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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • I don’t have a lot of crazy stories, but I have one unusual story.

    I got to go take a private train with my dad.

    We had one first class car and one locomotive.

    My dad worked in the train industry, he sold equiment used for railroads.

    He called me one day and asked if I wanted to ride a private train, I had time so I gave the only apropriate answer, “yes”.

    So after having worked a night shift I slept far too little, got on the train to the city my dad was in to ride the private train back.

    He was doing a demo of his company’s equipment and had arranged for them to use a private train, I just joined him on the journey to our city as a fun and interesting experience.




  • THE solution is not to buy the wife an Android, that is ONE solution.

    In total, there are a few solutions, I number them to make it easier to refer to them, not to order them from best to worst.

    1. Get yourself an iPhone
    2. Get your wife an Android
    3. Wait for iOS 18
    4. Switch to a messaging app like Element or Signal.

    1 and 2: Unless you yourself can accept switching to using the other system, it is unfair to demand that the other part does that.

    I have tried to switch to Android, I did it back in 2019, but I just disliked the feel of the OS enough that after dropping my phone and smashing the screen after 2-3 months, I didn’t even bother to get it fixed, I just moved back to my iPhone.

    1. iOS 18 will have RCS, and will probably solve this.





  • This is not just one simple question.

    You need to break it down into smaller tasks.

    First things first, you need to get data from a Pixelfed instance, ok, start by looking up how to connect to the Pixelfed API.

    Once you have a way to connect to the API, you need to request the data you need.

    Once you have the data, look at the actual data, do you need to do extra formating?

    Once you have the data, it is time to get/build the display.

    Once you have the display, you need to figure out how to get your computer to talk to it, is it as simple as just sending the number to the serial port or do you need to use something like the GPIO interface on a Raspberry pi?


  • It sounds as you want to evaluate different Linux Distributions.

    DE/GUI is a good one, terminal commands is a bit useless since the vast majority of Linux systems use Bash as default.

    This is what I would look into on a new distro:

    UI - What DE or WM is it using, what is the default config like, and try to learn from that. How is the terminal prompt configured (the default Ubuntu and Debian prompts are terrible, I allways change them)

    Package Manager - how does it work, what software is available?

    Unique software - Does the distribution include some tools, applications or games I haven’t heard about? If so, what do they do, and how do they work.

    This gives me a feel for the distribution and how to use it.




  • I am not angry.

    In general I am content, I have learned to live a lonely life, and while I am dealing with long term, low intencity depression from that, I have found ways to distract myself from thinking about it.

    If I do, then I will cry, though I have long since started seeing crying as a strength rather than a weakness. It gets rid of pent up emotional energy and calms you down.






  • I don’t think about it.

    Really, that is it, I don’t deny climate change, it obviously is real.

    But I am just an IT guy, I live alone, I commute with public transport, I have a small apartment, my car is a PHEV, bought used, consuming 4,5L/100km petrol on average.

    I keep my computer turned off when I am out, I won’t pretend that I am super eco friendly, I do fly from time to time, this year I’ve been to Spain twice. I also enjoy driving my car, but I am cutting back on it.

    When celebs and VIPs are bombing around the planet in business jets, companies and governments are actively working against electrified rail or rail in general, and pushing for more car infrastructure, then I can see that me feeling guilty about driving my car for fun or just to get to cool photo spots won’t make a difference.

    Add to that the huge waste of energy that us crypto, and I have realized that yes we are fucked, but I have time to see cool stuff before everything goes to hell, so I try to use it.

    I am planning on taking a trip down to germany next year and see some cool museums, and won’t feel bad about it.



  • The suggestion I made tells others that you have actively studied the subject.

    If you want to say that you have studied actively, but sporadically, you would say something like:

    “Jag har väl studerat Svenska lite till och från under typ 10 år nu”

    That is a causal way of saying it.

    If you have only passively learned the subject, I would phrase it like this:

    “De senaste 10 åren har jag hört och läst mycket Svenska, och har då lärt mig en del.”

    This puts focus on how you were exposed to a subject and what you learned from it