Some things about Linux

I was asked a while back by someone to share my opinion on Linux and knowing that the person asking me this wasn’t well versed with Linux and didn’t have much of an experience with it I said that Linux isn’t the best choice. At least not always. I did that because personally I have

Self hosted Git service with Gogs

I’ve been searching for a solution for private repositories that would not assume paying Github. It was not the money that represented an issue, but actually the security as I wanted it to be more internal and private, while Github was after all subject to a password reuse attack, because if they know it’s public

Killing a business, the printer method

The printer manufacturers have adopted a widespread business model which assumed making hardware cheap and selling cartridges at expensive rates which would bring them a long term profit. Well that was their idea and it was bad, because humans are liberal in nature and as long as they have money to spend they will try

Yearly payments for VPS

The VPS plans have gotten so cheap nowadays that I’ve been seeing more and more providers going for yearly pricing on low-end VPS offers. On one hand selling a low-end VPS at yearly rates is justified by the fact that it’s too much of a hassle to setup VPS’s that are less than $5/month on a monthly