I’ve had my 13” for about 18 months and it has been a fantastic laptop.

The keyboard is way better than my MacBook m1. The touchpad is comparable (none are as good as Mac touchpads but it is miles ahead of most laptops). Some people complain about the hinges but I’m not sure why. If I’m doing something intensive the fans come on. They certainly aren’t silent but I wouldn’t consider them noisy compared to laptops I’ve had in the past (including my older intel MacBook)

I run fedora mostly out of the box without issues. My one complaint would be lack of S3 sleep which can cause a lot of battery drain during suspend. I use a hybrid approach where it now suspends for 30 minutes then goes into hibernation. That works well although I miss the instant on.

I expect I’ll stay with framework for the future. I haven’t had to do any upgrades or replacements but it is really nice knowing I can.

Download Picard and get your music sorted and tagged correctly!

How does ERPnext compare to dolibarr?

I mean Amazon did this for their mp3s. It was literally just an id3 tag with a unique identifier. Not hard to remove but “good enough” to keep regular people from overly distributing it. You’ll never win against the real Pirate community no matter what you do, so just give people real incentive to buy and actually own.

Stille Volk’s cover of Iron Maiden’s To Tame A Land:

Stille Volk - Adoumestica Una Terro

Most Americans I know don’t even have a scale in their kitchen!

I (an American) always wonder what a cup of spinach is. Like I can really pack it into a cup or not and there is a huge difference.

Well, for a long time the only thing my tv had was a computer hooked up to it that played random futurama 24/7!

Here is what I do, it is a type of visualization meditation.

I have been watching futurama (original seasons) for 20 something years. I have seen each episode literally hundreds of times. I have them burned pretty well into my brain at this point.

I have ripped just the audio track from the DVDs. When I wake up in the middle of the night (2-4 times per night!), I turn on a random episode as audio only.

The goal here is to try to visualize the episode as you only listen to the audio. This forces you to focus on something rather than stress about life. It really helps me stop thinking about anything else. Because I know the episodes so well, it has become quite easy to stay focused on it (like watching with your eyes closed). And since I’ve seen the episodes so many times there is no fear of missing out, so you don’t try to stay awake to finish an episode. I can typically fall back asleep within 5-10 minutes with this technique.

I personally have these on my phone in a playlist and sleep with a single wired ear bud in one ear. I have a sleep timer set for 25 minutes. If I wake up, all I have to do is tap the button on my wired Apple headphones and it’ll continue playing for 25 more minutes. No need to open my eyes or take off my sleep mask.

I’m all for protesting the government and their actions. But I am a bit torn on this.

It’s like being a US tourist while Trump is in office and being denied everything because you are associated with you government.

I hate it too. But I am not my government.

Because some intercity buses (Megabus) don’t want to pay for their own stations or even pay to use and existing intermodal facility.

I recommend reading this article “I Went to 50 Different Dentists and Almost All of Them Gave Me a Different Diagnosis”:

https://www.rd.com/article/how-honest-are-dentists/

Technically it’s a cross on PlayStation since it uses symbols not letters.

My grandma was from the Midwest, mostly South Dakota. My grandma was very sweet and so it really cracked us up when she said that.

When my grandmother met my now wife, who is from Alabama, my grandmother told her “well, we all have to be from somewhere”

Vikunja is very slick!

Youtube channels (I unsubscribed from everything on my YouTube account, hardly ever login, and only use RSS to follow the channels I want)

This is the way to do it. I can’t stand youtube’s interface and its recommendations, auto play, and other anti-features frustrate me. I find that on youtube, when I go look at a channel, I often can’t figure out which video is the most recent, and really struggle to see figure out what I’ve watched and what I haven’t.

Using RSS let’s me see when there is a new video posted just from the channels I am interested in. I don’t have to go hunting. FreshRSS will watch it through youtube-nocookie.com, but I often find using yt-dlp is better experience, especially for anything longer than 5 minutes.

Parent’s is more complicated, but this simple script may be a good place to start. In this case, I follow a channel that posts new music videos for discovery. This automatically downloads (just the audio) using yt-dlp to a local directory. It could easily be modified to download the video (just change the -f flag). I run this with cron once a day.

https://gist.github.com/line72/ceef5402881d6d3ae732e7b7c9cbf01b

I use freshrss. It is my primary source of information. Here are some of the things I follow:

• Various Local News Sources
• Local City Council Blog
• Various National/International News Sources
• Various Blogs
• Comics (SMBC, xkcd, …)
• Music Review Sites/Blogs
• Various Record Label feeds (I run a small distributor)
• YouTube Channels :: This is so much better than going to youtube
• New Releases/ChangeLogs of various OSS projects I follow and host
• Various Planet (Gnome/Gnu/Debian/…) Aggregators
• Google Alerts
• Lemmy Communities
• Reddit Communities (We’ll see where these go)
• HomeLab/Cron :: Instead of dealing with emails, I generate RSS feeds from my cron scripts/home lab notifications
• Email Subscriptions :: I take some email notification (like new releases on bandcamp) and convert them to RSS

Nextcloud is nice since iPhone natively supports caldav/carddav so you can use the built in reminders app.

Interesting. I don’t see this issue.