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A month with Journelly

I’ve been using Journelly for a month and have established a workflow. Here are the details, especially the integration between Journelly and Emacs.

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I’m so used to watch movies on my computer, I didn’t think getting a new TV would be that much of a difference, but I just got a Sony BRAVIA X90L and boy…

We just watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The depth of the black colors, the sharpness, and the enjoyment of watching it on a big screen… it was /fun/. The movie and the experience. The next upgrade is a Bluetooth hub, so we can have two headphones connected at the same time. This is a smart TV that can stream from my Synology (through my phone), no problem. It has the apps for Netflix, Prime, and Apple TV installed. I’m going to have a lot of fun with this one.

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I don’t like Outlook, but I have to use it. I’m trying to integrate it with my other email accounts once more, to have less email craziness going on. We’ll see what happens.

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The Shrouds, 2024 - ★★★

I watched this one last night, but it was hard to follow. Not what I expected it to be. I am holding full judgment until I see it again and watch the details more carefully.

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On Linux, I now use Pop!_OS, which is dark by default. I find that ef-deuteranopia-dark looks better with my theme there. Meanwhile, on the Mac, ef-frost works for the light theme and ef-night for the dark theme.

Here’s what I do to make this as automatic as possible (F8 is mapped as the key to guggle from light to dark when on the Mac). These are Prot’s EF themes, including the function to switch.

    (cond 
     ((eq system-type 'gnu/linux)
      (ef-themes-select 'ef-deuteranopia-dark)
      )
     ((eq system-type 'darwin)
       (mapc #'disable-theme custom-enabled-themes)
       (ef-themes-select 'ef-frost)
       (setq ef-themes-to-toggle '(ef-frost ef-night))
       )
     )
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Captured this guy this weekend 📷. We’re enjoying “hunting” birds: Nat identifies them using the Merlin app, and I try to capture them with the camera. It’s not easy, and I’m rusty, but it’s fun!

Auto-generated description: A small bird is perched on a tree branch surrounded by budding leaves.
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I really enjoyed Silo. Season 2 ended with a lot of open questions and half-answers, can’t wait for season 3. Seems like Apple TV is the new HBO?

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Today in On This Day, I wrote about my attempts to leave Arc Browser after using it both for work and personal stuff for a couple of months. I thought their days were numbered, but they’re still around, and as far as I can tell, enjoy a thriving community of users.

Overall, I’m still more comfortable using three browsers for my three categories of web surfing: Edge for work, Safari for personal, and LibreWolf (trying to keep it on Linux only) for private.

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From the archive:

Learning about God from dogs, Orthodox monks breed and train canines in upstate New York monastery web.archive.org

inspiring 🐕

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Owls are my power animal, and I like to watch my nieces counting all the owls in my apartment, but I know very little about them. Maybe this book would help.

Currently reading: What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman 📚