Iceraven (firefox fork that lets me do more with it) and Mull.

Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark. It’s a surprisingly fun read.

The hell is autocorrect? (I use Unexpected Keyboard)

Also, my distro of choice is generally Debian or Kubuntu. I am aware that using canonical’s distro is gonna get me skinned alive, and I have serious issues with some of the OS, but it also hasn’t given me enough frustration to outright replace it yet. Especially when you consider that I’m running it on a Surface Pro 9 of all things, and Debian doesn’t have a new enough Plasma version last I checked.

Wow, that was a rant, oops.

Personally, I’m a big fan of XMPP, due to the inherent resiliency in being decentralized/federated, and due to the security provided by OMEMO (based on signal’s algorithm). Don’t have to worry about third-parties messing with my data if it stays on my server that’s in my house.

People can also stop saying words and think for a second about the information they’re actually saying first, whereas an LLM just vomits up words that seem to match the pattern of the rest of the sentence. If I were to ask you what 2 + 2 is, you’d stop, run the math in your head, get 4, then reply with 4. An LLM would just start vomiting out words based on what it’s been trained on without verifying that the information is good (or even relevant), and can end up confidently telling you that 2 + 2 is in fact equal to the cube root of 5 because that’s what the data said so it has to be right, for instance.

I’m aware this is a drastic oversimplification, and I think the tech is neat (although I avoid non-self-hosted models like the plague due to privacy concerns), but it’s oversold to all hell, and is definitely not even close to intelligent.

In theory you can fire up vi(m) in an emacs terminal, so… I guess?

I call my server “the server”, “the shitbox”, or “the 36TB”, my pc “the PC”, and my surface… “the surface”. Creative, I know.

Accidentally put grub on the wrong partition on the device, which it was not happy with. Was able to copy some files over, manually boot the OS, and reconfigure grub to be in the right partition, took me about 2 hours? Then I did it again on a different machine, and speedran it lol

Started with Raspbian when I first got my Pi, and have mostly used KUbuntu or Debian since.