Cheapskate’s Guide

December 18, 2023

Start a personal website in 2018? Keep it going writing about various topics of interest to Low End computing? All this and more. Perhaps sometimes the takes from the author run rather sound a touch paranoid. No, the big Internet is not really interested in censoring individuals. I think we would all be better off if we assume true free speech is not a service provided by benevolent corporations. It is easy to feel as if we can expect this freedom all the time, but even NearlyFreeSpeech has their limits too.

The design of the site is what I would call brutalist. The line-width is too wide and the font for the body text is not defined. Even with a generic sans-serif or serif would help the experience. It isn’t necessary after all this is what Reader View is for. Some selected posts:

• 09–20–2018 - When Buying a Computer, More Knowledge Equals Lower Cost
• 09–26–2018 - Why You should Absolutely be using Linux!
• 11–07–2019 - Going Dark: Looking for the End of the Internet, Part 1
• 03–18–2019 - Is Technoaddiction Real?
• 06–18–2020 - Going Dark: Looking for the End of the Internet, Part 2: Rediscovering the Beauty of Text on the Internet
• 08–13–2020 - On Becoming an Internet Savant
• 08–27–2020 - Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website
• 09–24–2020 - Going Dark: Looking for the End of the Internet, Part 3: The Gemini Project
• 11–12–2020 - Seven Reasons for having a Personal Website
• 11–25–2021 - A Review of the 2008 Lenovo ThinkPad T500
• 02–18–2022 - Five Personal Blogs to Read on a Cold Winter’s Night
• 07–31–2022 - Some Thoughts on Collecting Computers
• 01–03–2023 - Finding “The Internet” Toxic and Depressing? Consider Leaving Your Walled Garden.