I think often, when doing stuff like installing software, and I say this as a computer Catweazle/dilettante/begrudging IT user, a person can look up and see hours have passed. I just looked up and it is far earlier than I expected. Obviously I got it installed - it worked dual booted, encrypted partition, and then I had to add a Wheel user, then loads of other little things and it kept interfering with a TV show I'm watching. So I installed the Manjaro XFCE official image, for a change, and it's speedy and functional, but before I get stuck on that I think I'll give Plasma a go. I'll probably end up back on Manjaro I3.
'rmmod pcspkr' has stopped that annoying beep when the computer can't do something. The reason this is so slow is because I'm dual booting. Without that I'd be done half hour ago.
Stage 1. Drive partitioned, keyboard set, LUKS stuff, mirrors fixed. Hopefully stage 2 or 3 won't be me standing in the garden questioning whether Windows 11 is quite so boring after all (only joking - I'd install Manajo).
I very much like the idea of Arch and have installed FreeBSD and Slackware and OpenBSD in the past. I'm not remotely afrit of a terminal. I do find all of the farting about with stuff that I know how to do but haven't done for ages a collosal rigamarole. I'm not at the Ubunto, or 'get a Mac', Fedora stage of not wanting to muck around (there is nothing wrong with Macs or Ubuntu or Fedora - they are acceptable options, but I prefer Manjaro for ease of use/flexibility because familiarity rather than brand loyalty). But that amount of routine, scriptable, tedious, configuration in Arch only makes sense in a *minority* of cases before the base is installed. They need a user survey. I with there were a jaded (done this too often/don't want to fiddle too much) and student/grey beard mode. OpenBSD do it better IMHO. Going to catch the Daystar and eat before considering what to do. Which will probably involve Arch and an unecessarily fiddly evening. Windows 11 Pro basically feels like a Linux distro that doesn't natively run Linux apps.
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My other two favourite food Instas: Sandy Tang, because it's interesting seeing a successful food startup and posts like this (the description explains it all):
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvFO0mdIcmI/
Aaron Middleton, because the man likes food and is very good at it, plus has enough recipes the far less skilled, like myself, can cook plus with an emphasis on learning - he's a chef that takes people with him:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvDExj4IqOX/
I dislike Instagram/TikTok food channels, generally, because they're often about showing off variations on gluttony or ingredients over technique. There are many good ones, but I hit follow on those two.
🧱 #DayBrix for Blue Monday, 24 Jul 2023: 🌟100% in 123.6 seconds
With an objective rebuttal to declinism a person must be cognisant of that rebuttal not being an excuse for things that suck and/or are wrong. Basically always zoom out on the X axis and beware a dodgy Y axis.
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Summer 2022.
Brinjol (eggplant or aubergine) curry, British Indian restaurant style:
Latif's inspired is a really good British Indian restaurant style cooking channel because, like many Indian restaurants in the UK it's as much Bangladeshi. His dhansak recipes are very tasty/spicy and like 2/3 I've had from Indian restaurants here in the UK.
Obvs lots vegetarian food on there that could easily be adapted to vegan. I'm a 75% vegan. Or basically omnivorous, with lots of vegetables, with as little ultra processed food as possible. I don't think there is a single right diet so vary it as much as possible/listen to cravings.
i3 window manager is great. I have been using it for a few years. I press Windows Key D (with my config*) and two keys to launch the web browser and alt-enter to launch terminals. Launching stuff/organising the screen is massively streamlined:
* Very easy to change the mod key to whater is free/easiest:
https://i3wm.org/docs/refcard.html
Trackpads are suboptimal control devices, IMHO, maybe I've got biggish hands, or I'm clumsy, but with i3 (there are other window managers, or OSes, I'm not religious about technology - what you're doing with it matters at least as much) I can do pretty much most window admin/organisation with the keyboard. I still use the trackpad but only in situations that require it. Plus it's about as fast as it's possible to get on a heavily crippled, through bug mitigation, 2012 vintage 2570p (i7-3520m). So on anything newer should be extremely fast. Doesn't look awful either (I have the Manjaro niceities on the bottom bar - so I'm not hand editing WiFi/network scripts etc, I'm being warned I need to update, plus time/memory/disk use/CPU/clipboard/sound - so it's by no means antediluvian).
