Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

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.

Tried hooking up the external display on the new computer at the roasters and it didn't work. Turns out the problem was that Dell didn't bother to ship a driver (because what, you expect all the ports on your new computer to work?). Once I noticed the ultra-generic driver it was using and installed one from the chip's manufacturer it started working.

Have been asked for photos to go with an article that someone else wrote for Fresh Cup Magazine. They want it by Monday but I'll try to pull a few choices together within the next couple days.

Ordered a replacement laptop pre-loaded with Linux. I've tried this Mac (originally purchased just for building and testing new releases of Typica) for over half a year and while it's nice for some things I just can't get over this sense of reduced overall productivity. Plus, System76 is having a sale and I've had good experiences with their stuff.

Need to find some time soon to upgrade my PeerTube instance. I have captions that I can add to some of the stuff there.

Was sold a defective can of spray paint (missing the spray head). Need to get that replaced.

Set Uta Macross speed faster, started playing better. Okay, then.

Tonight the cat is alternating between being a too hot puddle of liquid cat and insisting on sitting on me for cuddles.