Rose

Turtle robot! 🐢🤖 Cutest robots of them all. Very programmer friendly. Very artistic.

I see no problems with cooking meals with sunlight. (…as we say here in the solarpunk instance)

However, I do see the practical limitations what comes to attempting to cook meals with sunlight in the UK. I have heard the weather is often not favourable.

Dunno, I saw GNOME 3 run like molasses on my PC, went “ok, this might be lost cause”, went with LXDE and then XFCE, and now I’m like “if it’s a beefy proper PC I’ll go with KDEPlasma and if it’s, like, very obsolete system I’ll, dunno, go with XFCE”.

GNOME is just opinionated. I get it, it was kinda vaguely modeled after Mac OS, which is kinda an opinionated desktop environment, but the thing is, it’s even more opinionated than Mac OS ever was. The thing about (early!) Mac OS X was “hey, we have this slick desktop environment but also some power user features you might want to use. But we’re not forcing you to!” (Kinda like GNOME 2!) …GNOME has been kinda sweeping those under the rug, in my opinion.

I use Debian 13 on my shitty junk desktop computer.

Problem is, it has VGA and DisplayPort, and my monitor only has a DisplayPort input, and all of the bootup shit defaults to the VGA. No way to change it in the BIOS as far as I can tell.

I installed my favourite GRUB theme, such a great tool to manage my depression (it was a great way to start the day on my work laptop back when I had work), but I never actually get to see GRUB menu on this system. 🙁

(Someone on the interweb:) “Hey, you should try KDE Connect”

(Me:) Uh, I don’t use Linux on my laptop and that’s the computer that I use the most

(S:) “Well it also runs on Windows.”

(Me:) Really?.. Holy sh- HOLY SHIT, this is so much better than every shitty cloud sync package, and that Google app they keep renaming every time I look at it so I can’t remember what it’s called this week

In this episode of “are the straights okay”, we get yet another troubling crumb of information: No. I allege some of them are very much not okay. Some of them aren’t thinking. Not doing the think before they do whatever they do.

Easiest way to avoid formatting the list is to put a backslash before the dot:

12345\. Blah blah...

This was a common problem in Reddit in NaNoWriMo when people posted their daily wordcounts and what they had been doing.

Chud: “There are some who seem to be ignorant of my ancestry. As I have subtly hinted for some time, the answer should be very clear: very European.”

Europeans: “…We’re kindly requesting you should never set foot on our beautiful continent. Thank you.”

At this point, I can only say one thing fairly confidently:

We’re certainly living in a timeline

I’m always like “du shows disk usage of files, and df shows how much of disk is free”.

Linus was a bit of a trendsetter what comes to standing desks. In an interview he also commented on the walls, saying the paint colour is also used in mental institutions because it has a very calming effect on the human mind. (Goodness knows Linus needs all the chill he can muster.)

I’ve found them useful for very broad level stuff (e.g. asking “I’m trying to do X in programming language Y, are there any libraries for that and can you give me an example”). Copilot has been good at giving me broad guesses at why my stuff isn’t working.

But you have to be very careful with any code they spit out. And they sometimes suggest some really stupid stuff. (Don’t know how to set up a C/C++ build environment for some library on Windows? Don’t worry, the AI is even more confused than you are.)

I’m an amateur writer. One of the worldbuilding things I wanted to explore for my fantasy/steampunk word was the fact that the life of vampires who originate from commoner class must really suck, pun very much intended. You’d end up as a “high functioning” undead who gets even the few rights you previously had stripped from you. Fertile ground for social commentary.

So in this setting there’s an autonomous vampire state that’s essentially communist. In other nations, vampires are, if not persecuted outright, at least constantly struggling for recognition, and are exploited as night shift workers in the emerging industry.

I wish I could find the urban fantasy story that inspired me to explore this. It was also based on the “hey, not all vampires live glorious lifestyles” premise. I think this was in some Humble Bundle.