Krita is an underrated painting/photo/animation/ai-creation tool you should check out
‘Krita is blowing me away. It has proven to be a powerful and versatile alternative to Photoshop for image editing and generation, especially with its AI integration. If you haven’t, you should check it out. After all, it’s free. '
One thing I managed not to compromise on recently is cooking at home and watching my diet a bit more. Maybe it’s easier for me to do because I already enjoy vegetables, but I took it to the next level after I got my Vitemix. Here’s breakfast with some homemade hummus:
So, to fix the KeePassXC issue for Zen Browser, I went the route of installing it from tarball instead of flatpak. This is not a Zen problem - it’s an issue with how KeePassXC works, and the nature of flatpak. Automatic updates work.
Learned a lot of good stuff. Notes will follow.
OK, trying zen browser take two…
The KeePass issue is definitely a Flatpak issue. I Installed Zen from tarball - no problem. Works as expected. What I’m not sure about now is if I need to download the browser each time when there’s an update.
Ah ok. KeePassXC doesn’t work with Waterfox or Zen Browser because these two come as Flatpak on Linux, and these are restricted in a way that prevents connection to KeePassXC. I do have FlatSeal… does anyone have any idea what permissions are needed?
Maybe I should try Zen Browser too
Many folks are seeking alternatives to Firefox due to its declining performance and prioritization of AI features lately. I haven’t used it for a while, but I’m also having hard time with Librewolf and Waterwolf recently, so maybe I should just bite the bullet and try Zen browser?
If I were home now, I’d make myself a nice spicy vegetable soup. I don’t have many good vegan options here.
I think I’m going back to clocking in and out of sub-tasks, even though I said I wouldn’t. It’s easier not to, but the end result, I think, is messier, and I can’t get the clock reports right… on the other hand, it’s kind of an overkill. 🤔
Finished watching: Better Call Saul S6E3, Rock and Hard Place 📺 Ouch. This one hurt. I liked this guy.
Well… a bit more and I’m done with this show. Good stuff.
I couldn’t finish Primitive War 🎥. The story is just too… cliche? Hard to believe? Don’t know. Wasn’t my thing.
Is it just me, or is Apple Workouts acting up? Since the update, it ends walks without prompting while I’m still walking home. During weight training, it aggressively asks if I want to finish after pausing of over a minute I think. I’m multitasking dude, chill!
Sometimes a short nap is all I need. A bit of a snooze and the battery is full after a short night sleep. And in this cold weather… Even more inviting.
Went a bit overboard with spending on gifts. I bought things for myself (the biggest one was the keyboard, without a doubt), but also for my partners and friends. There are also two birthdays around this time, and the look on one of my partners' faces when they saw what I’d gotten them was worth every penny, if you ask me.
All these people adding color to my life, which would otherwise be a constant grumpy gray and dark to navy blue (or, if I feel extra peep, royal blue). I was reminded where I was a decade ago… wow. What a difference.
Today I figured out how to play the very first part of Fur Elise without writing down the notes. It takes me forever, but I think something gets through my thick skull.
Manton mentions he likes to work from coffee shops. He doesn’t care about the coffee’s quality that much.
In my case, some places in the city are better than my homemade espresso, and others are worse. Those who fail this test don’t get a second visit from me. It’s about a 50/50 chance.
18 In New York City today, and this office is so hot (it’s an old building with steam heat), I had to turn on an AC, because it was going over 80 in here, and I’m layered like an onion… 😒
I got a musical keyboard. Because I need yet a new hobby.
After an alcohol-influenced conversation with my brother-in-law, I “impulsively” decided to pursue learning electronic music and buying a keyboard.
Tried HoptoDesk from Linux to my Mac. It works… until I close the lid to my Mac. With the new large desk I just got, I’m thinking maybe it’s not just so bad to slide over to the Mac and work on it as needed…
KDE backups and permissions
You know how “it’s always DNS?” In Linux, I think it should be “it’s always permissions”.
I tried to back up my new Kubuntu setup with the built-in backup program, which seems to be up to the task. It’s nice, clean and minimal (the actual name, by the way, is Kup, but they don’t tell you that; when you look for “KDE backup” or something similar, you get confused with Kbackup, which is a different program).
When I finished setting it up, using my external drive as a backup target, It just sat there telling me the backup program never ran. “OK, yes,” I told it, “I get that, so, start? where’s the button… how do I start you?” I burned some good coffee trying to figure this out.
Kup is configured to prompt the user automatically when everything is ready for the backup task. If something is wrong, well, it will not say anything; it will just wait for you to get things ready.
After a lot of back and forth, I realized that even though I asked my external hard drive to be accessible to all users, in practice, it wasn’t. Only root had access. The solution was to create a folder on the external and change its owner to my user (with good old chown). As soon as I did that, Kup (AKA “Backups) happily nagged me, “Hey, you want to back up your stuff?” And now it’s finally doing the thing. So yeah. Permissions.
Here’s a visual of why I love KDE Activities.
Below, Emacs with one theme playing some music:
And meanwhile, on my work instance, while listening to it:
Love it!
