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how do I play this

love pi-hole

we block all meta and X properties from our home network, also ads

and it's self hosted on our own metal

it's a wonderful life

yes!

typing is not writing

for me at least 90% of the "writing" happens away from a keyboard

mainly in my head (on walks, in the shower, when I least expect it)

then on paper & pencil, writing words, phrases, drawing lines, rinse, repeat

my goal is to finish the conceptual thinking to a degree that when I sit down in front of a keyboard, it's mainly "downloading" from my brain

If I try to do the conceptual work at a keyboard it's torture

get up earlier

seriously though after I started getting up every single day without fail at 6:00 am, no matter what happened the day before, no matter what’s on my schedule today, ever since I have had no trouble whatsoever ever falling asleep. Usually by 9:30 pm I am feeling v sleepy and by 10 pm I cannot help but lie down and close my eyes.

The only thing that modulates this is caffeine. No caffeine after 2:00 pm otherwise I may be up until 11:00 pm even midnight.

but even then, wake at 6:00 am the next day without fail, that was the magic bullet for me

all this stuff about bedtime routines, warm bath, soft lighting, etc, seems funny to me - like I said by 9:30 pm and certainly by 10:00 pm I cannot help but lie down and close my eyes, I don’t need any enticements.

can we get it on ollama? if not how come openai is called open

It’s very simple actually. “The dish” is defined as a chicken you see before it is then taken away and carved. You see your chicken. That’s the promise. If they parade around with a display chicken then it is simply dishonest. Does it matter? That is a different question entirely. The point is there is a promise involved in “the dish”. If they want to use a parade chicken then they need a different promise.

interesting (the ‘materialize’ option in Arq). I wonder what it does to the files it ‘materializes’ after the backup … does it leave them on the local disk or does Arq instruct the service (dropbox or icloud) to make it cloud only again? I guess I’m wondering about the case where the total cloud footprint is larger than the local disk footprint.

Hey does this as well, it's a cool feature

https://www.hey.com/features/inbox-notes/

weapons apparently https://www.ft.com/content/17f16071-87e0-4675-a152-6d6285b97...

once.com is an interesting recent step towards this

"The updates and network access are mostly nonsense": This rings so true to me.

Though so much of my actual work now involves network access... whether that's referring to files on someone's OneDrive folder (my admin assistants, who are subject to my institution's obsession with Micro$oft, are constantly sending me links to files in a OneDrive folder) or looking up papers on Google Scholar or PubMed.

I guess what bugs me about modern MacOS and Windows operating systems is that one has no choice but for their computer to be constantly talking to who knows who on the internet, all the time... even if you login and just sit there and not run any internet-facing apps. I could log into my laptop, launch MS Turd, write a paper, and all the while my OS (and MS Turd) would be doing who knows what, at the mercy of who knows what security threats.

I know I could disable WiFi. For a while. Eventually my OS would start complaining.

I guess a linux-based OS in which I lock down network access to (for example) only a web browser. Then at least it's my own hand.

It drives me BONKERS that I can read the new yorker within the apple news app (because I pay money) but I cannot in any way through any means read the same words via a web browser to the actual new yorker site.

I know, welcome to the new internet. Apple sells me discounted access via their app because in doing so Apple can monetize my eyeballs. I hate it.

It bugs me that I can read New Yorker articles using the Apple News app but I can’t read it on its own website.

No epub ebook format for ereaders?

PS — Do you trust that your Notes will not disappear one day in some kind of OS-update-related or iCloud-related hiccup? I guess I still feel nervous from the "me.com" days in which Apple's cloud storage simply didn't work.

Thanks I appreciate this. It’s a very pragmatic take on this.

I have been using Apple Notes which is great because I can read/write in the moment on a Mac, on iPad, on iPhone, and everything is (almost always) synced and stored in the cloud. I have been doing one note per day.

On the other hand, PTF (Pity The Fool) who tries to export these notes. I know some people have written exporters but of course, whenever Apple decides to change format, PTF.

I would like to change to a more portable format, e.g. markdown, but I am looking for a solution that syncs nicely across devices. Maybe iaWriter. Maybe just sublime text or even emacs and just put everything in a dropbox folder.

“Try it” requires sign-up which is a no-go sorry

Are these ceiling mounted APs suitable for a home environment where they would not be ceiling mounted? Like can I put it on a desk like I do my ancient Apple AirPort Time Capsule AP? PS the time capsule is sitting on a desk in our main floor living room and it covers basement, main floor, and all upstairs except 1 corner bedroom. It’s connected via Ethernet to a EdgeMax 4 router which has been mostly great though interface is kludgy. Some day the time capsule will give up the ghost though and then what?

It would be great for you to share the code

What are some good looking year-view wall calendars? The ‘at-a-glace’ stuff and related things you find at staples etc look too businessy for my taste. Anyone have pointers to better options? I like the clean design of the OP’s calendar pages.

Would you be willing to share the elisp config in your .emacs file that enables your org capture template?

As a kid in the 80s we used to fly YVR-HNL every winter … always pneumatic earphones.

Dumb question I guess, what is a CI???

Coded in lisp !

It’s people! Zoom fatigue is people!

Agreed! “Shared” implies good natured oopsie. More likely it was _sold_

This is one reason why I respect LaTeX so much, and why I can often spot documents written using MS Word a mile away. The idea that it doesn’t matter, that humans are not sensitive to or affected by these things, is plainly false. If I’m reading a long document, it matters. It may not matter ‘objectively’ but … I am human and it does affect me.

The corollary is, if I’m writing a document that I know others will be judging (e.g. a research grant application or a scientific publication) I will absolutely 100% do what I can to make it a more pleasant experience for the reader, including using LaTeX for text rendering. I may change (or not) the default font, but for text rendering and all the tiny decisions about spacing, kerning, etc, I will trust LaTeX over MS Turd any day.

Sure, “it shouldn’t matter”, a reader ought to judge my ideas and not be affected by this other stuff —- but, alas, the reader (for now ;) ) is human, and we are affected by this stuff.