A fox with a blog, that rambles about tech, games, and life.https://hack13.me/https://hack13.me/blog/2026/07/common-ground-is-lost/https://hack13.me/blog/2026/07/common-ground-is-lost/So I have been reading a lot of stuff online lately, and feeling the age verification arguments with the concerns over privacy, having to prove your age stuff. There is a lot to dig into here, and I feel it is important to kind of share my...Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:45:00 GMTPersonalOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2026/04/online-privacy-age-verification/https://hack13.me/blog/2026/04/online-privacy-age-verification/So I have been reading a lot of stuff online lately, and feeling the age verification arguments with the concerns over privacy, having to prove your age stuff. There is a lot to dig into here, and I feel it is important to kind of share my...Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:45:00 GMTPersonalOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2026/03/online-privacy-age-verification/https://hack13.me/blog/2026/03/online-privacy-age-verification/So I have been reading a lot of stuff online lately, and feeling the age verification arguments with the concerns over privacy, having to prove your age stuff. There is a lot to dig into here, and I feel it is important to kind of share my...Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTPersonalOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2026/02/decentralization-and-fracturing/https://hack13.me/blog/2026/02/decentralization-and-fracturing/So I am 33 years old now, and I been on the internet since I was like 10. I have seen big and small services spin up and die over the past few years of my life, and yeah, that is what time does. However, I think some of it is sadly driven...Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTPersonalOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2026/01/embracing-change/https://hack13.me/blog/2026/01/embracing-change/It has been almost a month since I moved from using the Mac as my daily driver back to Linux. This led me to swap distros and desktop environments, trying to find where I would land. There’s a lot to cover, and with my goal of one blog post a month, this felt like the perfect time to write something here...Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:45:00 GMTPersonalOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2025/12/forcing-change/https://hack13.me/blog/2025/12/forcing-change/Well, I am so tired of following down the rabbit hole of chasing the latest and greatest tech. I also realize some platforms play on me more, which drives me to spend more money. So, to try and stop myself, I am forcing myself to make a change for not platform reasons, but to get me to stop spending money…Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTPersonalOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2025/08/month-on-win11/https://hack13.me/blog/2025/08/month-on-win11/So it has been about a month since I moved to trying Windows as my daily driver. I have to say, it hasn't been all bad, but I have noticed what I do with my computer had changed a lot based on what machine I was on. Starting out...Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTPersonalOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2025/07/back-on-windows/https://hack13.me/blog/2025/07/back-on-windows/Well, it happened. I was really enjoying my kick on Linux for some time, and I even switched my custom-built system to Linux, which I was really enjoying. Games were running smoothly; I was enjoying the stability and the familiarity of navigating the system, without advertisements being shoved in my face...Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTPersonalOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2025/05/macos-temptations-linger/https://hack13.me/blog/2025/05/macos-temptations-linger/So, being on Linux again, and writing my blog post recently about how I've been enjoying the platform.... I have realized it is slowly eating away at me a little by little for certain things, mainly around creative products for video editing...Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTPersonalOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2025/04/being-back-on-linux/https://hack13.me/blog/2025/04/being-back-on-linux/So, I have forced myself back on Linux, as the best way to get myself to drive it on my desktop daily is to switch to it for my daily driver. I started driving daily on my mini PC...Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTPersonalhttps://hack13.me/blog/2025/03/finding-my-new-email-solution/https://hack13.me/blog/2025/03/finding-my-new-email-solution/So, it is finally time to renew my email subscription. However, with money being tight and things not being very straightforward anymore, I want to start reconsidering what provider I will use and how I plan to set it up. There are a few key...Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTPersonalEmailhttps://hack13.me/blog/2025/03/already-failed/https://hack13.me/blog/2025/03/already-failed/Well, it was supposed to be a compelling year for me to try and make some changes and be a bit more of someone who worked towards doing things I wanted to do. However, I have already failed. What do I mean by that? Well...Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTPersonalMental Healthhttps://hack13.me/blog/2025/01/getting-lost-in-once-human/https://hack13.me/blog/2025/01/getting-lost-in-once-human/So I am someone who doesnt really get into games that much, but I recently got invited to an early access game that has gotten mixed reactions from the public. I will admit, I did in the beginning agree that wow, this game just seems...Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTPersonalMental HealthGaminghttps://hack13.me/blog/2025/01/a-no-buy-year/https://hack13.me/blog/2025/01/a-no-buy-year/So I am dealing with a with the issue of a form of "Retail Therapy" that I been doing over the past year. This has pushed me into debt, nothing I cannot get myself out of but... I shouldn't have gotten myself into in the first place...Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTPersonalMental HealthFediverseSocial Mediahttps://hack13.me/blog/2024/08/ai-changing-the-internet/https://hack13.me/blog/2024/08/ai-changing-the-internet/So I moved from HUGO to WordPress so I could handle just writing posts again, and have an easier way to handling it. That said, WordPress is great, but with the new stuff Automattic is doing kinda starting to rub me the wrong way and...Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTOpinionSSGAstroWordPressHUGOhttps://hack13.me/blog/2024/08/own-your-content/https://hack13.me/blog/2024/08/own-your-content/So I have been wanting to write up and talk about this for a while, I feel the need to talk about this because too much content is getting removed or kicked off of other platforms due to provider policy changes. By this I mean creators I...Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTOpinionResourceshttps://hack13.me/blog/2024/05/positivity-content/https://hack13.me/blog/2024/05/positivity-content/So I will admit I am a bit of a person who enjoys shorts on all the major platforms, sites like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and of course the shorts people post to the Fediverse. That said, there is one type of content that I have been happy to see and felt...Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTOpinionShortsYouTubeTikTokhttps://hack13.me/blog/2024/05/onto-astro/https://hack13.me/blog/2024/05/onto-astro/So I moved from HUGO to WordPress so I could handle just writing posts again, and have an easier way to handling it. That said, WordPress is great, but with the new stuff Automattic is doing kinda starting to rub me the wrong way and...Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTOpinionSSGAstroWordPressHUGOhttps://hack13.me/blog/2024/02/leaving-apples-ecosystem/https://hack13.me/blog/2024/02/leaving-apples-ecosystem/So, I have been a Linux user for years before moving to Apple’s Ecosystem slowly. I started with the iPhone but used to bounce back and forth with no absolute loyalty between Android and iPhone.Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTOpinionMobileiOSAndroidhttps://hack13.me/blog/2023/12/mff-2023-fedi-panel/https://hack13.me/blog/2023/12/mff-2023-fedi-panel/It was a major blast being able to run a panel at MFF, it allowed me to meet up with several others and spread the word about how wonderful the Fediverse actually is.Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTActivityPubMFFPanelVideohttps://hack13.me/blog/2023/09/perspectives/https://hack13.me/blog/2023/09/perspectives/So I am so upset lately that people are considering things that have connections to crypto as immediately bad or a scam. However, I don’t want to say I don’t completely understand why everyone and their...Sat, 16 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTCryptohttps://hack13.me/blog/2023/05/perspectives/https://hack13.me/blog/2023/05/perspectives/First, after reading a post from CyberKitsune on the Fediverse about the controversial take of not hating hard on all corporations, I feel compelled. With that, I also agree with that thought process.Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 GMTPersonalhttps://hack13.me/blog/2023/05/decentralized-protocols/https://hack13.me/blog/2023/05/decentralized-protocols/There is a lot of stuff going on in the decentralized space lately, and I am excited about it. However, with tons of these protocols coming up, it is getting plagued by so many people suffering from the same old issue...Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 GMTActivityPubFediverseSocial Mediahttps://hack13.me/blog/2023/01/ownership-of-data/https://hack13.me/blog/2023/01/ownership-of-data/It's been a bit since I have written anything. This is an excellent opportunity to talk about the stuff I have been doing lately. That being switching away from using things like pCloud, Microsoft365/OneDrive, and iCloud.Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTCloudStoragehttps://hack13.me/blog/2022/05/continuing-to-find-myself/https://hack13.me/blog/2022/05/continuing-to-find-myself/Hi there... I have been struggling with my identity lately... and I been scared about it. The reason I am scared? To put it bluntly, cancel culture and the people who are very harsh gate keeping...Sun, 08 May 2022 00:00:00 GMTEnbyTranshttps://hack13.me/blog/2022/04/neosvr-event-hosting/https://hack13.me/blog/2022/04/neosvr-event-hosting/So in case you had no idea, I assisted with hosting the back-end of a NeosVR event this past weekend. It was great, but it was a very short notice event, I jumped in and volunteered as I saw the event organizer starting to get overwhelmed with just how big their event got.Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMTPersonalNeosVRResonitehttps://hack13.me/blog/2022/02/nft-polarization/https://hack13.me/blog/2022/02/nft-polarization/So it is crazy to me how polarized people seem to be over NFT’s these days, and crypto in general...Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMTCryptohttps://hack13.me/blog/2022/02/struggling-with-anxiety/https://hack13.me/blog/2022/02/struggling-with-anxiety/So I am sorry I haven’t been good lately, I am not ok and I know a lot of people are not ok lately. I know that a lot of people in my personal and professional life look up to me.Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMTPersonalMental Healthhttps://hack13.me/blog/2021/10/cloudflare-workers-and-pages/https://hack13.me/blog/2021/10/cloudflare-workers-and-pages/It sure has been a while since I have posted anything here on my blog... that said you might have realized that the site has changed and maybe even noticed it might be a tad bit faster for you.Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTResourcesPersonalCloudflarehttps://hack13.me/blog/2019/01/speeding-up-zadaroo-files/https://hack13.me/blog/2019/01/speeding-up-zadaroo-files/As some people may know, I host Zadaroo from an agreement with the original owner that I would continue to host it for as long as I can. Which I believe will be a long time, as it isn't that expensive to host.Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTCDNCloudflareWasabihttps://hack13.me/blog/2019/01/2019-goals/https://hack13.me/blog/2019/01/2019-goals/So it has been a while since I have written anything on this site, or let alone touched it. So I have decided to give it a bit of a refresh and set some new goals for 2019 to try and meet. With that said, I want to thank you for taking a peek back at my site after a year of nothing new.Sat, 26 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTPersonalhttps://hack13.me/blog/2018/02/whats-next-for-tim/https://hack13.me/blog/2018/02/whats-next-for-tim/I had a lot of fun working with OpenSimulator over the past few years, it was fun but I have got a more demanding job and new skills to acquire for that job that now just take up far more time than I have to work on anything OpenSimulator.Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMTPersonalhttps://hack13.me/blog/2018/01/taking-control-of-my-cloud-storage/https://hack13.me/blog/2018/01/taking-control-of-my-cloud-storage/So I have been someone who has been working with a lot of sync services over the years. Dropbox, Mega, Google Drive, and even open source solutions like Seafile, OwnCloud/NextCloud, and Sparkle Share.Sun, 14 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTOpinionResourceshttps://hack13.me/blog/2018/01/where-has-tim-been/https://hack13.me/blog/2018/01/where-has-tim-been/Well, it has been a while since I have been around. I have deleted some of my social media presence because it is needed for how I been feeling. For those who do not know, I work as my primary job these days a UNIX/Linux System Administrator.Sat, 06 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTPersonalhttps://hack13.me/blog/2016/01/modern-inworldz-website/https://hack13.me/blog/2016/01/modern-inworldz-website/I just really want to take a step back and say I was really happy to see the new site by InWorldz. It looks very nice, however I only have one complaint... When launching a new theme, I would really like to see it implemented throughout before released to the public...Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTOpinionOpenSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2016/01/moved-to-wordpress/https://hack13.me/blog/2016/01/moved-to-wordpress/I have decided to move to WordPress after a long time of inactivity on my personal blog. I just feel there is not a real nice place to get OpenSim related news on the internet anymore, other then people's personal blogs and the blogs themselves of other grids.Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTPersonalhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/11/why-i-dont-use-the-cloud/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/11/why-i-dont-use-the-cloud/I have been asked a couple times why I don't want to build Zetamex off the cloud, and well the biggest answer is that the cloud is not really right for the old fashioned and classic usage of opensimulator.Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenSimOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/09/i-apologzie-to-kitely-dont-be-fooled/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/09/i-apologzie-to-kitely-dont-be-fooled/I want to start out this by saying I am only human, hell I know I make more mistakes than most people I know. I admit this and never claim to be perfect, and I most certainly will not say I know what I am doing unless I do.Thu, 19 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpinionOpenSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/09/my-response-to-kitely-marketplace/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/09/my-response-to-kitely-marketplace/Alright I know right now everyone has been all over this we need to embrace the Kitely Marketplace thing for a while now. However that being said, I want to take to the side and take some notes at some...Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenSimOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/08/depression/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/08/depression/Well I never thought the day would come when I would say that I feel depressed with my work, well I been this way quite a bit lately. Work is getting harder and harder to keep up with lately, not due to being over extended, just that Zetamex seems to be falling behind lately.Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMTPersonalhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/06/upset-with-stiffled-innovation/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/06/upset-with-stiffled-innovation/I am constantly hearing about all these people stiffing innovation, well today I had the last straw I could take. Before I begin, I want to make sure say this boldly and clearly.Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMTOpenSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/04/my-clocks-are-ticking/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/04/my-clocks-are-ticking/Well it has been a while since I have written on my personal blog again. However I have been feeling a little down lately and I think I need to write to pick up my spirits a bit again.Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTPersonalhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/04/moving-up-around/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/04/moving-up-around/It has been one hell of a past month, I have had to deal with a lot of drama in my real personal life. Sometimes I wish we could all just live in virtual worlds, but drama would just pile up their too...Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTPersonalhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/03/closed-vs-open-really/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/03/closed-vs-open-really/I am dealing with a lot of people getting stressed over the debate of if grids should all be open or at least have hypergrid open. I am just going to put this out there, there are tons of people who want everything free in life, and never want to pay for anything.Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:03:00 GMTOpenSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/03/why-i-closed-aurorascape/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/03/why-i-closed-aurorascape/I first want to thank everyone who was on AuroraScape, and I have to apologize to all of you. I know the life of AuroraScape was short but there are multiple reasons to this, and I mean no ill intent to the developers of Aurora by what I have to say in this blog.Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMTAuroraSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/02/who-is-timothy-vyperhoxleyrogers/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/02/who-is-timothy-vyperhoxleyrogers/I just keep reading all this stuff about all these other grids, and the people who have influences there. Now that I am a grid owner, been making myself know more and more over the past year with all the things I have started. Grid-Press, SoftPaw Estates, Zetamex, and my latest AuroraScape.Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTPersonalhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/02/top-10-reasons-not-to-give-up-on-aurora-sim/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/02/top-10-reasons-not-to-give-up-on-aurora-sim/I am very sad to see so many people tell me that I should give up on Aurora-Sim, and that it is a waste. I think it is mostly been placed there because people remember its biggest tank, and the failure of Nova Grid.Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTAuroraSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/02/needing-rest/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/02/needing-rest/It sure has been a long first 20 days, I can't believe how far all of us have come. Yes after the upgrade happened, we lost a nice chunk of regions, but I am sure we will be getting them back soon. All I can say is I am taking a few steps back for the next few days, from grid upgrades.Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTAuroraSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/02/thank-you/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/02/thank-you/Thank You AuroraScape CommunityWed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTAuroraSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2013/02/explaining-opensim-memory-usage/https://hack13.me/blog/2013/02/explaining-opensim-memory-usage/I have had a couple people ask me to show them some tips and show them how to conserve memory usage in OpenSim. So I am going to be using sim-on-a-stick for today's tips and tricks...Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMTResourcesOpenSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2012/12/new-years-resolutions/https://hack13.me/blog/2012/12/new-years-resolutions/It is that time of the year, when people start making New Year Resolutions. Well I have never really made any other than once for a class assignment. But this year I really think I need to make some real resolutions. So I thought I would post them here on my personal blog for everyone to read and be aware.Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTPersonalhttps://hack13.me/blog/2012/08/battle-of-business-vs-opensource/https://hack13.me/blog/2012/08/battle-of-business-vs-opensource/Alright lately I have been getting overwhelmed with all the drama of the oldest argument in the world of internet technologies. So who should win? Big business or opensource projects? Well the answer is simple, THE ARE NOT AT WAR!!!!Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMTOpenSimOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2012/07/lil-about-me/https://hack13.me/blog/2012/07/lil-about-me/Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMTVentOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2012/07/finding-my-place/https://hack13.me/blog/2012/07/finding-my-place/SoftPaw Estates is starting to really kick off and do quite well for itself. Clients are already telling me that they love the service...Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMTOpenSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2012/06/timothys-thoughts/https://hack13.me/blog/2012/06/timothys-thoughts/I have to admit lately, I have been quite depressed about a lot of things in RL. I have not let effect my work...Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMTOpenSimAuroraSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2012/05/coming-changes/https://hack13.me/blog/2012/05/coming-changes/Old post about spending time in OSGridSat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 GMTOpenSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2012/04/we-have-hypergrid-use-it/https://hack13.me/blog/2012/04/we-have-hypergrid-use-it/It is starting to sadden me, I have slowly become aware of things, that I rather not have come into knowing...Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTOpenSimOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2012/04/my-take-on-opensim-grids/https://hack13.me/blog/2012/04/my-take-on-opensim-grids/I am tired of all the fighting over virtual worlds, I mean mainly the OpenSim grids...Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTOpenSimOpinionhttps://hack13.me/blog/2012/04/my-vision-of-the-hypergrid/https://hack13.me/blog/2012/04/my-vision-of-the-hypergrid/I have been thinking for a long time, and you know I think I have my idea of how I really want Cyber Wrld...Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTPersonalOpenSimhttps://hack13.me/blog/2012/04/been-a-while/https://hack13.me/blog/2012/04/been-a-while/It has been quite a while since I have posted some updates to this old blog of mine...Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTPersonalhttps://hack13.me/blog/2010/06/new-blog/https://hack13.me/blog/2010/06/new-blog/This is the very first post ever on this blogTue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTOpenSim