Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

As usual, I've sent them an invite to create an account on this server. Most people don't take me up on that offer and the ones who do tend to ignore it until they want to ask me a question.

Someone just sent $75 in support of my free software work. It's the first financial contribution since April. https://typica.us/

I've been asked to donate to a neighboring village's tree lighting with Santa thing but one of the things they're looking for is $200 of walking taco supplies and that seems like an odd requirement for such an event.

After all the coffee tasting today I deserve a pizza.

@codingquark This is about the pace that I go at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlLyXxufc_w

@codingquark Not between every cup, but I'll use room temperature water to rinse as needed. The other concern on a day like today when there are several flights to get through is it just gets to be too much coffee. Spitting is considered acceptable and a banana or scoop of vanilla ice cream after a couple flights helps.

Time to taste some coffee. Starting with these 16 different roast levels of a coffee from Kenya.

I'll be tasting these tomorrow.

Supposedly it's random act of kindness day and instead of doing a random act of kindness, people are trying to delegate their act of kindness to others, or put another way, creating extra work that isn't anybody's job for others so they can feel good about themselves.

I think they're missing the point here.

Also, my alderman came through on getting me a replacement recycling bin for the one that vanished a couple weeks ago. I still missed today's pick up, but it's not like I generate so much waste at home that this is going to be a problem.

1 of 2 recent coffee orders has arrived. This one contains 4 coffees that I'll need to sort out how I want to roast those now and 1 that I need to roast through another 100 pounds of the previous lot before moving on to the new one.

Between the extra RAM and the extra CPU core, my PeerTube instance is going a lot faster now when it comes to getting new stuff up.

https://video.typica.us/ has now been upgraded with more storage (this was the driving motivation behind the upgrade, but the other stuff is also nice to have), double the RAM, and double the CPU cores. PeerTube has been configured to run twice as many transcoding threads and I'll see how that works when I upload my next videos.

I was down to <10GB of free space on my PeerTube server so I'm currently upgrading that to a larger hosting plan with more disk space and an extra CPU core. Shouldn't be down for long.

The cat suddenly rolled over and now there's a cat leaning on me.

Vendor: "check out our new web site!"
Me: "There's this thing here with unreadably low contrast"

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Installing updates after reboot? What is this, Windows?

Pop!_OS 19.10 downloading now.