codes Without the Middleman | 2023-07-01: Decentralized-ish | 2023-06-30: Out of Blog Posts | 2023-06-27: Domain Names Are the Most Persistent Thing on the Internet | 2023-06-26: Oops, My Query Breaks DuckDuckGo Lite | 2023-06-25: Authorized Fetch in Mastodon: Probably Important | 2023-06-24: The weakest point of The Door is The Walls | 2023-06-23: Design Decisions of This Website | 2023-06-21: A hyperspecific problem with a hyperspecific solution | 2023-06-20: New Link Colors on This Website | 2023-06-19: The Most Ridiculous Censorship Circumvension Setup: Wireguard over TCP over Yggdrasil | 2023-06-18: The Greatest Qalculator of All Time | 2023-06-17: Annoying Emails of the Day | 2023-06-16: KDE Connect Over WireGuard | 2023-06-15: YouTube Videos Aren't Ordinary Videos | 2023-06-14: Doing the 100 Days to Offload Challenge | 2023-06-13: Android's Mic and Camera Access Kinda Suck | 2023-06-12: Don't Forget to Backup Your Stuff | 2023-06-08: Hello Gemini | 2023-06-05: Wi-Fi as bad as a bad pet | 2023-06-03: Stop Doing Websites (Bonus: My New Gemini Capsule) | 2023-05-25: Subscriptions: The Reasonable and Unreasonable | 2023-04-30: Dear Nobody, | 2023-04-25: jacksonchen666.com is Going Self Hosted | 2022-12-03: reducing the database size for matrix synapse | 2022-11-06: how to change the encryption password for an APFS volume with diskutil | 2022-08-29: list of privacy respecting/alternative front-end things i would recommend

the rest of the posts are on the website (if any):

=> main website blog posts

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the rest of the daily links are on the website (if any):

=> main website links of the day

Jackson's capsule

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