Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Just in case anybody gets the wrong idea that you can't run Windows malware on Linux, don't get too smug. Wine can totally run a lot of that stuff.

Today's attempt at trying to trick me into running Windows malware on Linux is a fake Office Depot receipt. I've never given them that email address nor asked for an emailed receipt, but I'm pretty sure they don't send those as Excel spreadsheets. *delete*

My suppliers still don't have all the coffee I want to buy, but I'm having shipped some coffees from Colombia and Guatemala that I had previously contracted (about 1400 pounds). I'm also getting a very expensive coffee from Ecuador that'll be my next limited edition offering.

So, cats, right?

It looks like I still have the high score in @chest_bot

Who will knock me off the top of the leaderboard?

@mhoye https://vaccinate.wi.gov/

I have a vaccine appointment. The site I registered with has a very bizarre failure mode if you try to use Firefox to get the appointment and I can't for the life of me figure out how they managed to break things in the very specific way that they did (using Chrome, you enter your registration code and get the page to choose your appointment.With Firefox, it instead takes you to the survey for doing the initial registration and errors out a few pages in because you've already done that step).

@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.