He said BIRD mounts and he meant it. It is up to us to rise to the level where we too can use bird mounts.

Framework laptops are not great actually. They basically are offloading their qa/qc onto customers. They routinely ship defective units new out of the box and try to make you do all their engineering work for them.

The quality of the components is meh at best. If I were doing it again, I would go the ThinkPad route.

Framework is a bunch of VC funded shills who see the right to repair movement as a resource they can exploit.

Beets.

Or bears.

Or buttsex.

It’s context dependent, like “cool”.

This is 100% true.

It is especially clear when you sit down to write out an idea or plan that you think is fully formed in your head. It turns out that you didn’t have it all thought out and the act of writing is where the important details get worked out.

Writing is thinking, diagramming is thinking, making any external expression of an idea is thinking.

Sitting around with a cool universe in your head is not thinking, it is feeling. Put it in a tangible communicable form, then okay you have turned it into thinking.

He’s SUCH a flake!

Exactly! It’s time to circle up and be our own fact checkers to the extent we can.

Everyone knows someone who knows more than they do about something.

I gave it the P2P journalism name mostly to get this discussion going. I figured it would draw in a crowd of the deep geeks who love that stuff.

But really, we can’t trust any information on the internet completely. We need trusted networks of real people in our lives to ground us in lived reality.

I especially like the idea of not just passively being angry or upset at news. Yes I consider too much online venting to be a passive activity, as in ineffective.

Check in with a friend, everyone likes to be asked their opinion and they probably need to be needed right now too.

Scruffy the janitor knows more than you about toilets, boilers and boilng toilets. Think to ask him when the bowl is steaming.

I’m just saying maybe we should all get out more?

So correct. The time to chill out is after we have all talked to each other instead of solving it all on our own.

Way too complex!

Stop stewing.

Seek comfort in the counsel of friends!

Oh that’s the point though. Even people who don’t think they are “well-connected” are just a few hops from Kevin Bacon. Or a person who works at a bank during a banking crisis. Lots of folks know people who work at a bank.

The point is to stop stewing and start asking. Ask anyone who might know even a bit more than you on a particular thing.

Doesn’t that seem healthy?

No you don’t know that. You are repeating a trope without substance. Sure there’s probably huge waste at the pentagon but that’s not on the chopping block here.

I can’t believe people don’t get that. They are trying to delegitimize the parts of our government that help us.

You might need to pause and think a bit more. Corporations are competing for money. There isn’t just one big pile of money somewhere.

Probably not great ever, but Plenty of Fish yielded some decent prospects when it was nothing more than a web based classified ad. But those days are long gone.

Find one named Iain and radicalize him! So it would be the Butler Iain Jihad.

Can they get worse?

Can’t speak to the effectiveness of the baldness cure, but the model in the stock photo has cured ED, I am sure.

When you go to report an issue, and select “Name is wrong”, the send button never activates, whereas “something else” will.

So this is a bit of capitulation that seems to be hard coded and they just don’t want to hear about it.

My own research has made a similar finding. When I am taking the piss and being a random jerk to a chatbot, the bot much more frequently violates their own terms of service. Introducing non-sequitur topics after a few rounds really seems to ‘confuse’ them.

This is prophetic and yet as clear as day to anyone who has actually had to rely on their own code for anything.

I have lately focused all of my tech learning efforts and home lab experiments on cloud-less approaches. Sure the cloud is a good idea for scalable high traffic websites, but it sure also seems to enable police state surveillance and extreme vendor lock-in.

It’s really just a focus on fundamentals. But all those cool virtualization technologies that enable ‘cloud’ are super handy in a local system too. Rolling back container snapshots on specific services while leaving the general system unimpacted is useful anywhere.

But it is all on hardware I control. Apropos of the article, the pendulum will swing back toward more focus on local infrastructure. Cloud won’t go away, but more people are realizing that it also means someone else owns your data/your business.