I was a big fan of this book growing up, this is probably what's going to get me to take the plunge with Apple TV View quoted note →

Just started watching Snowpiercer series, and I have the same gripe as 12 Monkeys: the dictinct lack of "grime". The movies these series were based on were *grimy* AF. Bruce Willis spent most of 12 Monkeys with either visible cuts and bruises on his face, a layer of grime, or both. Same thing with Chris Evans in Snowpiercer (the movie). But then I watched the first episode of both of these series, and the actors are all perfectly clean with every hair in place. Like they just stepped off the makeup chair. #scifi

GM -- ask people what the best Linux is and you get a million answers lol For my part, I'm thinking of Fedora with stock GNOME. Not doing anything too intense, daily driver stuff, some light (scientific) simulations, HomeAssistant, maybe run a personal relay, etc. View quoted note →

Just had my daily driver laptop (Chromebook Plus) crap out on me. Pretty disappointed, less than 2 years on it... Sooo now taking the plunge to Desktop Linux! Wish me luck, I hope I can still use my printer 😆🫨

Not mentioned in this article is, considering that companies are still legal entities and therefore have to have human beings registered as part of their existence, who's the lucky guy who gets to be the "accountability sink" for when / if this thing blows up? View quoted note →

GM... The most important problems in the world right now have solutions that can't be verified with computer code.

Weekend with old friends I haven't seen in years... Sleep-deprived but soul-replenished 🙂

I'm starting to notice just how much the pace of public intellectual life seems to slow down in the summer... My RSS and podcast feeds dry up, OSS projects don't get updates, Substacks go fallow, etc... Everyone seems to be kicking it at the beach, which is nice, but I'm still stuck here hustling through major life changes. I guess, maybe next summer? 🤷

Just a reminder, heavily armed, poorly trained masked agents of the State are still out in force on US streets killing with impunity. View quoted note →

Time for Stimpaks! #starcraft View quoted note →