. . . lot of stuff

Amolith created

Change summary

_includes/header.html            |   3 
_includes/meta_tags/sharing.html |   4 
assets/pages/me.png              |   0 
assets/svgs/me-cover.svg         | 242 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
index.html                       |   5 
me.html                          |  25 +++
me.md                            |  17 --
7 files changed, 277 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Detailed changes

_includes/header.html šŸ”— 

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
         <a href="/feed.xml" title="The RSS feed for my blog"class="social-linkes__entry" target="_blank">
             <i class="fa fa-rss-square"></i>
         </a>
+        <a href="/me/" title="About Amolith" class="social-links__entry">
+            <i class="fa fa-info-circle"></i>
+        </a>
         {% if site.author.mastodon %}
         <a rel="me" title="Mastodon, a decentralised social network" href="https://masto.nixnet.xyz/@{{ site.author.mastodon }}" class="social-links__entry" target="_blank">
             <i class="fa fa-mastodon"></i>

_includes/meta_tags/sharing.html šŸ”— 

@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
 <meta name="twitter:title" content="{{ title }}" />
 <meta name="twitter:description" content="{{ description }}" />
-<meta name="twitter:image" content="/{{ cover }}" />
+<meta name="twitter:image" content="{{ cover }}" />
 <meta property="og:locale" content="{{ site.lang }}">
 <meta property="og:type" content="article">
 <meta property="og:title" content="{{ title }}">
 <meta property="og:description" content="{{ description }}">
 <meta property="og:url" content="{{ page.url | replace:'index.html','' | prepend: site.url }}">
 <meta property="og:site_name" content="{{ site.title }}">
-<meta property="og:image" content="/{{ cover }}" />
+<meta property="og:image" content="{{ cover }}" />

assets/svgs/me-cover.svg šŸ”— 

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index.html šŸ”— 

@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ priority: 0.9
             <p>Mattermost is a FLOSS application for real-time chat. Use this for communicating with other users, joining a few different communities, and getting support for NixNet services.</p> 
             <a href="https://nixnet.xyz/mattermost/"><button class="button">Chat!</button></a>
         </div>
+        <div class="card">
+            <h1><b>Mastodon</b></h1> 
+            <p>Mastodon is a decentralised microblogging social network with millions of users worldwide. You can create an account on one "instance" and interact with an instance from across the world.</p> 
+            <a href="https://masto.nixnet.xyz"><button class="button">Socialise!</button></a>
+        </div>
         <div class="card">
             <h1><b>Wireguard</b></h1> 
             <p>WireGuard is an open source application and protocol that uses VPN techniques to create secure tunnels in various configurations. It aims to be more performant than OpenVPN or IPsec.</p>

