Oh hai Mark!

That time I wish we had awards to grind out.

In my experience people who “don’t want to talk politics” or are “apolitical” do so because they understand exactly what their personal politics are: “my wants and needs come first, and at any cost, so I will pretend to hate all politics because it serves my own. Any discussion will put me in an uncomfortable situation and clearly I prioritize my own comfort.”

If you like Pilot might I also recommend Java Roasters out of Toronto or Bows and Arrows from out west. If you’re in Quebec, Nucleus is very very good with a Pilot-like variety of roasts and origins.

IMO the current cream of the crop of Canadian roasters is Quietly out of Stirling Ontario but that’s just my preference.

Getting Quietly’s coffee at home used be a challenge (limited stock releases once a week at 11am EST) but they’ve opened up their webstore releases to two days a week. Still very hard to grab their decaf - which is consistently some of the best specialty coffee decaf I’ve ever had.

Probably because they used to be part of education machine for how dangerous guns were - and that, by far, firearm fatalities from suicide account for over half (58% in 2023) of gun deaths.

Source: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/new-report-highlights-us-2023-gun-deaths-suicide-by-firearm-at-record-levels-for-third-straight-year

But now, with an administration that politicizes everything - and ignores any evidence of facts that dispute their goals - they’re turning the tables.

Note: am not American and also own several firearms. Was surprised when taking our country’s requisite firearms safety course that the overwhelming focus was on self harm and reduction of those risks. (And since we’re here - it’s shocking how many gun owners immediately assume I’m far right leaning just because I’m next to them at the range with a firearm in my hands; no friend healthcare IS WAY more important than this tool.)

Society is always changing. We have a choice in how we change it.

These technocrats are so entitled they don’t GAF about consent. “If you’d only relax you’d see how great it feels.”

The note here makes it clear (link at the very top of the GitHub readme doc): https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/master/MIRROR.md

The author intends to work at their pace, on their time, with no interaction with the public projects.

Likely, and this is supposition, a small group of developers connected on the network itself will push the project forward where pushes are needed but they may not be.

But also, the very rare and important consideration that, in their words, “Everything you need is right here, and by any sensible measure, it’s done. Anyone who wants to invest the time, skill and persistence can build on it, or completely re-imagine it with different priorities.”

Hello random Lemming! Just wanted to thank you for this. I consider myself pretty well versed in tech and had not heard of Reticulum. More importantly, reading the docs it feels like I’m reading the writings of someone I agree with on a fundamental level - even about their departure from the public project.

Going to give it a whirl.

Again thanks

Even just getting to a serial console (the limit of current functionality after this merge) is a huge step to making sure Apple’s hardware can be yours well after they stop supporting it.

I’ve tried Asahi on my M1 and it’s excellent as long as you go into it knowing the limitations and how they might affect your personal use cases/requirements.

My daily driver is a Linux workstation which was borne out of needing a multi-monitor setup and my MacBook Air only supporting a single external display. I repurposed my Linux gaming rig into a work machine two years ago and haven’t looked back.

It’s been such a positive experience my next work laptop will likely be a linux laptop, even if I have to give up some battery life to get there.

The gap on user experience is closing fast with all the fumbles Apple’s been making in their increasingly iOS-like experience across all their OSes. Not to mentioned the incredible improvements in a number of popular desktop environments.

Currently the only applications that are MacOS-only for me are Logic Pro (I do use bigwig and Ardour on Linux but 25 years of muscle memory, project files, and sunk costs in hardware and software are hard to overlook) and Fusion 360 (I can’t get the very detailed and well-built Wine path to work for me).

And if I can get a few of my key VST plugins to work on Linux, I can probably say goodbye to Apple forever.

I was a paying customer for over 10 years and it just got worse and worse. I quit several years ago and haven’t looked back.

As it turns out, I love and I have always loved cycling and don’t need anyone else to see that.

I’m not saying that anyone else should behave the same way, you do you, but it was so freeing to just ride for the love of riding. No more “600m of circles” to make it to 200k, no more kudos to every workday commute, just the open road (or trails) and the freedom it provides.

Yes, I no longer race, but I do privately keep a record of my efforts and rides, but they’re now a side effect of the thing I love - not part of the focus.

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The Bun rust re-write.

I use a triple display setup on kde 6 and it’s been excellent for me.

Incredible customization. I have no bottom task managers or panels. Everything up top. Per-virtual desktop customization if you want it.

I’m not on Ubuntu/Kubuntu so I don’t know how they’re shipping it, but it sounds like you might need to spend a little more time exploring the options and menus. Those are a little scattered/obscure in a lot of cases - with things spread out unevenly.

But it does work and is wildly customizable.

In no way am I saying KDE is perfect - but I’ve been daily driving it for almost three years now as my primary development and work machine and it’s been fabulous.

If there’s anything specific, I’d be happy to help, share tips, screenshots, whatever.

Toy Story 3 and 4. Far superior to 1 and 2 if you put aside the groundbreaking CG of the first.

https://youtu.be/06dQaOZIcH0?t=92

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I don’t disagree with you on principle - but I worry what with attention and nuance being nonexistent these days we end up with “we tried it once and it didn’t work” - and never get to a better solution.

I recently heard a possible California governor candidate talk good sense on better ways to tax the wealthy and he made a very reasoned argument against this tax - it changed my mind. Note: am not American.

I have heard a few people talk sanely about the tax and the more I hear the more ridiculous this one time “fee” sounds.

I heard a far better proposal about closing the tax loopholes they use. Wealthy folks are borrowing tax free against unrealized capital gains. They pay little to no tax on it.

It’s not sexy but it’s a way better solution because not only does it tax the people who need to be taxed, it also begins to help people push back against capital being more powerful than labour.

It’s also far less costly to implement. You borrow against unrealized capital gains to live as if it were income - boom income tax.

Tirulo Roundini

I worked on a large(ish) contract (tens of millions) with one of Microsoft’s engineering teams where they were implementing an Azure managed version of software we produced. I would regularly refuse to install teams at the meetings, using teams in-browser only.

It also ensured that the technical project manager had to be the one to transcribe anything in our notes into whatever tools Microsoft was using.

While it was never said, the Microsoft engineers seemed to completely understand and never pushed back against my refusal to a) install crapware and b) not take on work that wasn’t mine.

Not using teams: win win.