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Blogging now feels way more cyberpunk than when I started only 5 years ago. It feels way longer than that with everything that's changed.

You can just put stuff on the net on your own site and people will come read it, and a large part of why is simply that it was written by a human.

Tell me what doesn't feel cyberpunk about that while the rest of the net is drowning in writing and images and videos that don't actually exist.

Occasionally someone I follow will go and boost 100 shitposts all at the same time. If you're that person, I want you to know that I appreciate your hard work.

When you plug the final core in, the game will suddenly fade to—

Email's not exactly the most exciting topic in the world, but my post about leaving Gmail sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Here's an update a few months later on how the move to Fastmail went.

https://moddedbear.com/an-update-on-leaving-gmail-for-fastmail/

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Made a little tweak to the links underneath my posts. I think it looks way cleaner than just listing the links unstyled like I was doing before. Really liking how it fits in with the messaging widget too.

Now that I've finally finished reading The Expanse, here are a few quick thoughts on what I loved about the series. Plus a few ideas for what I'll read next.

https://moddedbear.com/you-really-should-read-the-expanse/

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There's been a lot of music released the past several months that I've really been looking forward to. I'm pretty sure my favorite of the whole year so far is Loathe's A Stranger To You. Really great range, well paced, excellent production, and there's not a song on it I don't like. I haven't gotten tired of it since it came out and it's only grown on me more and more.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but In-N-Out after 17 hours awake on 3 hours of sleep goes extremely hard.

I've noticed lately that my phone has a line of green pixels going down the screen now. But the good news is that it's only there sometimes so... 🤷‍♂️

Staying up late because you need to go to bed early the next night. Surely a foolproof idea, right?

Just finished the final book in The Expanse, Leviathan Falls. What a series!

I'm starting to think the multiverse is kind of extremely stupid...

I've had Angine de Poitrine stuck in my head nonstop for weeks now.

The new Loathe album is very good stuff.

In today's episode of things that shouldn't be possible: The LG monitor work sent me auto installed malware to my Windows work laptop overnight. I had to remove a new LG program this morning whose only purpose is to display giant ad popups on startup.

I'm starting to think I need to order a bunch of those "AI slop" stickers and always keep some with me...

Recently ran into the first hiccup after installing Fedora KDE on the new laptop for my wife. She transferred a bunch of photos to it with KDE Connect but couldn't open any of the ones in the HEIC format due to a missing library.

I had to add the RPM Fusion Nonfree repository and install a library from there. It only took a few minutes for me to figure out but that's not a great experience for newbies.

Still, it beats having to debug stuff on Windows.

The Giza level in Indian Jones and the Great Circle is extra immersive with all the heat coming off my PC when I play it.