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KW1402 – Fighting Your Distractions

Jul 30, 2019kdmurrayPodcastsfocus, helium, linux, openbox, productivity, storytime

On this episode of the Knightwise.com podcast we talk about fighting your online distractions. Besieged by lolcats, social media, popups and the Google quest to find out which starship captain was both in Star Trek and ‘Murder She Wrote’, we look for a way to get fight distractions and things done. Another storytime episode to…

Helium Linux: When your old machine needs some oxygen.

Jul 26, 2019knightwiseKnightlifecrunchbang, geany, helium, imac, linux, openbox

I have this old iMac lying around that I got off of some guy on Craigslist 2 years ago. It was a little bit of a “pet project” to tinker around with and to see how far I could take this computer from 2009. Swapping out the internal spinning-rust drive with an SSD was a…