2026-06-02T20:41:52+00:00 Created a new website here at offgridholdout.org. In the process of configuring it up with services. Stay Tuned! 2026-06-02T22:17:10+00:00 I want to say I have too many projects, I'm bouncing between multipe ones as we speak... but, nah, I like keeping busy! 2026-06-03T00:52:43+00:00 Redesigning my offgridholdout.org page was a lot of fun! 2026-06-03T03:09:58+00:00 Crash course in OpenBSD on the agenda. Hold on to your hats folks...knowledge drop on the way! 2026-06-03T13:28:05+00:00 Gemcities.com needs a better logo... what to do... 2026-06-03T15:13:40+00:00 New logo for Gemcities. Simple. Clean. Got me looking at other updates for the community. 2026-06-03T19:06:44+00:00 No more updates for Gemcities. Simple is how it started and simple is how it should remain. Gotta keep my scope creep in check! 2026-06-04T13:41:22+00:00 Proxmox setup on home server home... time to play 2026-06-04T20:12:44+00:00 Installing OS/2Warp 4 in 86Box as we speak... Why? Because I can! 2026-06-05T17:04:00+00:00 I feel out of sorts today...bouncing around from project to project. 2026-06-05T22:46:20+00:00 Gentoo Linux installed on Proxmox! 2026-06-06T02:54:06+00:00 Added a Listening box to show currently playing, and last played from my self-hosted Navidrome Music Server! 2026-06-06T16:17:04+00:00 Saturday cleaning completed! Working on a set list for some solo acoustic gigs I have coming up. 2026-06-07T01:11:08+00:00 What a relaxing Saturday this has been! 2026-06-07T16:25:48+00:00 Taking a break from coding and dev projects today and spend it organizing my 14,000 song music library I self-host with Navidrome 2026-06-07T23:41:49+00:00 Just got a great idea for a novella I will be working on. two other already in the queue. My brian never shuts off! 2026-06-08T14:14:57+00:00 pulling a bunch of historiography articles I wrote to repopulate an upcoming history research site. 2026-06-09T23:50:22+00:00 Installed Whonix in a VM today and playing around with it and Tor. Different vibe for sure! 2026-06-11T23:09:37+00:00 What a werid ass day today has been! 2026-06-13T14:57:30+00:00 Cleaning up my ecosystem today, catching stray services and use cases. After that, some more OpenBSD learning. 2026-06-13T23:22:45+00:00 doing pubnix admin training on a local self-hosted Linux box for a future, VERY small pubnix 2026-06-14T17:42:30+00:00 Lazy Sunday. Working on pubnix admin training and updating my massive music library 2026-06-16T02:27:53+00:00 Setup Elk and Alexandrite to manage my fediverse accounts. Trying my damndest to get off Reddit! 2026-06-22T16:00:14+00:00 Major overhaul of my webpage. What do you think? 2026-06-23T20:47:50+00:00 A whole day wasted because Claude failed to follow my implicit instructions and reference material 2026-06-23T21:37:08+00:00 For people who say AI is making us dumber, I disagree. I've learned more about coding in three months than the past 10 years. 2026-06-24T18:13:47+00:00 If Claude Code tells me one more fucking time 'Fair point' to a request I am going to loose my shit! 2026-06-28T21:19:58+00:00 Migrating my home domain off of Cloudflare. I gotta tell you, this is where I appreciate AI. Making this go smooth as butter! 2026-06-29T21:19:09+00:00 I am off of Cloudflare! It served it's purpose, but glad to be off of yet another corpo site! 2026-06-30T11:05:39+00:00 It's 2026 and I am troubleshooting ZMODEM issues with a TUI.. Who would have thunk it? :) 2026-06-30T12:39:22+00:00 Making progress on Waystone Comm TUI browser. Had to change the name and I almost abandoned this. Glad I didn't 2026-07-06T15:10:53+00:00 Blowing shit up to celebrate a holidy is asinine, and most who do it are inconsiderate of others. 2026-07-12T16:51:13+00:00 The weekend has flown by. Cannot believe it is Sunday already. 2026-08-15T19:37:00-05:00 Taking Offgrid Holdout away from pubnix and to a more personal blog. Better control and customized backend... 2026-08-16T12:07:30-05:00 Major progress on my #self-hosted servers and getting them organized! 2026-08-16T15:50:43-05:00 Offgrid Holdout is now federated with ActivityPub and Webmention! @calvusrex@offgridholdout.org 2026-08-17T15:21:31-05:00 Configuring 86Box with MS-DOS 6.22 running as an old school 486DX2/66 and going to install a TBD BBS multi-node... Like the early 90s! 2026-08-18T22:20:04-05:00 I finally have 86Box configured as a 486DX2/66, MS-DOS 6.22, DESQview 2.8, QEMM 7.5, and running two nodes of Renegade BBS with a working 16-bit multiplayer LoRD game!! 2026-08-19T18:20:26-05:00 telnet bbs.offgridholdout.org 2524 up and running two nodes of Renegade BBS! LoRD and TradeWars currently running! Score! 2026-08-19T21:10:13-05:00 My website on Mastodon.social got suspended because it was reported AI. Packed it all into one because I use AI gen images! Seriously??? 2026-08-22T10:55:39-05:00 Relaxed Saturday morning.. listening to some Santana, working on projects, and just basically chilling. I foresee a beer or two later in my future! 2026-08-23T21:26:05-05:00 Added more door games! Now running LoRD, TW2002,BRE, SRE, Planets:TEOS, Usurper, DoorMUD, and Darkness! 2026-09-01T19:44:24-05:00 Watched season 1, 2 and what currently exists of season 3 of the series "Silo"... debating whether I should read the books. I love this series. 2026-09-02T11:18:00-05:00 Troubleshooting QWK and Zmodem transfers like a 1990's SysOp! 2026-09-10T10:10:39-05:00 Leaving all AI related subreddits. Reddit users are fucking idiots.