My RSS (Atom) feed can be found here.Home to Gentoo/Arch Linux guides, ThinkPads, Casio watches, and other assorted tech, as well as anything else I create, such as poetry or mathematics research.
Direct all questions, comments, corrections, results, or just say hi at xerxes@persrex.xyz - expect infrequent replies, but I will read all of your emails eventually. Also note that if I respond, certain email services (such as Gmail) will place emails from this address in spam (for no reason whatsoever). Other services (such as certain university email addresses, Gmail or not) may fail to deliver the email to you at all, even to spam, which is absolutely insane. However, I will receive any emails sent to this address. If you want to test whether or not you can receive replies from me before continuing a conversation, just send me a simple email titled "ping" and I'll reply to it within a few days. Thank you.
My time with Tony Hawk's Underground
Pokémon Alpha Sapphire is deeply flawed
Text censoring helps nobody and harms everybody
youtube-dl is the glue holding the internet together
Elitism is the easy way out; or, why not to say "RTFM"
The Evil of JavaScript has come for my website
Google's Orwellian Behavior #72861: Top Comments on YouTube
How to replace the internet with RSS feeds
How to use suckless software instead of a desktop environment
What's the appeal of old ThinkPads?
My collected thoughts on libre software (work in progress)
Casio is the ThinkPad of watches
Why Folding@home is not that great
Digital scarcity's threat to a free society
About xpr, a rewrite of the core POSIX/Single Unix Specification utilities
A little bit about the death of ad blockers in Chromium
For mathematics-related articles, see the math index.
Poetry I wrote can be found here.
The work I've done so far in college can be found here. All documents are free cultural works released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license (along with their LaTeX sources).
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