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2025-04-01
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Philip has put a great page together on your options at [[Windows 10 end-of-life]].
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I occasionally have the deep misfortune of ending up on [[Amazon]]. Talk about [[enshittification]]. Endless random brand names, 50 random variations of the same crappy product. โSponsoredโ products. This is not a site that cares about its users.
2025-03-30
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[[Doughnut Economics]] has a nice, simple definition of what a [[system]] is.
- "So what is a system? Simply a set of things that are interconnected in ways that produce distinct patterns of behaviour โ be they cells in an organism, protestors in a crowd, birds in a flock, members of a family, or banks in a financial network. And it is the relationships between the individual parts โ shaped by their [[stocks and flows]], [[feedbacks]], and [[delay]] โ that give rise to their emergent behaviour"
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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[[Wasteland]] has a nice description of [[Oil]]:
- "Most oil deposits are thought to have been laid down between 10 and 180 million years ago, when dead zooplankton and algae sank to the seafloor and were buried in layers of sediment, before being slowly transformed into hydrocarbons by heat and pressure and time"
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Via [[Chris Aldrich]] (| Chris Aldrich), this looks good: [[A System for Writing]].
2025-03-29
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- [[Apple]] started making the most money when they had the platform through which they sold apps made by others and took a percentage of all sales.
- A form of [[Rent]].
- [[Google]], [[Amazon]], others as well.
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I guess this is where itโs quite similar to [[platform capitalism]].
- I guess Varoufakis is saying itโs something qualitatively different, Srnicek is saying itโs a new evolution of capitalism.
- Either way, seem to be in agreement that itโs big, new, and bad.
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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[[Life]] wants to be; life doesnโt always want to be much; life goes extinct; life goes on.
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Iโm returning to a bunch of fleeting notes Iโve logged in orgzly over recent months, that havenโt made it to the garden yet.
2025-03-27
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Windows 10 end of life is becoming a hot topic both at work and locally.
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[[Bookmarked]]
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[[Geology]]. Parts of the crust, parts of the atmosphere
- Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
- Troposphere, โฆ?
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Fuck me, [[snap]] is still taking up so much drive space.
- I donโt have a lot to spare!
- I had to install slack via it the other day. Probably that.
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Maybe, but kf6-core24 is taking up the most space - 10.7 GB.
- Whatโs caused that to be installed?
- Dunno. Itโs something KDE-related. But according to checking
snap connections on various installed snaps, nothing is currently using it.
- Removing with extreme prejudice!
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Also
/var/lib/snapd/ is gigs big.
- Cleared
/var/lib/snapd/cache/.
- Copying some of the above into [[Clearing up drive space used by snap]] for reference for next timeโฆ
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[[How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century]]
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
2025-02-01
- Having an absolutely tedious time trying to figure out why the WiFi keeps on dropping out on some of the devices in our house.
2025-01-24
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Listening to [[The Word for World is Forest]]
- From [[libro.fm]].
- Really enjoying it. The reader is great.
- [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] mercurial as always.
- Though, when I say enjoying itโฆ itโs a bit grim. This Don Donaldson character is a nasty piece of work, pure American colonialist.
2025-01-13
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Reading [[Not the End of the World]]
- Hmm, just plainly stated that [[Degrowth]] is wrong.
- There was a mention of โeffectiveโ optimism. Hope thatโs not aligned with effective altruism.
2025-01-07
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This year, I am celebrating having a 10 year old laptop.
- My [[Lenovo Thinkpad T450s]].
- The release date for the T450s was 2015.
- Though I got it second-hand in 2019.
2025-01-06
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Read and finished [[Four Thousand Weeks]]
- Thick time
- Max Weber and Calvinism
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I liked it in general. Iโm on board with the general gist of the anti productivity sentiments.
- Sometimes it came across a bitโฆ wilfully contrary? Not sure.
2025-01-02
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Planning to update spacemacs to latest.
- As noted recently, usually something breaks in this process.
- So Iโll look at ways to do this with minimal disruption.
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I think trying to do it using multiple config directories seems a good approach.
- Thatโll be useful for if I ever want to run spacemacs and Doom side-by-side, too, for example, or my own vanilla Emacs.
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One issue to resolve first - you need Emacs 29 for the โinit-directory flag. Iโm still on 28.1.
- OK, Iโll try and tackle that first.
- [[Updating to Emacs 29 on Linux Mint]]
2024-12-28
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Reading [[Four Thousand Weeks]]
- The efficiency trap - the more efficient you get, the more things you will fit into to do list, ultimately not gaining any time.
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Productivity techniques are a way of facilitating avoidance of making hard choices.
- By claiming you can get more efficient and fit more in, you can avoid having to decide what not to do.
- Pay yourself first.
- Keep three things in progress.