Documenting my spectacular mistakes and hard-won victories across tech, home labs, crypto, privacy, and cybersecurity. Because the best lessons come from breaking things first.
From server racks to crypto wallets, from VPNs to zero-days. Here's where I've been and what I've broken.
I went from Notion chaos to a self-hosted Obsidian vault that syncs across Ubuntu, Fedora, and GrapheneOS—in real time, without cloud subscriptions, via my Proxmox home server.
Two years after flashing GrapheneOS on my Pixel 7, here's what actually works, what broke, and why I'll never go back to stock Android.
I was paying $216/year for ChatGPT Pro. Then I staked 100 VVV and got Venice AI Pro for free—while earning 17% APY. Here's the math, the risks, and why this is the first crypto token that actually does something useful.
Hey, I'm the PixelFool — a self-taught tinkerer who's been breaking things long enough to learn how they actually work.
My home lab started as a single Raspberry Pi and somehow evolved into a rack-mounted monster that makes my electricity provider very happy. I've lost crypto to scams, recovered from ransomware, and once accidentally deleted an entire production database (we don't talk about that).
This blog is my honest, unfiltered record of every facepalm moment and every victorious "it works!" scream at 3 AM. If you're here to learn from my mistakes — you're in the right place.
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