Muppets Most Wanted is one of those movies where the B plot is better than the A plot. Not that the A plot is weak—these two just steal the show.

@hal What are the first steps someone should take to start reclaiming their digital identity/privacy?

Is the SSD inside a @Start9 server user-replaceable? #asknostr

#Fountain 1.3.1 won't install from @Zapstore. I assume this is just a bad hash and not a bad app?

Time away to rest, relax, and renew is essential. Not letting that slip away when you get back is the tricky part.

It’s fun, making the world a little more connected.

“It takes 25 minutes for you to get back up to speed after an interruption.” I’ve heard that statistic for years and have been sharing it with coaching clients for just as long. I finally read the original study. It’s short—just four pages. That 25 minutes is an interesting stat. It’s not about how long it takes you to get back “in the zone” you were in before the interruption. It’s how long it takes you to calm down and destress after the interruption. Watch the short:

Don't wait until you understand everything before you do anything. Experience is a great teacher, especially when it's imperfect.

Got Amethyst installed. Now to see if it lives up to the hype. ;)

First functional hiccup: @Signal doesn’t let you link another phone, like you can an iPad or Mac. I was wanting to use Signal as my go-to messaging app on this thing, too.

Clean, minimal aesthetic. I have mixed feelings about grayscale UIs: they reduce distractions, but they reduce differentiation, too.

So far, I’ve only had to google one thing that wasn’t in the GrapheneOS install instructions: How to restart an Android phone. Sometimes, it’s the simple things.

Setting up a phone with GrapheneOS, just to see what the experience is like.

My morning routine is accurate to within 1/1000000 of a push-up.

Making the world a better place takes a low time preference.

If you want to learn to touch-type, learn to code. Programmers use the full keyboard, not just the letters.

Qwerty is a fiat layout. Customize your keyboard to suit you for low-time-preference typing.

It’s not that I want to get up at 5:00, but by the time it’s 7:00, I like having accomplished for the day everything that getting up at 5:00 lets me accomplish.

Finished this recently. Really enjoyed it. If only I could have paid for it in Bitcoin… View quoted note →

I had lots of data entry scheduled for this evening. I estimated it would take a good hour or two. Lots of it involved reformatting dates and converting currency. I started by writing a couple of Keyboard Maestro macros to rewrite the pasteboard then type out the result. ChatGPT had the macros done in no time. Copy a value from the web site, type a few characters, done. Copy, type, repeat. Took about 20 minutes. Way faster. Much easier. No mistakes. This is what low time preference looks like.