I've got to get a Linux distro. I've been using Linux since early versions (should be said in somewhat amateurish way for the first 10 years), so ease of use isn't an issue but time/support is. My back is like an egg-timer for sitting down. In any other circumstances I'd run OpenBSD but it's still tier 3 for Rust, and that's a deal-breaker, unfortunately, because I very much like OpenBSD.
Chimera Linux looks very interesting because I'm a firm believer in keeping it as simple as possible. It's not there yet for Rust and I don't want to build Vim from source. My now over a decade old laptop (HP 2570p - with everything Spectre & meltdown patched/mitigated as much as possible - which knocked off a *lot* of performance - plus I fitted an SSD/maxed the memory) is quite tough/still working bar an x key I have to press extra hard and a few dents, which encouraged me to write tight code because I notice, very keenly, when it's not. I'm going to get a newer laptop, primarily because I'm getting bothered by switching virtual desktop because of screen space.
I have shortlisted the i3 window manager Fedora spin, Manjaro's i3 version, Arch Linux or Gentoo. Manjaro and Fedora are less arsing around. My 2570p with Manjaro uses about 300mb of memory once booted (nearly instantly) & logged into the window manager (although rapidly goes up to about 2.5gb once I launch a heavily tabbed web browser, three virtual desktops and two open terminals). Alpine Linux looks sexy/aligns with my objectives but I don't want to spend time mucking around with X/window manager configuration, like a flashback to the 00s.
I will probably blog about this. I have feelings about it. My 2570p may go to Valhalla (OpenBSD). I don't think Windows 11 is shit but it's like a car with the bonnet welded shut.
Got to 99% on the bricks (https://vole.wtf/daybrix/) game and the phone mistook a move for a gesture and screwed that game for the second day in a row.
Wordle 764 2/6*
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Correction: vaccinated 2021, for the exact date I'd need to check, - seems like a decade ago.
I suffer from an auto-immune disease and the specific mechanism seems to involve leukocyte over-reaction, I've had COVID twice, both times unpleasant but, relative to flu, mild, and my suspicion is that COVID suppresses the immune system. That suspicion is based on the auto-immune disease stopping for a few months after COVID and my first ever flu - which was immediately following the second time I had COVID. Flu, for me at least, made COVID look like a lightweight virus. Like you I'm not willing to move beyond suspicion because of confounders.
I was vaccinated twice, very early on 2020, and auto-immune disease activity didn't reduce afterwards, while it did both times with later strains of COVID. Needs further study and really difficult to disentangle.
Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea (second or third single I bought)
🧱 #DayBrix for Faster Friday, 21 Jul 2023: 🌟100% in 331.0 seconds
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Subject I'm not good at + the realisation that my notes are in the wrong order and there are no page numbers. I am very easily distracted and I do not make the situation better. I have to re-learn stuff just on the annoying side of the Hermann Ebbinghaus forgetting curve. Not totally lost though. Maybe mostly. Lockdown notes.
I would like to be clear that I'm not anti-AI*, I think it's an inevitable by-product of abundant compute, and that it will be a net positive for humanity. It will mostly be defined by those asking the questions. But either we have the awkward questions now about data scraping, audit trails, attribution and commercial exploitation of human labour, or it happens in huge class actions, huge corporate legal battles and civil rights cases, later on. I'm all for the great reduction of human repetition but it should be fair.
* I disagree with the term itself. Although less with machine learning. I'll no doubt rant about this again, quite boringly. Basically automata discrete, chemistry continuous, intelligence ill-defined with reference to other life or biological systems.
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