Just started dipping my toes into the world of Stanislav Lem with the Star Diaries. Beginning with the Seventh Voyage, it feels like part Douglas Adams, part Joseph Heller, part 60's sci fi. I think i'm already hooked.
#scifi #books
Jems
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Doing 'RLE' things - walked out of the house down to the local shops, bought some lunch and walked back and... nothing happened. So easy to get all up your own head, while back in real life land, people are so unobservant, or just don't care.
Totally buzzing but also want to make it much more normal and not be freaking out and building it up beforehand. Can't be at 180 heart rate to go shopping lol. Guess it just takes time.
Simultaneously feeling the closest to transition while also feeling the most beat down by the whole impossibility of it all...
#joy
First time packing for a 'mini' break as Jems and omg its not all going to fit! No half-assed commitment to it allowed even if i wanted to... #minibreak
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Ooo. Quizzy Mondays are back on BBC2.
#mastermind #onlyconnect #universitychallenge
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Get dancing - #QuizzyMondays is back!
4 losses (usually the word forms with multiple starting letters, so comes down to a guess)
Starting word: IRATE (best word, fight me...)
So good to have #KLEO back
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Back to the #Discworld for #LunchtimeReading today and we enter the world of newspapers and The Truth, by #TerryPratchett.
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret.
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Current state of my Linux laptops:
ThinkPad T14 Gen 3: Fedora 40 (KDE spin)
I just did a fresh install in the past week-ish to migrate to KDE from GNOME, and wanted a fresh start.
ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 (AMD): Debian 12 with GNOME
Previously ran Pop!_OS with the development version of COSMIC DE. I wanted a Debian-based laptop to more closely reflect the Debian servers that I use to host my Wait Wait Stats stuff. I'm not going testing or unstable, since I don't run those on my servers.
Surface Pro 3: Fedora 40 (KDE spin)
I did a fresh install this week to clear out some of the lingering issues from an install of a pre-release version of the KDE spin of Fedora 40.
I initially wanted to see how FreeBSD would run on the Surface Pro 3, but I didn't want to tempt fate as I sometimes take the Surface with me on the go.
So yeah, 4 distros it is... It says something about how great things on #linux are that its so hard to choose one.
Honorable mentions:
#Linux #Mint - for all the love it gets, i wasn't that impressed - it failed to find my wifi drivers, it broke/usurped Ubuntu's Grub, runs an older kernel than all the previous mentions. Uninstalled as at that point i was pretty settled on KDE as my desktop.
Kubuntu - considered installing as a seemingly logical choice of Ubuntu plus KDE. Feels a little bit pointless (like a lot of Ubuntu based distros) but might still spin it up for a look.
Candidate no.4 #Manjaro 24.0.
Positives - super smooth install, straight into Wayland KDE 6 desktop and a way into the Arch ecosystem.
Negatives - its not Arch (btw)...
Also want to keep this one around as a rolling distro and see how it feels/breaks...
Candidate no.3 #Fedora Workstation 40
Positives - nice balance of 'embrace the new shiny' but not the madness of the absolute bleeding edge.
Negatives - maybe the same thing.. best of both worlds, worst of both worlds?
Need to probably run if for a full support cycle to find out. Hence - kinda want to keep that around too...
Candidate no.2 #Debian 'Trixie' Testing,
Positives - its still very stable. Swapped out boring Gnome for shiny KDE and its great, its Debian... also, best logo?
Negatives - old software (where i'd want it to be more up to date) - deb version of FF was 1.15 (swapped it for a flatpak of the latest 1.26. KDE is v.5 etc.
Again i still want to keep it, even if not as daily driver, having a stable distro around for certain things would be nice...
Candidate no.1 #Ubuntu (24.04 LTS).
Positives - It kinda just works. I like its implementation of #Gnome. Easy to find Ubuntu specific support.
Negatives - snaps are controversial (not sure i care).
Feels like if you're going Ubuntu, then its easier not to to be in a fight with it about things like that (that's what i'm trying to escape from Windows...)
Thinking even if don't want to daily drive it, i still want to keep it around.
I bought a mini pc to try out different #linux distros, with the plan to pick one to use as my daily driver on my laptop. Its been a very interesting and fun couple of weeks tooling around, breaking, re-doing, updating and hacking about, but no nearer to deciding which one to pick...
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