Just gonna leave myself a link to this post from @geerlingguy on the speed difference between Rsync and Rclone. You know, for future reference.

Completed Books

1. Flag In Exile by David Weber
2. Honor Among Enemies by David Weber
3. In Enemy Hands by David Weber
4. The Initial Fold by Nick Adams
5. The Andromedan Fold by Nick Adams
6. The Messier Fold by Nick Adams
7. The Cygnus Fold by Nick Adams
8. The Acheron Fold by Nick Adams
9. The Medusa Fold by Nick Adams
10. The Halo Fold by Nick Adams
11. Artifact by Joshua James
12. Cascade by Joshua James
13. Lineage by Joshua James
14. Awakened by Joshua James
15. The Aspirant by Nick Adams
16. The Recruit by Nick Adams
17. Entanglement by Gerald Kilby
18. Entropy by Gerald Kilby
19. Evolution by Gerald Kilby
20. Enigma by Gerald Kilby
21. Exodus by Gerald Kilby

Certainly a theme in my books this year. Most of these were new authors for me (which I discovered via Facebook). Not necessarily the greatest of reads, but they are entertaining enough. I prefer the Bache Loftt series over The Fold series by Nick Adams but again both are enjoyable reads and I’m already two and a half books into both of these series in 2026 already.

I was trying out the latest Thunderbird release today and having issues getting my OpenPGP key working via my Yubikey. I had already enable the use of external GnuPG and set the path appropriately to the gnupg binary. After delving into the Thunderbird developer console I discovered an error “request to use external GnuPG key, but GPGME isn’t working”.

Recently I’ve been working with OpenPGP and configuring my gpg keys to work on my Yubikeys. I’ve also been testing out some of the new (to me anyways) secure email providers like Proton and Tuta. I quickly gave up on Tuta, it isn’t my cup of tea. Proton on the otherhand seems to be something interesting. During this whole process I’ve learned about the Web Key Directory and this intrigued me enough to get it working for my own domains.

You ever spent a significant chunk of time configuring a computer just so? I’ve been doing a bit of that recently during my recuperation period. Got it all nicely configured, even have some online backups going and then BAM! Bye bye ssd ☹️