Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

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.

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.

Sent off some images for Fresh Cup. I don't know which of those, if any, they'll use, but it's possible that you might see me in two separate trade magazines (if you read coffee trade magazines) published around the same time. Hopefully people don't react, "ugh, not that guy again."

I've mostly been ignoring the VR stuff (and modern Tetris, put the old randomizer back, cowards) but Tetris Effect seems oddly compelling to me. Tetris seems so far away from what anybody thought VR would be good for and yet, here we are.

Part of me wonders if Dell just assumes that anybody who expects their computer to work is immediately deleting the pre-installed Windows and replacing it with a better OS (I expect any major GNU/Linux distro would have had that working). Sadly, I'd need to swap out the data acquisition hardware at the roasters and possibly add some additional hardware support (one of the machines is a bit odd in what it presents for data loggers) to Typica in order to do that. It'll probably happen eventually.

I should probably pop a disc in the optical drive just to make sure that's not similarly screwed up.