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Veronica Explains
Personal blog · vkc.shcultureproductivity
Veronica Explains is a personal blog at vkc.sh about culture and productivity. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Veronica Explains posts Linux tutorials, such as one on Remmina and running Linux on a Chromebook, plus pieces on leaving social platforms like Twitter and Mastodon. One commenter found a Remmina tutorial useful.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Linux mom, vintage tech enthusiast, nerdy musician. YouTuber/PeerTuber. Plays Bop-It at a competitive level.
What Hacker News says?
Thats what it looks like, but then you realise that the author has done this again and again and doesnt really seem to learn anything each time. https://vkc.sh/another-lady-left-twitter/
Comment linking /another-lady-left-twitter/
on “I'm closing up shop on my Mastodon for the foreseeable future”Submitted I'm closing up shop on my Mastodon for the foreseeable future as a story · 65 points
HN discussionVeronica Explains (PeerTube, YouTube, and https://vkc.sh/ ) has a tutorial on Remmina I found useful.
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on “Remmina – Remote access screen and file sharing to desktop”Submitted Everyday rsync as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYeah, I don't think it should be the one that succeeded, but it was and I think that opportunity is over now, sadly. Chromebooks don't seem to last very long. There are ways to make a Chromebook run Linux -- https://vkc.sh/linux-on-a-chromebook-but-interesting-er/ -- but I doubt a lot of this was of interest to the vast majority of people using a Chromebook. Windows is for gamers. macOS is for creatives. Both appeal…
Comment linking /linux-on-a-chromebook-but-interesting-er/
on “The year of Linux on the desktop, and why we can't have nice things”Submitted I quit search engines for three months as a story · 3 points
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