I am officially back on #Android with my Pixel 9. It feels like coming home. Sure, there are some quirks, but it's nice to not feel so constrained.

I explained to Gemini that I have burned most of the interpersonal bridges in my life, saying that I basically nuked what ties I severed. I further explained that no one who remains will talk to me, my mental healthcare provider hasn't responded to my email from earlier this morning, and that I am completely alone for today and tonight. It told me to call a crisis hotline and then said goodbye.

I just had to laugh. Not even the LLM wants to talk to me! That's hilarious.

I set up a SearXNG instance on my TrueNAS machine over the course of the night, proxied it, and set it as the default search engine on Zen. I'm extremely impressed so far.

I will not beat around the bush. NotebookLM is incredible. It generated a "podcast" episode from my philosophy notes. It pulls in the quotes I copied, but the "hosts" are using what I wrote for their back and forth.

Also, the Scoop package manager for Windows is amazing. I never knew about it.

I'm giving #Playnite the ol' college try on my Windows 11 LTSC machine. So far, it's pretty awesome, even if some things aren't playing nice with my theme.

I had a more invigorating "chat" with an LLM (DeepSeek) than anything I've encountered from someone else recently. We discussed asociality, a truly self-sufficient, socially minimalist life, and rejecting the social pressure to connect with others (especially since the costs, I find, significantly outweigh the benefits).

Hell, it even bade me farewell on its own. I went in with no expectations, just with a simple query. And I came out refreshed.

I’m considering selling my 2TB ROG Ally X and getting the Legion Go S with #SteamOS and the Z1 Extreme chip. The latter looks way more comfortable, the screen looks better, and it ships with SteamOS natively. Sure, a smaller battery, but I find the Ally X to be very uncomfortable to hold (especially as compared to my Steam Deck OLED). The Legion Go S looks like what I’m after.

Also, the Zen Browser is officially my new favorite. It's fantastic on all desktop platforms. And now that I won't be using an iPhone, Safari has become far less useful on my MacBook.

Oh, and now a plugin that shows historical pricing for games in the Store, including if there's a deal elsewhere.

And in my latest news, I picked up a BNIB #Pixel 9 for a killer deal (cheaper than a new Pixel 9a), so I'll be officially switching back to #Android after a few years on iOS. I'm looking forward to having access to more FOSS apps and the like.

The world of #Steam theming and configuration is new to me. I, of course, knew about Decky Loader, but with Steam on my Windows 11 LTSC desktop, I have a Tokyo Night Adwaita theme (which hides my Library sidebar), a plugin for SteamGridDB, and a play time tracker for non-Steam games.

Call me crazy, but I still much prefer rear-mounted fingerprint scanners to in-display ones.

My Pixel 5 with LineageOS 22 is a killer little phone. I love this thing still, all these years later. What a great device, especially for one-handed use.

#postmarketOS now boots on Apple iPhone X (Global)!
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/tree/master/device/testing/device-apple-d22 #linux

I adjusted my #Obsidian daily journaling template, so now it shows all notes created or modified in a given day with a Dataview query wrapped in Templater code. I'm pretty proud of it.

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

GOG Preservation Program expands with Devil May Cry HD Collection, Devil May Cry 4 and more classics https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/gog-preservation-program-expands-with-devil-may-cry-hd-collection-devil-may-cry-4-and-more-classics/

#GOG #Gaming #PCGaming #RetroGaming #DevilMayCry

It amazes me that I still need to manually fix the incredibly slow Steam download speeds on Linux.

It arrived today! I need to upgrade the storage, though. I think 256GB is the minimum, but I might opt for 512GB. But the device is beautiful. I got the blue colorway.