Joe Brockmeier / is on Nostr

Music junkie, Linux user, vim loyalist. Fan of polar bears, cats. Graduate Steven Wright school of motivational speaking. Opinions my own, etc.

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2024-07-22 21:35:11

Anybody have a good recommendation for a ergonomically friendly travel keyboard? Trying to type anything substantial on a laptop is just annoying as heck for me.

2024-06-14 17:24:10

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@npub1wup…ydzp I'm picturing Meg finding me in the kitchen using the salad spinner for this... should be an interesting reaction.

2024-06-10 20:43:42

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@npub18yv…xxyn I have the same thing sometimes with Slackware Linux. Sometimes "just because" is sufficient. 😃

2024-05-28 14:48:22

Someday I will stop typing :wq in other text editors / programs to save and quit my work.
Someday. That day, apparently, is not today.

2024-04-14 17:56:17

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@npub18yv…xxyn you remember Stronghold Enterprise Web Server?

2024-04-07 23:04:27

Organizing some music files today and noticed that I have two directories for Sleater-Kinney, "Sleater-Kinney" and "Sleater‐Kinney".
After a little WTF'ing and eyeballing them, I finally checked the Unicode for them. One uses U+2010 (Hyphen) and the other uses U+002D (Hyphen-Minus). 🤔

2024-04-01 12:33:03

Bit of a rough weekend. Our most senior lab (nearly 14!) had been having some behavior changes (extra barky, losing weight) and last exam showed cancer.
A few days ago she started showing more signs of distress and discomfort (whining, heavy breathing, what seems to be disorientation). I had hoped she'd rally, have a few more good weeks or months, but it doesn't seem to be going that way.
We decided we should say goodbye tomorrow, after the oldest can come home from college to her. It sucks.

2024-03-24 17:03:33

Now that I've finally pulled the trigger on a Framework laptop, I'm super impatient for it to get here. Good problem to have, it's nice to be excited for something like a kid on Christmas morning.

2023-08-14 16:53:54

I sympathize with political campaigns trying to raise money and/or get awareness, but literally every time I've gotten onto a campaign or cause list the volume of emails is unbearable.
A daily cadence is utterly unacceptable. If you're cluttering my inbox daily I don't care what the cause is, I'm unsubscribing. (I'd grant an exception for, like, the 7-10 days before an election.)
Just me? How do campaigns not understand they're turning off their supporters?

2023-08-13 22:56:38

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@npub18yv…xxyn I feel compelled to point out that the same is true for RHEL. Unless I’m mistaken, AWX isn’t *exactly* the same as its product counterpart. It isn’t “bug-for-bug” compatible, but it’s feature complete (I believe). Same for RHEL -> Stream.
But I agree on the collateral damage part: I disagree with a lot of the complaints / takes / reactions but they were entirely predictable. Especially other companies using it as cover to do their unpopular thing.