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It’s been a while since I used it but lazylibrarian has worked for me in the past.

I tried shelfarr as well with some success a while back, but haven’t needed any new books lately since I’m busy catching up on the books I’ve downloaded (the Bible is long lol).

What about reading on a koreader? Is bookbridge still the best bet?

A lot of companies have invested a lot into matter and thread. I’d be surprised if companies started requiring a call home to work. It doesn’t make sense to need that, since a thread network is, in a sense, offline by nature. Only the hub has access to the internet and it doesn’t require access to work, so having a device require a call home wouldn’t really make sense.

I get that enshittification is a real thing but I’d be surprised if it affected smart home devices in the way you are describing.

Why does Tailscale need to be used for Claude? Can’t you just ssh into it locally?

I very much appreciate this when working on a computer that’s not mine.

I also think it’s interesting that Ladybird is decidedly not including ad blocking, but leaving it to third party extensions. In some ways it makes a lot of sense to keep doing it that way.

Apple does a pretty good job of extracting dopamine from black and white packaging.

Making coffee is often the only part of my day that I have control over.

I remember editing my then girlfriend’s (now wife) papers in university, when she was struggling to explain something succinctly. I’d ask her: well what are you trying to say? And she would explain it to me, clear as day. “Just write that.”

Or better yet, an iPad!

I am enjoying my 92+

Buying buckets of used bricks is pretty cheap, too. I bought an adult's old lifetime collection for $30 CAD. My 2 year old son and I are still sorting them.

I have been enjoying building a CD and vinyl collection recently. IMO there is no better listening experience than putting a disc on a reasonably high end sound system, and sitting down with the liner notes and reading about what you are hearing. No screens, just music. It’s really quite something these days.

My 2 year old son is also enjoying this process. There is something magical about him asking to “see” the music, and getting excited about the album art. Some of his music requests are based on the album art — usually ones that actually depict the musicians.

Also on FF in Windows.

Not only does WD make something work, it makes it smell good, too!

This sure would be nice. I almost always have two windows going, and drag tabs back and forth between them.

Replacing a CPU means replacing a motherboard - this is mostly true for desktops too. And by the time you’re ready for a new CPU there is almost certainly a new type of RAM to get.

This is a baffling statement.

It’s is “source available” but not open source.

I think a lot of families actually restrict or eliminate screen time altogether, and gather round using either no technology, old technology, or new technology that imitates old technology, e.g. Yoto. There is value found in reducing our technology use. Some people may want to avoid AI on ethical grounds, or may be cautious about the cognitive effects of its use.

The vinyls are a billion dollar industry. Small compared to streaming, but definitely non-negligible.

https://www.riaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/RIAA-2024Yea...

I convinced my wife to start using a password manager, too (Bitwarden). Now she stores all of her very guessable, short, similar passwords in a manager. Sigh.

When you brake you generate a ton of heat.

Doing a U-turn generates less heat, but still quite a bit. The train will have to slow down depending on the radius of the curve, and even then the turn will slow it down some more.

But yeah, less heat generation means kinetic energy is conserved.

Cars have to slow down when they turn because it’s too much to ask of the tires to accelerate (throttle) and turn, since turning is in itself acceleration.

Does Omarchy offer anything other than opinionated dotfiles? These have always existed.

Relative line numbers can help with j and k.

It's even worse: a lot of them don't know an ad when it's presented to them.

I, too, use both Desmos and Geogebra in my classroom. One of my favourite things about Geogebra is the ability to export to tikz. It can save a lot of time when making complex geometry problems while keeping things nice and neat in your latex file. I also like using the Geogebra 3D AR app to get kids to see the different ways planes intersect, and what a parameterized solution “looks like” in a 3x3 system. It makes for a lot of “aha” moments.

On the other hand Desmos is quick, easy to use, and looks nice. The test-mode app works well on phones and the College Board will be using it for their AP exams this year, so they must be doing something right. Their new 3D apps look promising but I haven’t played with them much, yet.

Both tools have their place, but my heart is 100% with Geogebra.

My odd claim to fame which is hard to garner praise for is that when I was a kid I always followed a certain pattern when I did something on a left or right foot. I always tried to even it out. So if I pinched my left toes, then I would do my right. But then I would undo that by going right then left. And then I would undo that by undoing the entire thing: right left left right. And the pattern went on:

LRRLRLLRRLLRLRRL…

and so on. It seemed easy enough to remember because you would just undo what you did last.

A few decades later and I learn that’s the Thue Morse word (1) which has many interesting properties like being overlap free. Unfortunately it didn’t give me any kind of advantage when studying combinatorics on words. Just a weird “wait… where have I seen this before?” moment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thue%E2%80%93Morse_sequence

I’ve found KDE Plasma to be quite stable. At least compared to Windows. I haven’t used macOS in quite a few years but AFAIC it’s pretty much impossible to beat that UI.