Note to self on iCloud custom email’s unwritten rules:

• TTL has to be 3600
• remove quotes from SPF record

I’m embarrassed to admit how long it took me to figure that out 🫣

College football is my favorite because it’s terrible for retail on Saturdays and I, coincidentally, hate doing things at work.

Bought the domain name gary.onl a while back. I kinda want to change the name of this blog to that, because it’s simpler and rolls off the tongue better than grubz. And it’s kind of a play on words; Gary Online/Very Online. But I have so many links/images/feeds I’d have to manually update 😵‍💫

One BIG Trade Secret Ohio Cheese Makers Don’t Want You To Know (it’s listeria)

The peak of technology was RSS and Markdown.

I paid off the deffered portion of the electric bill from our old apartment just in time for AEP Ohio to raise the price higher than what I was paying for both over the last year. Especially shitty considering AEP just reported record profits.

Updated my Surface Go 2 to Debian 13 a few days ago. The resilience of this thing never ceases to amaze me. I bought it five years ago for a job, quit the job after six months and slapped Linux on it. It’s been my surprisingly capable daily driver ever since. Never underestimate the power of FOSS!

This has been driving me INSANE since switching to iOS 26 beta. In older versions, you would get the notification once and you could disable it. No way to disable it in settings yet.

Hoping this is just a quirk of the beta. Really bad placement if you’re actually using gps.

Is it even a blog post if you haven’t edited it at least six times over multiple days after it’s already been published?

BREAKING NEWS when you live in Ohio.