Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Every time someone mentions amaroq my brain interprets that as amarok and I get confused because those are very different programs.

The cat is petting me.

Got an email from someone who wants to interview me for his YT channel since we'll be at the same event in a couple weeks.

Grocery shopping was expensive. Needed food stuff and cleaning stuff and cat stuff.

Cleaned the fridge.

@kropot I think there's a critical mass of brands on birdsite. It caters to having good numbers that you can show managers to justify time wasted on ineffective marketing. Here we have people, instead.

@kropot With 28 followers here I can get >60 notes on a cat picture. Before shutting down the birdsite account I had somewhere between 2000 and 3000 followers and couldn't get any of them to click a link.

I have a delivery estimate on the new computer. Should arrive Wednesday. Seems like UPS could get it here faster, but I'll see what happens.

Family from out of town came through yesterday. That was nice, but I stayed out entirely too late and then the cat decided to yell at me in the middle of the night.

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Hmm... there's USB C on there as well, so maybe I can get it up to 8 screens with those? (probably not) I have no idea what I'd even do with that much screen space but I kind of want to know if it's possible.

Other spec differences compared with this machine: about 2x clock speed, a couple extra cores, 4x RAM, 5x VRAM, 24x storage. Should be a nice upgrade all around. If I outgrow the specs any time soon I'm doing something wrong.

One thing I'm curious about with the new machine is how many external displays I can realistically use at the same time. I've never had a laptop with 3 ports for external displays (how bad does performance get if I try to plug in 2x screens on each of 2x DisplayPort plus 1 on HDMI plus built in screen, all 4K? Can I borrow someone else's screens to find out?)

Oh, and steal KDE's window snapping options.

Dear Apple, next generation MacBook Pro should be 3x as thick, base model storage starting at 1TB, keyboard (with escape key) that can be replaced separately from the entire top case when it breaks, removable battery, and ports. I want to work on my projects with the full power of the machine, not wonder which external drive the files I want are on as I figure out which dongle I should use to plug stuff in.

My new computer shipped. I tried to give this Mac a fair shake. I've been using it every day for over half a year, but between Apple making the wrong trade offs on the hardware side (for how I would like to use a computer) and enough cases where I can set the software side of things up on Linux/KDE to work more efficiently (for what I do on a computer), I just had to go back. There's no single thing that is by itself a deal breaker, but so many little details have sapped my productivity.

Now that I can change these I'll need to come up with more channel avatars.

https://video.typica.us/ has now been upgraded to PeerTube beta 10.

It's hard to type while a cat is licking your face.