mastodon 4.7.3I grew up on Vancouver Island, and currently live with my spouse in Sonoma County. Enjoy a weekly hiking ritual to roam different regional parks. Re-calibrate by going north to YPL every year. :-)
Really enjoy my historical research & genealogy. Map various locations in QGIS that interest me, along with open source apps to organize and make sense of my projects.
Migrated from Apple to open source platforms a few + years back. QGIS, darktable, LibreOffice, Jellyfin, Tauon, and MANY others.
Huh, my conspiracy theory would be that Netgear just agreed to give the US government backdoor access to all their routers.
Not sure I'd trust Netgear now.
I hope that people eventually figure out that most large companies have stopped asking permission. They know that their predatory business model is well defended.
A classic album by Harold Budd and Brian Eno (1980). This one has always stayed in my collection.
Features a map detail, which had an influence with my artwork back in the 80's.
Bazzite is really awesome. Even as a daily driver.
I'm testing it out and really grooving to it. An immutable OS is very compelling for certain use cases. Bazzar manages Flatpaks quite nicely. I've been running GNOME, but am going to try out KDE next.
@plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca Welcome to the Fediverse. :-)
Yeah!
#NoDRM #NoStreaming #OwnMusic #MusicCollection
The compact disc isn’t going quietly - Chicago Reader
https://chicagoreader.com/music/music-feature/compact-disc-cd-cds-revival-resurgence/
Well, my NEC monitor finally gave up today (a known issue where the screen goes permanently green).
It was a great HDPI wide-gamut monitor I've had for ten plus years. 🥹 I had two at one time, but the other one gave up a few years ago, for same issue.
Back when I used Macs, I would use SpectraView II to calibrate them. With Linux I would use DisplayCal.
Since NEC was bought by Sharp, and they exited the monitor market, this was my last NEC monitor. Kind of a sad tech moment.
Kind of hard to believe that after our ever increasing cost of living (energy, tariffs, unchecked corporate greed), that people are going to then spend more using AI? Which is yet ANOTHER subscription.
Are we wising up yet to how little we get for buying a phone and subscribing to things we can only rent for the month?
About a year ago (May '25), I was at the top of Helm Craig, looking down on Grasmere. We were staying at the Lancrigg Hotel for a few nights.
I can't express how much I want to return there. I clearly underestimated how many days we should have stayed there. Can one be homesick for a place you don't live in?
I'm not sure if it's a rational feeling, but I could certainly take a few months to hike as many fells as I could.
#LakeDistrict #HelmCraig #LancriggHotel #Grasmere #AlfredWainwright
