Trying to think about how the theme system could help me next year. Previous tries with similar journaling „systems“ didn’t stick. I’m not good at such things but I always see the great benefit it could bring to my life.
Trying to think about how the theme system could help me next year. Previous tries with similar journaling „systems“ didn’t stick. I’m not good at such things but I always see the great benefit it could bring to my life.
Didn’t get to the themes yet, but this sentence really nails it. Can’t believe how fast this crappy year went by…
Farewell 2020, we barely knew you!
Cortex #110: 2021 Yearly Themes
Started watching Tiny World on Apple TV+. I need some calm and cuteness in my life right now. I have no idea how they shot this stuff or whether most of it is rendered on a computer. But those images are fabulous! Really stunning images.
I just wanted a new coffee maker because my cheap one makes only horrible coffee now… I’m sad to report that I fell into a rabbit hole and I will probably have to open a coffee shop next week and become a barista.
„It ain‘t over till the fat lady sings…“ Officials increasingly alarmed about Trump’s power grab
Longer than usual Christmas vacation started today. More than 3 weeks at home thanks to lockdown and closed kindergartens et.al. Lots of time to spend with my older daughter, she needs it. These times are hard for kids. They might not show it, but they definitely behave like it.
Maybe I will find some time to reflect on this terrible, terrible year, looking ahead at 2021. There are major decisions to make for short, medium term and maybe even the rest of our lives. The problem is: I have zero mental capacity right now to even decide what I should eat for breakfast. Not a good combination. Sometimes it starts to feel like this year broke me. There’s a lot of room for improvement next year, on all fronts.
On a positive note: it’s so great to see my little daughter develop so incredible. It’s amazing how far she is and how much she learned in her first 7 months. Not all is bad these days.
I checked out the new Synology Photos app (there’s also a Testflight for iOS!) and it really looks good so far. There are a couple of things I really really hope they will still implement though. I don’t understand why nobody else seems to have the problem that family members take photos they want to share in one place while keeping other photos for themselves. It’s always one way or the other. A mix is either too complicated, not even available or stripped down in features. I understand that Apple desperately needs the money from my iCloud storage plan to not go out of business, but also nobody else seems to get this right.
Toilet paper supplies ramping up in local drug stores again. Either people take this lockdown seriously or the demand is saturated as everyone has piles of paper in their basement.
If I read „breaking news“ that start with “The Trump administration accused…“ I just stop reading. Nobody cares anymore. Just stop it, it’s over.
I wrote that post completely by hand on my reMarkable, converted it to text and edited it on my Linux machine. Two more topics in the pipeline! The text conversion is much better than I thought… Just a few things it didn’t get right, but they were expected.
The Game Pass app told me my game was already live today. It wasn’t, but I got something I didn’t think existed anymore… a test image! With a super annoying sound! It felt like the 80s again. Glorious! 🏈
As if this fucked up year wouldn’t be bad enough already, it’s really getting worse for a really good friend of mine who had a tough year already… Fuck cancer!
I was optimistic that mailbox.org would be a good alternative to Tutanota for secure mails. I checked it out and read about it… even paid for a month to actually be able to try things out. And now I’m not even able to send a mail in their web app. Not very convincing.
From our afternoon walk in the forest last week…
So… I did this thing where I played around with an old/new template and now I have a revived old/new blog all of a sudden. It just happened. Check it out: Subject to Change
Half way through Long Way Down and I think this is the most interesting one of the three. There’s natural tension between the crew, incredibly interesting places… Happy and frightning stories, amazing wildlife. And I think it shows what we can loose in humanity and our ecosystem.
I found another little side project for you, in case you’re bored: Booting FreeDOS from a vinyl record.
Got a little closer to finishing my new/old blog. Template is more or less done; now tweaking the colors a bit and adding some basic infos… and we’re good to go!
Really happy I received my reMarkable e-ink device today! I’m amazed by everything around that thing and it really feels surreal to write on it. Technically it’s really really good. Now let’s see how and if I will use it daily…
Knowing that something you awaited for months will finally arrive kind of destroys productivity for the whole rest of the day 🙃
I wrote a long blog post including how lucky I am with the Manjaro install working for such a long time without failing on me. Jinxed it.
Holy moly this is creepy: Disney Research - Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze
I’d really like something like Mars Edit or Ulysses on Linux. The best I can get is VS Code and that basically tells you the whole story.
This article about Facebook was widely spread yesterday/today (I got it via Daring Fireball). It’s THE reason to quit anything Facebook does. What does it take for people to realize that this company is helping to destroy the way we live? Why does nobody care? Is it really so hard for people to find another way to organize as a community these days? I just don’t understand anyone – and I know a lot of them – who is still unwilling to give up on Facebook or WhatsApp, let alone Instagram. They might understand it, but they don’t see a problem for themselves. It’s not just about themselves though. This company (and others as well) is destroying our democracy. This article is just yet another proof for that. People are not willing to take even the smallest hit to their convenience to help make a point for the bigger picture. It’s really sad.
Warum bekomme ich von Xing eigentlich immer Jobangebote für die Firma in der ich bereits arbeite…? Xing ist irgendwie das StudiVZ der Business Networks, lebendig begraben.