Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@frank@linuxrocks.online @sean This isn't about being able to do something or not, it's about the overall grit that saps productivity while trying to do those tasks. Yes, they all have their warts, but on Linux I can mitigate those issues instead of being stuck with them.

@sean Yeah, I don't miss that hassle. The nice thing over on Linux is once you figure out how you want things to work, everything does a pretty good job of staying out of the way and letting me do whatever it is that I'm trying to get done. I can't honestly say that about Windows or MacOS.

@sean When I started using it in the 90s it was just expected that everybody would periodically configure and rebuild the kernel.

@technomancy See also Hyperdimension Neptunia VII, which is not 7, but rather vee two, which comes 4th in the series.

The cat wants to help. What does she want to help with? Don't know.

Someone accidentally left their cane at my shop. Fortunately, their phone number was on it so we could try calling them to let them know where they lost that. Unfortunately their voicemail box was full so we couldn't leave a message.

I've registered to be notified when it's my turn to get vaccinated.

@Satsuma They give you a 1.5kB long URL as a QR code to be scanned off a television. The phone apps and optics aren't up to the task for a lot of people (myself included), thus the need for ridiculous workarounds like that.

I wrote a guide for PS4 players of #GenshinImpact on how to access the current web event since lots of people are having trouble with that. Step 6 is Install Linux on your PC.

Saw 12 birds in my back yard this morning.

The cat is going wild for the smell of hand sanitizer.

Someone on a forum wanted to know how Hu Tao did against one very specific enemy so I recorded a solo no buff attempt for them. The build is still in progress (all the artifacts will eventually get replaced and one of them isn't even levelled at all) and there's a lot of room for improved player skill, but she got the job done.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/479b070c-e91e-4ff9-96ab-4556cca6e618

The old batch tag printer broke (I've sort of fixed it but it's not especially reliable ) so I ordered a new one which arrived today. I'll need to mess around with that a little more because there are two ways to print a batch tag in Typica. One of them works exactly as expected while the more convenient way chops off the left side of the tag. The older printer had the opposite problem, which is why both methods exist, but I should really get to the bottom of that and make both ways work.

@calculsoberic@mstdn.social I get paid to drink coffee, but I drink other things, too.

Got an unreasonably over-packed box today, but I don't mind because I was running low on packing material.

It's an electric gooseneck kettle (adjustable temperature), a small scale that looks appropriate for timing and weighing shots of espresso, a double wall glass dripper, a glass server, and a cupping spoon.

The brew kit retails for something like 4 times the cost of the class, so that's pretty crazy. I could see someone signing up treating it like a big discount on the brewing equipment and getting my roasting class thrown in for free.

The next class I'm teaching has a sponsor that's sending a nice brew kit to everybody in my class and I guess I'm getting one, too. It's been a while since I got any new coffee brewing equipment.

Saw a good dog on the way home today. Its human was confused, but the dog was good. Also saw an idiot nearly drop his lit joint into his gas tank so that was scary.

me: *trying to be asleep*
cat: *trying to pet me*