We cannot protect ourselves from these ad corporations because they have eyes and ears hidden everywhere. They can see us and we can’t see them. They know who we are but we don’t know how they know. And we don’t know who “they” are.
This may apply to many setups, but my specifics are: Fedora (Linux), Gnome desktop running Wayland. I have a self-hosted Matrix server and connect with an Element client from my Fedora machine. The Element client would work when it first opened but after sitting idle for a while, when I’d pull it up again, the… Read More »
God is love, love never fails. So if Jesus fails to save anyone, is that failure? Infernalists say no, it’s not failure because the unsaved have rejected Jesus so it’s their choice. But Jesus came to seek and save the lost, so how could anyone remain lost and unsaved while saying Jesus succeeded? If anyone… Read More »
If you’re recording your voice-over into OBS through a Behringer UMC204HD, or probably many audio interfaces, I would guess, you might be annoyed with all of your sound being isolated to one side (all left or all right). The fix is a bit unintuitive, but not totally. Go to OBS Settings: Go to Audio and… Read More »
In Gnome, the default Alt+Tab switcher groups windows by application: You can switch it so that they are ungrouped: Go to:Settings > Keyboard > View and Customize Shortcuts Go toNavigation Instead of Alt + Tab switching applications You can set Alt + Tab to “Switch windows” Click the Switch windows row and enter the keyboard… Read More »
You might be thinking “well, that’s oddly specific”. Yes, yes it is. Anyway, if you’re running Debian Linux and you use 1Password and have to log in separately to your desktop app and your browser extensions, you’re in luck. There is a fix. Oh SNAP! SNAPs and Flatpaks Don’t Work! If your browser has been… Read More »
A common response to tracking is “so what, they aren’t going to do anything bad with that data”. Somehow, people think that since they don’t understand, or even know, what Microsoft would do with the tracking data that there’s no risk in letting them track us. Many people are that trusting. I have personally been… Read More »
Background Linux Distro: Kubuntu Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 24.10 Release: 24.10 Codename: oracular PlasmaShell Version: plasmashell 6.1.5 This is a bit of an edge-case, I imagine, but I can’t be the only one so here’s how to handle this. The Problem When using a Behringer UMC204HD USB interface with Kubuntu (specifics above), the USB… Read More »
I’m reconsidering what the Bible means when it talks about “faith”. I used to think that it meant that you have to believe that God exists, and I do believe that is included, but that’s not really the crux of it. (no pun intended) It seems silly to imagine someone arriving before God, after a… Read More »
When you hear of these massive wastes that DOGE is finding, it’s important to boil it down to the individual level. For example, the Biden EPA tossed $20 billion of “gold bars off the Titanic”, according to Lee Zeldin. What does 20 billion wasted dollars mean? Type into a calculator: 20,000,000,000 / 330,000,000 (people) That’s… Read More »