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"Fragile Handle With Care" by Roman Pankoy (2020)
Oil on canvas
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@NanoRaptor I’m reminded of the kids PJs I randomly came across in Tokyo that had the schematic of the Atari 2600 on them. My kids didn’t appreciate those enough.
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I cannot fully convey how much I disliked running this conduit through my attic today.
The guy at the hardware store didn't know they sold it this large :/
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Guess what I learned today?
At exactly 7:24 in the morning, the sunlight this time of year is at an angle such that it streams across a chimney roof some distance away and casts this shadow on my window. 👤🪟
My third story window.
Please imagine the level at which my brain is (or is not) functioning at 7:24 in the morning. Then imagine my reaction.
Fortunately, this did NOT result in a load of buckshot being blasted through these mini blinds and in the general direction of a building 20 yards away. 😂
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It's when the shadow disappears and that door to the left creaks open that I'd really lose my bowel contents.
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If they sparkle in the daylight, won't you invite them in?
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We've come to an icky time in security when the concern about using outdated, unpatched software starts to become overshadowed by the fear of downloading some backdoored update.
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The fear isnt helped by all the govts and companies pushing more and more survaillance into new software. Also, sometimes the new and patched software is just crap (look at Windows 11).
Sad times to care for security...
@dangillmor Or an avalanche of slop. Or some new restriction on what I can do with my device. Or a forced invasion of privacy.
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The rather remarkable spring decline of #COVID19 continues. We've been at the lowest point in four years for weeks, and we're still declining. Per WastewaterSCAN, the level is now:
▪️ 65% lower than our lowest point in 4 years (last October)
▪️ 82% lower than last spring's and the 2024 lull
▪️ 95% below last year's highest level (in January 2025)
This bodes well for our summer surge—starting from a very low level. I doubt we'll skip a summer surge, but it might be very modest. 🤞
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That's total/averaged across the USA, right? Any local variation, or low everywhere at the moment?
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@joshuagrochow Things are quite low everywhere, as you can see from this chart of 192 wastewater sites. If you zoom in, there are a handful of sites running a bit higher (Oswego NY, Dover NH, St Cloud MN, Union Beach NJ), but they are still very low versus historic trends.
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#Meme #Humour
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Are you a well prepared cat?
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#StarTrek
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If the US military is so great then where were they at The Battle of Thermopylae?
Before Gen Z invented Aura Farming, previous generations only had Aura Hunting & Gathering
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* GenX enters the chat
archeologists discovered the earliest form of t-posing for dominance at gobekli tepe
One ancient culture with very few remains was known to call the same influence “big dick energy”
Hannah Montana OS was free of AI, just sayin'
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Whelp it seems like Fedora is going through with making a dedicated Fedora "AI" Desktop variant.I AM RUNNING OUT OF LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS THAT ARENT DOING SHITTY STUFF.
Biebian too: archiveos.org/biebian/
Biebian
Web site: biebian.sourceforge.net Origin: Category: Desktop Desktop environment: Openbox Architecture: x86 Based on: Puppy Wikipedia: Media: Live CD The last version | Released: 1.0 | June 1…pavroo (ArchiveOS)
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Biblically accurate liom:
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Asahi Linux, Day 0
A continuation of my journey to rid my life of ~~all modern conveniences~~ Mac OS. See part 1 for what can loosely be described as context.
For anyone unfamiliar with Linux, this post will either completely scare you away from installing Linux on your Mac, or it will -- no, just kidding, it's just going to scare you away. This is not the place to start with your Linux journey for most people, but let me give you some background just in case.
Linux Has a Bit of a Reputation.
Ask anyone you know if they plan on installing Linux on any device they own and chances are their response will be "No, I just need my devices to work." This is both heartbreaking and understandable. Linux has a long history of being Just For Nerds with its command lines and custom partition tables, but this is largely a thing of the past thanks to more human-friendly distributions like Ubuntu on Mint. In fact, as long as you're not starting your journey on the deep end (i.e. Arch or Gentoo) Linux is generally going to be friendly and familiar. Are there still some rough edges that require some user intervention from time-to-time? Sure, but even the Just Works operating system isn't without its share of quirks.
