Atheist, technopagan and vegan.

Last night I saw this film. It lived up to the reviews I read. More of the same compared to Avatar 2. The first film was amazing. New, fresh, a wonderful world. Film 2 added more violence, more explicit greed, more human nastiness. Film 3 almost topped that. Don't get me too wrong: the Pandora imagery is amazing, the water world of film 2, the wind travelers of film 3, incredibly done. Alas, the amount…

I own a BlueSound Node unit. It's great. I used to have a Sonos Port but that was starting to get limited as far as the phone application goes. After this upgrade, the same procedure would give me about 25 songs and repeat those. No matter how often I would restart the Node or my phone, the same 25 songs appear. That gets boring rather quickly. I am creative. If you don't believe that, look…

Yesterday evening I had to let my cat Nera go. Only 5 weeks after her brother Mylo had to leave us. They were old, yes. Mylo was 18.5 years, Nera 19. It hurts very badly, having to do this, because you want to keep them with you forever, but you know that won't happen. Never. Instead you have to be brave and honest, and do the right thing. Let them sleep forever when they're too…

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day it begins not to just tolerate, but take special delight in differences in ideas and life forms. Gene Roddenberry

Poor start. The talk initially was about an Australian philosopher who apparently thought humans were the pinnacle of evolution. Until her canoe was attacked by a crocodile and she realised that the crocodile considered her no more than food. Her initial thought, so it was said, was: "This can't be. I'm an elevated human. I can't be animal food." Of course this came out after she'd been rescued. That shocked me, because how far do…

Customer: "Can we just not complete the power cycle?" IT Helpdesk: "Okay, I'm going to need you to turn it off." Customer: "...and on again?" IT: "No, off is fine." This speaks to my heart. This is something I want to tell so many clients... (but I'm not allowed to).

Poor Elon. No one understands his pain! He's an asshole.

Janis Joplin If the first you did when reading "Joplin" was thinking of this singer, I already like you. Janis Joplin was amazing. Alas, this post is not about her, but about the program called Joplin. It's what Evernote does, just a bit different. Joplin is open source, which is my preference. Joplin allows for synchronisation through various means, like NextCloud and AWS S3, and also their own Joplin Cloud. Great for use on many…

Looking into options besides Bitwarden, in the Buy European craze, I went out to find stuff. