We're all going to die, so we have to share passwords.

When family die, we already have a mountain of nonsense to deal with, and I have no doubt that we'll see a growing number of people wrestling with American corporations, attempting to regain access to Coinbase accounts, banking apps, et c.

Clearly, we would all …

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Games

I hear Linux podcasts and bloggers pulling themselves back, with an eye to keeping things realistic, and too many end up with unwarranted pessimism.

'You have to admit that computer games are just better on Windows'.

And I won't disagree, but I don't see why they phrase the situation like that.

Linux is the …

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Rick & Morty's parallel episodes show myriad alternative versions. There's Fat Rick, Juggling Rick, et c.

From the point of view of Fat Rick, all alternative Ricks have an easy tell - they are all skinny. And of course the Drama-Morty can instantly spot alternative-universe Morties because they don't have the same …

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My phone bings three times, and I really want to tell it 'listen, matey, if I haven't answered the first three bings, I won't answer the next'. I wander over and tell it to shut up.

Of course if I forget to turn off silent mode, I could miss something important in a few hours. The entire approach here misunderstands …

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The FOSS community have generally grown a kind of tacit acceptance of proprietary computer games. Everyone loves them, so nobody wants to make too much of a fuss, but I think we have good reasons to treat them differently.

Computer games do not - by default - require environment interaction. They can (mostly) operate …

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I never had the money for serious gaming, and perhaps it did me well; I've focussed on other things. But when the pandemic hit, I decided that this was exactly the time to start playing again, so I bought Tomb Raider from 2013.

Having not played anything much since Metal Gear Solid 3, I was blown away. The seamless way …

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If you haven't heard of him, he could only have been described as a 'mad genius'.

Looking at his work, I found myself astounded by the fact that if he hadn't existed, I would have sworn that what he did was impossible.

He made a full operating system.

At this point, before learning that he actually did this, I would …

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I bought a Sony PRS-600 e-reader, and it's great. I've started reading again, after not reading any books for some years.

Nothing could be easier. You plug it into a computer, stick on an epub book or pdf, then the e-reader lists the books you have, keeps the last page open of the books, and lets you make notes. This …

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This isn't advice. If I have any advice, it's just to try various things and find out what works for you.

When it comes to productivity tools, I focus always on speed before and above anything else. If some new tool has a wonderful new feature, but takes three seconds to load, it's off the table. I won't even consider …

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I've never been able to focus.

I'll be cleaning, or messing with spreadsheets for work, and all of a sudden I wonder 'could you type prose in the international phonetic alphabet (IPA), so you could put accents into a book properly?'. And then I think 'can I use the IPA as a keyboard layout, like I use the Polish …

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