However...
While it is certainly true that generally available Linux feels more and more like Windows or Mac these days, Asahi is a little different. Make no mistake, it's still a very polished distribution, based on a very solid Fedora base. Most things do Just Work. Most, but not all, and there are some quirks that are going to require some patience to get through -- I started writing the post last evening but had to abandon it when I couldn't get the screen brightness to dim past 60% and the ambient contrast started to make my eyes bleed.
The list of quirks are well documented on Asahi's website, and entirely revolve around ongoing work to reverse engineer Apple's proprietary, undocumented hardware. Things like USB-C monitors do not work currently, audio over HDMI is hit or miss (mostly miss), screen brightness is a little buggy, the screen notch doesn't appear to work on my M1 at the moment -- the list goes on, but the grievances are minor, from my perspective.
This is What I Love About Linux
It's great that Linux is becoming more user-friendly -- I don't ever want to see that go away -- but I love that Linux can also be a place for humans to do cool stuff. The Asahi devs don't have to do any of this. This is purely a passion project, full of uphill battles. It's a project filled with burnout and users asking, repeatedly, when Feature X will be supported. But the project lives on -- not because of some huge corporate interests or advertisers or AI companies trying to extract data from you -- but because some nerds thought, "hey, I wonder if this is possible?"
So yeah, USB-C monitors don't currently work, and for some users that might be a deal breaker, and that's totally fine. I can remember a time when dual monitors weren't supported (man I'm old) and spending weeks of my life playing around with XRandR to try and get it working seemed completely sane. Writing software is hard, and seeing what the Asahi devs have pulled off is nothing short of jaw dropping.
No Rough Edges
I don't expect anyone to agree with me on this one, but I will assert that Asahi Linux exceeds every expectation I have and is devoid of rough edges. Do some features not work the way the devs would like them to? Yes. Are there pieces still being improved? Absolutely. But those aren't the benchmarks here, in my opinion. Asahi Linux -- or any Linux -- isn't trying to be the most slick Operating System you've ever seen (except for Zorin, probably), it's trying to give you your computer back. To that end, Asahi more than clears the mark.
I'm as guilty of this as anyone, but it can be easy to forget that all of the "highly polished" gadgetry and software that we regularly interact with was build using billions of dollars from companies with a vested interested in keeping you engaged and on their platform. Microsoft and Apple used to sell software, but now they're primarily in the business of selling highly integrated, incredibly convenient bear traps -- come to our platform, trust us with your stuff, and accept it when the prices start climbing -- are you really going to pair down all of those cat photos on One Drive just because of a few extra dollars a month in storage fees?
Final Thoughts
This is what it comes down to. Asahi -- really, Linux in general -- is almost nostalgic. It hearkens back to a time when we owned stuff. We can still own stuff, but it's up to each of us to put in the work. Microsoft isn't going to go out of their way to make your life easier and give you control over it.
I honestly hadn't planned on this post being some long rant -- it was originally supposed to be about how to install MakeMKV on Asahi (which ended up being too easy to justify a post), but it's been a long few months of hearing my coworkers talk about how bad and expensive tech is getting (a lot of them are paying for AI subscriptions, which are apparently getting more and more expensive) and I guess this all ended up being top-of-mind for me.
I don't think people still say this, but there used to be this sentiment of "vote with your dollar." It's an oversimplification of a complicated capitalistic hellscape, but I do think there are a lot more opportunities to do these tiny bits of micro-activism than we might think. It's work, to be sure, and it's unrealistic to expect everyone to have capacity for more work in their lives right now, but sometimes the willingness to put up with a few little frustrations is worth it in the long run.
To summarize: something something something, be the change you want to see in the world, platitude platitude, go install Linux on someone's computer this week.
Zorin OS - Make your computer better.
Discover the alternative to Windows and macOS designed to make your computer faster, more powerful, secure, and privacy-respecting.Zorin
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Asahi Linux, Day 0
A continuation of my journey to rid my life of ~~all modern conveniences~~ Mac OS. See part 1 for what can loosely be described as context.For anyone unfamiliar with Linux, this post will either completely scare you away from installing Linux on your Mac, or it will -- no, just kidding, it's just going to scare you away. This is not the place to start with your Linux journey for most people, but let me give you some background just in case.
