DevOps Engineer / Developer
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EMAIL:
oscar@gomez.wtf
Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
I recently got fed up enough with ads while regularly using my mobile Android Marshmallow phone (/cough Youtube, App games, Reddit) that it pushed me to investigate a simple means of getting rid of them. The conditions were that it has to be easy to setup, maintain, and wouldn’t require rooting the phone. So I began looking for solutions and recalled that Vultr recently started offering very cheap cloud instances at $2....
Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu 16.04 and upgrades
I recently needed an upgrade from my 4 year old, 6 pound Lenovo IdeaPad Z580 laptop that doesn’t last close to an hour on battery life anymore, so I went shopping around to find a lighter weight upgrade. After seeing a bunch of good customer reviews, video reviews and seeing it had decent Linux support, I landed on choosing the Dell XPS 13 i5 Skylake ultrabook as the replacement....