# Certificate changes and random winter thoughts

2021-01-18

We finally got some actual winter-weather. The lake is frozen and there
is snow that will stay on the ground for at least a few days at a time.
Me and a few friends were out ice-skating, and it was a really nice day
to do so.

In other news, I've been spending some time and money on upgrading my
computer setup. My monitor died on me, and I got two new ones and a arm
to hold them at the same time, so that they can be easily adjusted. The
difference is like night and day. My old monitor was something like 7
years old by now, so maybe it would have been time to upgrade soon
anyway, but it always pains me a bit to replace something that still
works.

I've also spent a little time on this gemini-server and generated a new
certificate so that I won't have to change it all the time (like with
the let's encrypt certs I've used before).  Since the consensus in
geminispace seems to be that you use self-signed certs on account of the
TOFU-system that is used, it's a bit of a hassle to have to make
exceptions every three months when the LE-certs are due for renewal.
Hopefully this will make it a bit nicer to use this site from now on.

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