Rubenerd Blog Quiz 2025

My answers to The Rubenerd Blog Quiz 2025.

Have you ever proposed a blog quiz, or sneezed while riding a unicycle?

No.

Sweet or savory?

Sweet. Love me some chocolate, or a fancy dessert, but I kinda flip-flop between craving sweet things and savoury things.

What are three legacy consumer tech devices you’d love to see brought back into the mainstream?

• Pizza box style computers like the LC 475, SPARCstation 20, or SGI Indy. Space efficient, neat, and provided a place for your screen to go.

• Calculators. Dedicated, monochrome, instant on devices for mathematics.

• Non-smart televisions. A TV that was just a screen that showed what was fed to it by its inputs.

Do you have a lucky number, colour, or day of the week?

Nah, can't think of one.

Free space

How razorback-jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts!^[1]

What’s something you genuinely tried giving a go, but never grokked?

Nix. I get the idea behind it and the benefits, but it feels like a huge time sink and solves problems I don't seem to run into.

Do you have a favourite virtualisation tech?

KVM (via virt-manager). I like that it's built-in, powerful, and easy to use.

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever planted?

Pineapples!

What’s your favourite instrumental song? Or if you don’t have one, what’s your least favourite instrumental song? If you don’t have one, what’s your favourite instrumental song?

Wrong Love by Ralph Novell (Alphazone Remix). Perhaps not a typical instrumental song, but I like electronic music and a lot of it is instrumental in a way.

Have you lied in any of these questions?

Who could say.