Signal’s “Note to Self”.

Few decades ago Marvin the Paranoid Android (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) has already been constructed by my human-like parents and is reporting this utmost depressive fact here.

1. Marvin (The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy)
2. K9 Mark III (Dr Who)
3. 11-45-G (Love, Death & Robots)
4. P-5000 Power Loader (Alien) – not a robot per se
5. IG-11 and K2SO (Star Wars) – couldn’t decide which one I prefer :)

Cloud Atlas (2012)
Cube (1997)
The Fountain (2006)

Primer is one the better mind-fucking sci-fi movies.

SublimeText + SublimeMerge (for git). My perfect pair, I’m using for years. I’ve tried Emacs, vim, Neovim, helix and I always return to ST/SM with a sigh of relief.

Pocketbook Lux 5. Great piece of gear, with physical buttons and normal, non-touch screen. Also, comes from a small European company, instead of Amazon.
I manage my collection of ebooks using Calibre - great software.

Star Trek, both the old and new ones
Battlestar Galactica

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

rsync (laptop -> external HDD, workstation -> dedicated backup HDD)
Syncthing (laptop <-> desktop)

Without a doubt, Doctor Who.

Linux Mint

I hope they follow the data. And that more countries, at least in the EU, will follow.

Good news. I really like my FP3+ (with /e/OS), my next phone will be either FP4 or FP5 :)

His Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2023 is the best Emacs review ever :)

This. I’m totally for FOSS, but among four commercial apps that I use (SublimeText, SublimeMerge, Reaper and Bitwig), all four use this older model. You buy a period of free upgrades, but you may keep using the current version as long, as you wish. I see this model as beneficial for user and the company (providing them with money), but also encouraging it economically to continue developing the product. In the case of subscription-based model, I see little reason for the company to improve the product.

It’s high time. Still too few and too late, though.

Religions. All of them.

My personal list is short:

1. Debian (Testing) - evertything works OOTB. Great performance. Stable. Plenty of current packages. Works on my workstation, laptop, RPi.
2. FreeBSD ;) - if you really want an alternative.

I’m using Firefox:

1. uBlock
2. Darkreader
3. Privacy Badger
4. NoScript
5. uMatrix
6. Bookmark Dupes
7. CanvasBlocker
8. ClearURLs
9. YT Enhancer
10. FF Relay
11. Open in Private Mode
12. Open Tabs Next to Current
13. Secure Password Generator
14. Toggle web custom fonts