I was looking for something to write about, but instead spent some time reading. “You know what,” I thought, “let me just post what I have open on my browser right now.” Good idea, me. Let’s call this “In the Tabs”:
- The NASA picture of the day of Jupiter is nice. I love the colors. Wallpaper material.
- Manton interviewed the maker of Kagi search engine, which I use every day. Turns out he kinda has his own irregular podcast of sorts, Timetable.
- (via irreal): Awesome Emacs on macOS from the guy who made one of my currently favorite apps, Journelly. When he talks Emacs, I listen, or er, read.
- The New Yorker has an appropriate cartoon about Musk leaving Doge. Good riddance.
- Manuel is frustrated and has stuff to say on Browsers, AI, and the web. He got a point. Several of them actually, as he usually does. Worth a read.
My partner knows me apparently, and has sent me an owl treatment. Warning: this site may cause you to go “awww” and “omg how cute!”
Some instances of loud laughter are also known to happen. Treat with caution.
Owls in Towels owlsintowels.org
They’re on BlueSky too.
Moved my bed and now I have standing room near the window where I can stand and hold my coffee mug and look outside. ☕
Ten minutes of morning peace can change your entire morning. All you need to do is to drag something out of the way.
Spotted on a weather appreciation walk. 📷
I’ve been looking more in depth about the issues on my Linux desktop, and so far I managed to fix two things.
First, there was the issue the computer would take about a minute to shutdown. Systemd was waiting on a process to respond, and it didn’t. It seemed that disconnecting from my old Mac Mini, which I keep online mostly for storage, resolved this problem—no more hang-ups.
The second issue, which is Emacs-specific, was the result of my laziness: I installed Emacs from a flatpak (I know, I know, what was I thinking). As a result, a few things didn’t work right. After installing it from savannah.gnu.org as I should and building it, it works as it should… kind of. There’s still the odd font issue where it doesn’t pick up italics, but I think I have a workaround.
Next, I need to clean a couple of libraries that are taking up space on my hard drive, and probably a few more games I’m not really playing. First, I need to have a good backup.
Instead of wiping my Linux desktop this morning, I started looking into the individual problems I have. Already making progress – the reason it was hanging in shutdown and taking 30 seconds to turn off, for example, was a network share I should have dismounted.
Keep PopOS, or go back to Mint?
While I’m overall happy with my Thelio Mira, it has been collecting “issues” to the point that I think of wiping it and starting fresh. To be fair, this is probably my fault for installing and downloading different libraries and half-baked programs without giving it a second thought, and basically being a bad Linux citizen.
I feel I miss Linux Mint. Mint (especially Cinnamon) is more polished and finished than PopOS’s desktop environment. While it comes with a nice window management snapping system, I never got quite used to it and found that the keyboard shortcuts don’t always work. It’s… fine, it does the job, but it’s not a feature I absolutely must have. I know System76 is working on Cosmic, but it’s still in alpha.
I do use this computer mainly for gaming. Popos comes with an application “Store” that has Steam and NVIDIA drivers ready to install, but when you have experience tweaking games to work on Linux you go get what you need yourself rather than rely on a store that tends to break when you installed said drivers and has you working in terminal to fix what it broke.
On the other hand, PopOS does feel more snappy, and things install and run on it quickly. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles Mint does, but I’m not sure I need those. Besides, Mint has its own share of problems too; I know nostalgia plays a part in this as well.
Tampopo, 1985 - ★★★
A fun movie. I haven't watched enough Japanese films to know if the style of parallel plots happening here is classic, or something unique to this film, but it works.
It's a comedy dipped with serious food passion (some sexual food-related scenes emphasize that), which centers around ramen noodles. The reason I picked this movie up in the first place is that its first scene is set in a ramen noodle restaurant, which is called - of course - Tampopo.
There's a bit too much women-cliche-gender role in this movie, but it is from the 80s and it is from a more traditional cinema, so that didn't surprise me; still, it was a bit annoying that they had to slap that "a woman chef! amazing!" thing at the end.
Coffee time.
I woke up wondering about .org-id-locations. You know, that Emacs file that keeps track of all of your org-mode IDs. How does it know where are the headers in the files it refers to? Is there a size limit? Can I use a different file (or files) if I want to for the hell of it?
What?? Don’t look at me like that. I often think about Emacs just before I fall asleep and when I wake up. Don’t you?
Many apps I used to install with apt now seem to prefer AppImage. I understand AppImages are easy to use and are always up to date, but it doesn’t seem like a good blanket solution for everything.