Dave Grohl’s speech at Lemmy Kilmister’s funeral is beautiful though.

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis. I’m liking it a lot so far. It’s undeniably Ellis, but he also feels more open and honest this time around. Maybe he’s getting old and more comfortable in his own skin.

The interface is a bit bare bones and 90’s but I like it that way. It’s a good and reliable client.

I’m reading a book on grief. Grief has been an important part of my life for a good long time now, but last year has been difficult. And things will only get worse in the next few years. I suppose I’m bracing myself, even if I know it doesn’t help much.

Can’t help you there, I buy CDs and lossless copies from Bandcamp and Qobuz. Those work for me.

I’m sorry, but that’s private.

“Install Gentoo” is a meme, not life advice. With Gentoo, the installation process gives you good insight in to the internals of Linux systems and compiling (almost) everything from source is interesting, but won’t produce noticeable benefits for average users. Especially since updates take some time, what with compiling the programs again. Gentoo is a great distro with a fantastic package manager, but unless you’re an enthusiast or a serious hobbyist, Don’t Install Gentoo.

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Carl Sagan.

I’m finishing up Metro 2035 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. I think it’s a big improvement over Metro 2034, but doesn’t quite reach the heights of Metro 2033. Completely dropping the supernatural aspects of 2033 was a weird choice, but 2035 seems to be a very thinly veiled criticism of modern Russian society, attitudes and power structures. Luckily it works, but the series loses a lot of its character without the incogitable horrors. Though I guess in the end, humans are always the real monsters. Good book. Not yet sure what I’m reading next.

I not too long ago played this game and, while flawed, found it to be a very decent game with a lot of potential. My biggest gripe personally is that it devolves from an engaging and clever stealth game to a mass murder simulator, and the main character isn’t terribly likable by the end. Still, I enjoyed it quite a bit and might even replay it some time.

Especially Berserk.

After finishing Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson I opportunistically picked up Rutger Bregman’s Humankind: A Hopeful History. It’s pretty good, though I find some of his conclusions suspect, in part because I’m inclined to hope they are true. Underneath all this internet grime I am, after all, an optimist with high hopes for humanity. I have to be careful with that pesky confirmation bias.

I also picked up some comic books from the library to have some variety.

It will be exciting to see Kamala and Trump debate whether Gecko or Blink should be the industry leader.

Librewolf, though I don’t really consider it a fork, more like a repackaged FireFox with sensible defaults. So far it’s been great and I hope it stays around for a while.

[Richard Stallman] usually does not browse the web directly from his personal computer. Instead, he uses GNU Womb’s grab-url-from-mail utility, an email-based proxy which downloads the webpage content and then emails it to the user.

If you’re not doing this you’re not properly paranoid.

Aw yeah, I also love browsing the internet on meth!

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Mandriva was a Linux distribution that went out of business years ago. OpenMandriva is one of the projects that rose from its ashes with some of the same personnel and code base. It is an independent (not a fork) and community run distribution that, I think, does quite a lot with very limited resources.

I haven’t been able to solve CAPTHCAs in years.

Corporate backing is a two-edged sword, unfortunately.