I’m enjoying “The Overstory” by Richard Powers for my fiction fix.

Just got in the mail today, currently on chapter 3, “The art of receiving and giving” by Betty Martin. This one I’m going to have to read piecewise.

Scapegoat tree ftw

Love those too!

Delightful!

I’ll keep my eyes open for those next spring

Oh the colors

People used to make all kinds of stuff from the bark, too

Bending in the wind like a ballerina

Stochastic parrot is a term describing your experience with AI.

I’ve an aunt like that, ready to engage in every conversation despite not understanding the topic. Regugitating whatever she saw on her tv, in her own words.

So in a sense, the current large language models do mimic some human’s behaviour.

I was playing with a magical lamp in the old volkswagen getting rusty in my grandma’s yard. When, surprisingly, the whole car turned into sand and I drowned.

Had this dream when I was 6 or 7 years old. For some reason, I think about it every so often.

For sending over small stuff, I usually generate a qr code and scan it with the other device.

I’d suggest to start with ubuntu. I’d the distro that has the most guides/resources available.

Personally, I prefer xubuntu. Which is ubuntu, but with a slimmed down UI.

I’ve heard good things about https://www.linuxmint.com/, maybe read about that one too.

To get started, I always use Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en/) which downloads the required files, and makes a bootable USB flash drive.

I’ve seen bright IR emittors, that can oversaturate some cameras

I’m self employed.

Found out I’m depressed, decided to reduce work to 3 days a week.

Raised prices to reduce clients. Turns out I now make more, doing less work. It is what it is.

I like Xubuntu. But I’ve no experience on how well it does with touch screens.

I’ve met people who don’t know what a URL is.

The kind of people that google “facebook” when they want to visit facebook.

Completely flabbergasted that we run internal services not indexable by google.

I didn’t do no nothing wrong now, didn’t I?

“Solidarity” as it’s too often used to make others do things you want.

March 2023

Had the same issue with outlook last weeks. 60% CPU usage, doing nothing.