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Posts by Kevin Wammer

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Pixel week 1: switching after 18 years on iPhone After 18 years on iPhone, I switched to a Google Pixel 10. Week one starts with the move, the data transfer, and a surprise or two.

Pixel week 1: switching after 18 years on iPhone
After 18 years on iPhone, I switched to a Google Pixel 10. Week one starts with the move, the data transfer, and a surprise or two.

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I’m bringing everything under one roof I’m back from a break with a big decision: I’m merging my websites into one home here at overkill.

I’m bringing everything under one roof
I’m back from a break with a big decision: I’m merging my websites into one home here at overkill.

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Step aside, phone: week 4 The last week of this experiment saw my phone usage time explode. To be fair, I have a very good reason: I got a new phone. After 18(?) years of iOS, it is the first time I have used an Android device full-time. I spent the last few days setting up, customizing, installing and deleting apps, looking

Step aside, phone: week 4

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Unreleased the 17e, and changed the iPad Air wording to M3?

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Step aside, phone: week 3 I completely messed my stats up this week. And it was all due to me refreshing my email app several times a day, as I was (and am) waiting to hear back from someone. (I'll share in my private RSS club more info.) I've also spent a whole bunch of time on YouTube on my phone. Normally, I only watch Yo

Step aside, phone: week 3

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The first one goes live today, in case you still want to join!

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Secret RSS Club I thought I’d try something new. I’m launching a secret RSS Club for this blog. I’ll be publishing things there (potentially close to daily) I might not necessarily want to be public for whatever reason. Or that I don’t want some LLM thing to gobble up and use against me if there is ever some kind

Secret RSS Club

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Hiding the data At my job I spend most of my days looking at data. I'm the Head of Audience at a news organization which runs four different publications (in four different languages). I start my days making coffee looking at my various dashboards for any data emergencies. If there are any, I'll warn the respectiv

Hiding the data

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Step aside, phone: week 2 This week's Screen Time was higher than last week's. At least, I feel like it was. I am unsure about the exact numbers as Screen Time on my iPhone is still broken, but I have the distinct feeling I wasted more time dicking around on my phone. Mostly in the evenings, when I was watching TV. I realiz

Step aside, phone: week 2

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A reasonable amount of overkill One of my ongoing jokes is that the company I created (and killed last year) was called overkill Media, and not reasonable Media. This would explain why I do things the way I do them. This is probably most obvious with my hobbies. I have a slight(?) obsessive behavior whenever there is something new

A reasonable amount of overkill

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Step aside, phone: week 1 When I embarked on this experiment with Manu, I told him in advance that there was no chance I would be able to get even remotely close to his Screen Time minutes. In his post for the week, he himself explained why this is the case: Now, one consideration about this first week: in order to push my

Step aside, phone: week 1

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No more teleporting It keeps creeping up on me. I've realized I've been spending too much time again doing fuck-knows-what. Too much time on social media, too much time reading news, too much time reading emails, too much time listening to podcasts, too much time refreshing the same handful of apps over and over and o

No more teleporting

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Share your thoughts please thanks xoxo.

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I started watching the Bashos a year ago, and this is the most exciting one yet.

Both Yokozunas struggling, so many people fighting for first. Gotta love #sumo.

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I feel a bit dirty, but I vibe-coded a parcel tracking app for Linux because my beloved parcelapp.net doesn’t exist there.

It uses the Ship24 API for tracking and works well so far. One less reason to stay on macOS.

2 months ago 9 2 0 0

Some housekeeping: tech takes go to @overkill.wtf from now on. This account stays for other hobbies.

3 months ago 1 1 0 0
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Support Kevin Wammer | cliophate Support Kevin Wammer | cliophate

Now that @overkill.wtf isn’t a company anymore, I set up a Ko-fi if you want to support the work.

ko-fi.com/cliophate

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I'm downloading a file with one nanobyte per second.

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Well, I for my part, do not own any ModRetro products. Anduril metal or not.

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I told you, I’m not the only one into #Linux this year.

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This Linux experiment is going extremely well, I’ve only killed my install thrice so far.

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And with that, the company running overkill is officially closed.

Thanks for reading and for sticking around. Overkill continues as a passion project, written by @cliophate.wtf.

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I might be suffering from the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, but I’m seeing more and more people give Linux a shot lately and enjoy it.

I mean, I’m one of them.

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At this point, my search for a MacBook Pro replacement is down to four contenders:

Lenovo ThinkPad P14s (Intel)
Asus Zephyrus G14
Asus Flow Z13 (currently reviewing this)
And if I decide to go full overkill:
HP ZBook Ultra G1a

The ThinkPad is currently in the lead.

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I might have been cured already. Currently on @cachyos.org on one device, and @bazzite.gg on two others. I don’t see a reason (yet?!) to hop again.

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And it took me only a week before I started distro-hopping.

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Turns out, it’s already here. Got it as a review unit for the next three months. Backing up the original Win11 install via Rescuezilla before nuking and installing @bazzite.gg DX.

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But hey, I finally have the portable machine on the way, so I can fully embrace this experiment.

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I blame @castrojo.bsky.social for this. He sold it way too well.

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