That’s the last straw! From now on I’m only drinking beer.

What site is that?

Just asking so I know what to avoid.

Don’t forget Ezekiel 23:20-21

She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse. And so, Oholibah, you relived your former days as a young girl in Egypt, when you first allowed your breasts to be fondled.

I’m no connoisseur, but I just want the same feel as I had back in the 90s. No terminal emulator, straight up tty with crisp VGA ROM fonts at some hacky SuperVGA resolution. Before the virtual framebuffer that basically every computer today uses for tty.

Konsole, gnome-terminal and ghostty can all be made to feel right to me. I’m giving ghostty a spin, and I like how it supports custom shaders so I can make it feel even more like home.

Sweet! Tempo is the best subsonic client I’ve found for Android. Hoping to use it for a long time.

It’s a protocol for hosting music libraries.

Think of it like your personal Spotify backend.

I’m running navidrome to serve music to tempo on my devices.

I’ve worked from home for a long time, but before that I used to get my workout by riding my bike to the office.

20 minutes is just enough to wake you up for the day, rain, shine or snow.

Sure, it performed “fine”.

But it was sluggish compared to the VGA ttys we were used to.

Now, if we can have something as snappy and at the same time as pretty as Eterm… 👌

He doesn’t have that kind of money.

He owns stock valued at insane prices. No one will buy 6B worth of stocks. Trying to crank it out on the open exchanges would make the value dive.

I stayed in a capsule like that on an overnight ferry when all the cabins were booked. It beats sleeping in a recliner seat.

My wife had a hard time sleeping because of someone snoring loudly in the capsule next to her, but I slept like a log.

everybody hates snaps because canonical owns it

We like of like things to be open so that we can review, or replace. The snap store is proprietary and controlled by canonical. I don’t want my data collected and subject to canonical’s EULA when using my choice of distro.

Canonical has a hisory of doing bad choices, so the level of trust is not very high. It feels like an attempt at embrace, extend, extinguish. Get people hooked on snaps and then make snaps suck on other distros kind of thing.

Finnish guy here, as well. I went to school in the 90s and the subtext was always that the local Lucia would be a blonde girl. We’d have one for our school, the town, and the country.

The mythical Lucia was burned at a stake, and I guess those flames both translated to the crown of candles that she wears as well as blonde hair. The mythical Lucia most likely looked pretty Hispanic.

I think the current Lucia wears the crown well, and the response has been that the charity organising it has received several times the donations it usually gets. I think we’ll need to wait another generation to get rid of the racist pushback.

The decision is made. It just takes a while for the 27 countries to get their local legislation up to speed. Many haven’t decided whether they’d want to be on standard time or +1. There’s some business advantage to being on the same timezone as your neighbors.

And then software manufacturers need some heads up to get their shit together.

Is it really practical in 2024? I used pine as my sole e-mail client for many years.

In the last 15 years it feels like every mail expects the client to be able to render html, with no real fallback for text-only. Even when my client only blocks remote images some mail can be quite hard to decipher.

Company handbook even requires me to have a html signature with a picture of the company logo… before that I’ve militantly only sent text-only e-mail.

The EU parliament had a vote to abolish DST, and it passed. They just forgot to hammer out the details, then COVID and Ukraine happened, so focus shifted.

I hope they’ll pick up the ball again at some point.

When I was a kid, we played pacman. A literal puck who eats pixels and takes turns chasing ghosts. We turned out fine.

It’s not like that’s what caused us to go to rave parties, listen to beepy music and pop ecstacy pills.

It’s complicated. https://blogs.kde.org/2024/10/09/cursor-size-problems-in-wayland-explained/

The EU has strict climate goals to push away from fossil fuels. The current goal is to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars by 2035.

The fuel here contains a bit more renewables, which also costs more o produce. Still, more than half of the cost of fuel is tax. They had a nice tax break for buying a new electric car for a while, but that window has passed.

Over in Sweden it would be hard to replicate these results. Gasoline is ~18SEK/l ($7.5 per gallon).

My electricity production cost changes by the hour, so I can steer my cost by charging when it’s costs are low. Taxes and transfer costs give me a minimum of about $0.07/kWh. A smart charger that picks when to charge based on price can probably average you a cost of $0.10/kWh over the year.