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+layout: page
+title: Amolith (me)
+subtitle: GNU/Linux lover and multi-instrumentalist
+description: A bit about NixNet's admin, Amolith
+cover: /assets/pages/me.png
+permalink: /me/
+---
+<p>I am an 18 year old student who lives in the Southern US. This is my last year in high school and Iā€™m planning to graduate with my high school diploma, an Associateā€™s Degree in Arts, a second in Sciences, and a third in Fine Arts, Music.</p>
+<center><h1>Experience with Linux, abbrv.</h1></center>
+<center><h2>Where it all started</h2></center>
+<p>I got started with GNU/Linux nearly two years ago and it was amazing. The only computer I had at the time was an Acer C710 Chromebook that I got at the beginning of 8th grade. I had this for three years before I grew tired of how limited it was. A friend told me about this thing called Linux and how I should look into seeing if I could get it on my Chromebook. He brought a USB stick to school that he said was ā€œbootableā€. I had no idea what this was but I trusted him. We turned off my Chromebook and turned it back on and he tried pressing a bunch of keys. This didnā€™t do anything. He was really confused and told me Iā€™d have to do my own research on how to install Linux. I did and, eventually, I discovered a few tutorials I could follow. I combined a couple different ones, messed with the motherboard, enabled dev mode, flashed a new BIOS, and got vanilla Ubuntu installed.</p>
+<center><h2>Distro hopping</h2></center>
+<p>I had a very bad experience with this because the Acer C710 has a 1.1 GHz dual-core processor, 2 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of storage (SSD). I didnā€™t give up though and started distro hopping, looking for the most lightweight distro I could find. This eventually led me to GalliumOS, a distro built for Chromebooks. It ran well enough but I had heard of this thing called Arch that was supposed to be the ultimate. I knew I couldnā€™t install vanilla Arch so I went with ArcoLinuxD (ArchMergeD, at the time) and it was a great experience. Thatā€™s whatā€™s still on my Chromebook.</p>
+<center><h2>ā€œRealā€ computer</h2></center>
+<p>Last March, a friendā€™s father got me a brand new laptop that actually works. I left Windows on it for three days then wiped it. I went with ArchLabs and loved it . . . until I tried to play some Steam games. Apparently there was a font issue with some of ArchLabsā€™ s fonts. No one was able to help so I just went for Arch. I installed Xubuntu (I like lightweight distros on powerful machines) on half the drive and worked on Arch for the other half. I tried and failed in two days the first time and succeeded in 15 minutes the next time. It took all the next day to get it set up. Iā€™m actually still on that same installation and haven't had anything break so far.</p>
+
+<center><h1>That brings us to . . . now</h1>
+<p>I should really put something here šŸ¤”
+<br>
+For the time being, check out my Masto feed! šŸ˜</p>
+<iframe allowfullscreen sandbox="allow-top-navigation allow-scripts" width="400" height="600" src="https://www.mastofeed.com/api/feed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmasto.nixnet.xyz%2Fusers%2Famolith.atom&theme=dark&size=100&header=true&replies=false&boosts=false"></iframe>
+<br>
+<p>If you want to contact me, check the <a href="{{ '/contact' | prepend: site.baseurl }}">Contact</a> page.</p>
+</center>

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-layout: page
-title: 
-subtitle: GNU/Linux lover and multi-instrmentalist
-permalink: 
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-## A bit about me
-I am an 18 year old student who lives in the Southern US. This is my last year in high school and Iā€™m planning to graduate with my high school diploma, an Associateā€™s Degree in Arts, a second in Sciences, and a third in Fine Arts, Music.
-## Experience with Linux, abbrv.
-### Where it all started
-I got started with GNU/Linux nearly two years ago and it was amazing. The only computer I had at the time was an Acer C710 Chromebook that I got at the beginning of 8th grade. I had this for three years before I grew tired of how limited it was. A friend told me about this thing called Linux and how I should look into seeing if I could get it on my Chromebook. He brought a USB stick to school that he said was ā€œbootableā€. I had no idea what this was but I trusted him. We turned off my Chromebook and turned it back on and he tried pressing a bunch of keys. This didnā€™t do anything. He was really confused and told me Iā€™d have to do my own research on how to install Linux. I did and, eventually, I discovered a few tutorials I could follow. I combined a couple different ones, messed with the motherboard, enabled dev mode, flashed a new BIOS, and got vanilla Ubuntu installed.
-### Distro hopping
-I had a very bad experience with this because the Acer C710 has a 1.1 GHz dual-core processor, 2 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of storage (SSD). I didnā€™t give up though and started distro hopping, looking for the most lightweight distro I could find. This eventually led me to GalliumOS, a distro built for Chromebooks. It ran well enough but I had heard of this thing called Arch that was supposed to be the ultimate. I knew I couldnā€™t install vanilla Arch so I went with ArcoLinuxD (ArchMergeD, at the time) and it was a great experience. Thatā€™s whatā€™s still on my Chromebook.
-### ā€œRealā€ computer
-Last March, a friendā€™s father got me a brand new laptop that actually works. I left Windows on it for three days then wiped it. I went with ArchLabs and loved it . . . until I tried to play some Steam games. Apparently there was a font issue with some of ArchLabsā€™ s fonts. No one was able to help so I just went for Arch. I installed Xubuntu (I like lightweight distros on powerful machines) on half the drive and worked on Arch for the other half. I tried and failed in two days the first time and succeeded in 15 minutes the next time. It took all the next day to get it set up. Iā€™m actually still on that same installation and haven't had anything break so far.
-
-If you want to contact me, check the <a href="{{ '/contact' | prepend: site.baseurl }}">Contact</a> page.