Infrastructure

Introducing human effort as a quiet filter in response to changing patterns of engagement and effortless consumption.

A review of my experience from using a paid Proton Mail account over the past years and why I decided to leave the service after broken promises, technical failures, and ethical disappointments.

Life and project updates from the current consecutive three-month period. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools or you just want to read random things. :-)

Having gotten rid of my sole multimedia editing machine – a 2018 MacBook Pro – and tried but failed to implement a workflow on my computer, I set out and tried a different approach with the Google Pixel Tablet. Instead of using Google’s Android, however, I’m running GrapheneOS. This is a brief review of my experience with the De-Googled Pixel Tablet.

Going off-the-grid with an add-on for the Star Labs StarBook – and pretty much every other laptop – that adds situational awareness through various sensors and removes the need for privacy-invasive cloud services for things like GPS positioning and current temperature.

After over four years, I am simplifying the UPDC to make it more lightweight, more portable, and less in the way. This is a status update on the Ultra-Portable Data Center.