@jwildeboer I drink a lot of tea. 20 cups a day. I’m considering going decaf or at least better understanding whether or how I’m relying on caffeine to regulate myself
re: password manager PSA (keepassxc)
@argv_minus_one @hazelnot I quite like the global/shared menu bar approach that macOS uses, and I think KDE still supports. A bit of the best of both worlds: distinct without costing vertical real estate per window
I've been building a tiny lego set for a couple of years, I know that's weird, but I just finished it on Wednesday. This little fish tank: http://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/fish-tank-31122.
Finally I'm done! And then, this was announced: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/tropical-aquarium-10366
@babe small gods was the one that tipped me over into convincing my dad to read them (and he’s very glad I did)
New blog post: inert media, or the explotation of attention https://jmtd.net/log/inert/ #computing #vinyl
Brb writing a business case justification to present in the plan9 dev room https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/plan9/
No Java/openjdk dev room at Fosdem (for the first time in 20 years or something?)
I'm out of touch with 3d printing developments. Looked at the price of printers now and truly shocked to see the Prusa Mini+ is more than twice the price of the Bambu equivalent, and ~30% more than I paid for it a few years ago. What's going on?
I submitted my PhD thesis corrections yesterday afternoon. I am (probably) finally done!
Down to my last chapter for PhD corrections. Quite close to the wire to graduate this December. Pushing on...
@pndc oof if the SoC was 2017 vintage that would be bad even for me (I can cope on relatively low powered environments). I hadn't thought to check Ali Express. I've just seen another one on there claiming Alder Lake (2021?) for ~$333 which doesn't seem quite as bad for a toy. Thanks for your input!
There’s a whole load of these tiny 7” Celeron laptops on Amazon and other places from random-name-generator vendors. Has anyone tried Linux on them?
So yeah various blog stuff broke, some is still broken, my new SSLLabs score is only a B, etc.: all this will be addressed eventually.
I recently migrated my blog to a new VM. In times gone by, I would have taken pride in doing a professional job of that, but in recent times I’ve increasingly wanted to do stuff *less professionally* when it’s hobby versus day job. The same principle applies to hobby coding, not that I get much of that done at the moment, but that has more interesting consequences.
@mart_brooks @slp that’s a good point. Despite all its other shortcomings, it’s the narrative elements of ffe that make it compelling to me
@mart_brooks @slp one of them that I’ve really never got on with (and iirc you did) is elite: dangerous