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I can't listen to podcasts unless I'm sitting with my eyes closed wearing noise-cancelling headphones. If I'm doing /anything/ while listening to a podcast, I don't hear a word they say for minutes at...
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I thought I'd make one more attempt at using BookWyrm but I still prefer LibraryThing for tracking books. https://www.librarything.com/profile/jbaty
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One theme I'm trying for next year: I'll be narrowing my eyes at anything that needs to be paired, synced, charged, or paid for monthly. Go with the other option where feasible. Worth a try.
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Some end-of-year cleaning feels good, even though I'd like to simplify it even more. I freed up a lot of desk and head space by retiring the index-card "Zettelkasten". That experiment wasn't going...
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Is this photo of my grandmother (by my grandfather) great, or what!? I just love it. There's no negative, and I'm not sure where the original (smaller) print is, but I need to find it so I can make a...
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I did my end-of-year backup system check. What a mess I'd made. Introduced Arq but never removed Backblaze. Also still used Carbon Copy Cloner for some stuff. Clouds everywhere. Working on it now.
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Moved back to zsh after a few years using Fish shell. I trip over little fish differences once in a while and have to fart around re-learning why. It took forever to figure out why my directory...
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In 1996 I made a page that showed a new image of our office manager's shoes every day. This was how we learned that this newfangled World Wide Web was full of perverts. On the plus side, my copywriting...
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After spending time updating my LibraryThing collections last week, I was reminded how much I enjoyed using Delicious Library so long ago. https://jackbaty.com/pub/delicious-library/books-3.html
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Well this was a failure and not as much fun as I'd hoped. Manually bootstrapping wifi and installing firmware packages first thing because of licensing issues took the wind right out of my sails. Gave...
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It was bugging me that I felt /so close/ to having a working desktop that I kept hammering at it. Finally got the firmware updated and WiFi working. The /etc/hostname.iwm0 file was not formatted...
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Oh, just sitting around figuring out what System I should create on the off-chance that one day I actually /need/ a System.
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