Linux Has a Bit of a Reputation.
Ask anyone you know if they plan on installing Linux on any device they own and chances are their response will be "No, I just need my devices to work." This is both heartbreaking and understandable. Linux has a long history of being Just For Nerds with its command lines and custom partition tables, but this is largely a thing of the past thanks to more human-friendly distributions like Ubuntu on Mint. In fact, as long as you're not starting your journey on the deep end (i.e. Arch or Gentoo) Linux is generally going to be friendly and familiar. Are there still some rough edges that require some user intervention from time-to-time? Sure, but even the Just Works operating system isn't without its share of quirks.However...
While it is certainly true that generally available Linux feels more and more like Windows or Mac these days, Asahi is a little different. Make no mistake, it's still a very polished distribution, based on a very solid Fedora base. Most things do Just Work. Most, but not all, and there are some quirks that are going to require some patience to get through -- I started writing the post last evening but had to abandon it when I couldn't get the screen brightness to dim past 60% and the ambient contrast started to make my eyes bleed.The list of quirks are well documented on Asahi's website, and entirely revolve around ongoing work to reverse engineer Apple's proprietary, undocumented hardware. Things like USB-C monitors do not work currently, audio over HDMI is hit or miss (mostly miss), screen brightness is a little buggy, the screen notch doesn't appear to work on my M1 at the moment -- the list goes on, but the grievances are minor, from my perspective.
This is What I Love About Linux
It's great that Linux is becoming more user-friendly -- I don't ever want to see that go away -- but I love that Linux can also be a place for humans to do cool stuff. The Asahi devs don't have to do any of this. This is purely a passion project, full of uphill battles. It's a project filled with burnout and users asking, repeatedly, when Feature X will be supported. But the project lives on -- not because of some huge corporate interests or advertisers or AI companies trying to extract data from you -- but because some nerds thought, "hey, I wonder if this is possible?"So yeah, USB-C monitors don't currently work, and for some users that might be a deal breaker, and that's totally fine. I can remember a time when dual monitors weren't supported (man I'm old) and spending weeks of my life playing around with XRandR to try and get it working seemed completely sane. Writing software is hard, and seeing what the Asahi devs have pulled off is nothing short of jaw dropping.
No Rough Edges
I don't expect anyone to agree with me on this one, but I will assert that Asahi Linux exceeds every expectation I have and is devoid of rough edges. Do some features not work the way the devs would like them to? Yes. Are there pieces still being improved? Absolutely. But those aren't the benchmarks here, in my opinion. Asahi Linux -- or any Linux -- isn't trying to be the most slick Operating System you've ever seen (except for Zorin, probably), it's trying to give you your computer back. To that end, Asahi more than clears the mark.I'm as guilty of this as anyone, but it can be easy to forget that all of the "highly polished" gadgetry and software that we regularly interact with was build using billions of dollars from companies with a vested interested in keeping you engaged and on their platform. Microsoft and Apple used to sell software, but now they're primarily in the business of selling highly integrated, incredibly convenient bear traps -- come to our platform, trust us with your stuff, and accept it when the prices start climbing -- are you really going to pair down all of those cat photos on One Drive just because of a few extra dollars a month in storage fees?
Final Thoughts
This is what it comes down to. Asahi -- really, Linux in general -- is almost nostalgic. It hearkens back to a time when we owned stuff. We can still own stuff, but it's up to each of us to put in the work. Microsoft isn't going to go out of their way to make your life easier and give you control over it.I honestly hadn't planned on this post being some long rant -- it was originally supposed to be about how to install MakeMKV on Asahi (which ended up being too easy to justify a post), but it's been a long few months of hearing my coworkers talk about how bad and expensive tech is getting (a lot of them are paying for AI subscriptions, which are apparently getting more and more expensive) and I guess this all ended up being top-of-mind for me.
