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This is going to be a very niche complaint. Please feel free to skip. I currently use Monzo for budgeting. Nothing else works quite as well. Nothing else works quite as well because Monzo, and only Monzo, deals with a ridiculously common budgeting scenario in a sensible way - i.e. sometimes I buy something on my card, and someone else pays for part of it, and then I want to actually see my remaining budget. ...

As Microsoft continues to turn Windows 11 into a vector for more Copilot stupidity nobody wants, a lot of attention has now been put onto Linux, which - thanks in no small part to Valve’s excellent work on getting Steam games to run mostly well with a very good success rate - now seems like it might actually have some viability as a desktop operating system. But how should you best broach the subject to people who might be interested? Here is a helpful step by step guide for anyone familiar with Linux on how to spread the word! ...

I have decided to blow away Wordpress and instead use Hugo to make this run as a static website. This is a colossal pain for no particular benefit but then if I didn’t like that I wouldn’t go to the gym or use Arch Linux.