Re-shell attempt number two went a bit better. I managed to install the screen hinges correctly, and the quality of the shell is quite a bit higher. Maybe still not OEM level, but at least now it doesn’t feel awful to hold and use!

I haven’t used our photo printer in ~6 months, and in that time it seems to have spontaneously died? Super reasonable…

TIL if you want to suppress the grub boot menu on a dual boot Ubuntu install, you need to use a workaround and set GRUB_TIMEOUT=0.1

It is quite neat to be able to make apps in Swift Playgrounds, it makes the iPad Pro feel more like a Proper Computer

Looks like if you want to have functional Rust auto complete in the snap version of VS Code, you need to install the rust-analyzer snap. The regular Rust extension does not work. The joys of sandboxing…

Past me: Oh, I’ll just pop the extra m.2 NVMe module I have into my ThinkPad. Present me: Well that’s not going to work, is it…

My friend was kind enough to give back my first C64 after losing interest in it. Feels very sentimental

TOO LAME FOR THE PINEBOOK PRO

Sometime in summer 2020, I got it into my head that it would be a good idea to buy a PINEBOOK Pro, a laptop made to run open source software. I had a lot of free time because of the pandemic, and it felt like a good opportunity to get back into Linux. It also felt like a good idea to have a computing device that I controlled with the bizarre political situation in the US (not claiming this was rational, but it was definitely on my mind at the time.

Coming to the conclusion I’m not cool enough for a distro more advanced than Ubuntu. Just don’t have the energy to tinker these days

Need to get the analog board of my Mac Plus serviced, it’s gotten to the point that it needs percussive encouragement to start each time

Gees why do toaster naan only last 3 days out of the package before they go moldy?

Ugh, missed two appointments in a row. Hard to balance the demands of work and family sometimes 😑

Thanksgiving: The holiday of boundless dirty dishes 🍽🦃

Kind of crazy that USB-C has been a thing long enough that I have a pile of too many spare chargers

I went to the New England Quilt Museum to see their COVID-19 exhibition, and wow. I don’t think I’ve ever connected with art on such a deep level. Seeing our shared experience – worry, uncertainty, boredom – was so powerful. It was hard not to weep

My creative battery has reached 0% and I’m not even sure what to do to recharge 😤

CHANGE

I am here, in this moment, in this place. Brought here, as I often am, by a reminder that all is of the nature of change. That all those I love, all that I care about, shall someday be dust, entropy. My mind, my heart, so desperately wish to control, to stop time. As though holding the world in place would ease the suffering, cure the pain. But it is impossible.

Something I miss about living on the west coast is how the terrain makes you feel small. I’m thankful that the ocean can give the same feeling. It’s helpful to keep perspective

I dozed off at the dentist today while getting a filling, I think I’m approaching peak parenthood 😪

Haven’t worked in customer service for nearly a decade, still have automatic phone voice 💁‍♂️📞

Coffee maker is dead, great way to start the day ugh