I don't think people still say this, but there used to be this sentiment of "vote with your dollar." It's an oversimplification of a complicated capitalistic hellscape, but I do think there are a lot more opportunities to do these tiny bits of micro-activism than we might think. It's work, to be sure, and it's unrealistic to expect everyone to have capacity for more work in their lives right now, but sometimes the willingness to put up with a few little frustrations is worth it in the long run.
To summarize: something something something, be the change you want to see in the world, platitude platitude, go install Linux on someone's computer this week.
Zorin OS - Make your computer better.
Discover the alternative to Windows and macOS designed to make your computer faster, more powerful, secure, and privacy-respecting.Zorin
📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn’t dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.
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The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.Terry Godier
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Wow, reading mode (or SpeedReader as Brave calls it) is a game-changer. Thank you so much!
Learned something new today...
Hey strangers, like many of you I'm doing what I can to #LeaveBigTech and like _some_ of you I simply won't shut up about it. Sometimes I even write about it! So if you're in the mood to read some amateur writing from a non-amateur tech enthusiast come with me as I try to figure out how to survive in this current tech hellscape. My first post on the topic can be found at forum.homelab.officebot.io/top…
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May the 4th be with you
#StarTrek
The Great Material Continuum. May The River always carry you to profits and may you always navigate it well!
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Old man yells at cloud. Repeatedly.
#cats
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I keep it closed in winter. I am the type of person who loves open windows. But I don't want the whole flat cold.
This week's US #COVID19 update:
- COVID viral activity is the lowest since 2021 and still declining.
- Almost every state has very low viral activity except NE (high), WV (moderate), and MS/LA (low).
- South region saw a small increase this week (but that's preliminary).
- CDC estimates COVID growing in only one state (AZ) and declining in 31 states.
cdc.gov/wastewater/respiratory…
cdc.gov/cfa-modeling-and-forec…
National Wastewater Data for Respiratory Viruses
View national wastewater viral activity data for Influenza A, COVID-19, and RSV.CDC's Wastewater Monitoring Program
Yes, I had assumed that the map associated with the post was pulled from the underlying link, like is often done with shared articles. I would have thought the CDC would have set up their site to actually pull the real map rather than choosing to display an incorrect map as default.
Now is a great time to get to the dentist or do other things you may put off due to #COVID19 risks. COVID is at 5-year lows.
We're even lower than this today (since NWSS's data is 2 weeks old), but COVID risks as of 4/18 were:
80% lower than January's surge
1/3 lower than last fall's lull
2/3 lower than at the same time last year
Data from the US:
WastewaterSCAN: data.wastewaterscan.org/?chart…
Positive rate of testing: syndromictrends.com/
NWSS wastewater: cdc.gov/wastewater/respiratory…
WastewaterSCAN Dashboard
WastewaterSCAN Data Dashboard tracks infectious diseases across the US via wastewater surveillance.data.wastewaterscan.org
I appreciate this. The thing that worries me in the back of my mind is that lag time -- when (if) it starts to rebound, how long before we start to catch on?
@jensilber I'm not concerned about lag time. 1st, we have the WastwaterSCAN dashboard (less complete but more current). 2nd, there are no variants that are currently causing any serious concerns (apart from that the current ones seem more transmissible to kids.) Given this, lag time is less risky when we're at record lows.
Perhaps most important, we've had two years with four surges that have been consecutively smaller. Surges don't develop in 2 weeks--they start small, and we have signals.
@jensilber Right now, WastewaterSCAN's more current data is only showing more declines in recent weeks.
If we have record low COVID activity--as we do now--that's the time to get the stuff done that we need to. IMO, we can't stay paralyzed forever because a surge MIGHT be starting. (And, right now, I am very confident we are a month or longer away from even the beginnings of a new surge.)
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My clients say I’m good at capturing their pets’ unique facial features.
Oils on canvas, 2026
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In case you've ever wonder what it looks like when you convert an old shopping mall into office space
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I completely forgot that I'm an artist. Commissions are open! Feel free to contact me. I take on any project and can create any painting for you, from pet portraits and interior art to complex projects. Worldwide shipping from Ukraine!
Also you can check my Etsy store (link in bio).
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Thirsty, but don't want to roll over? No problem!
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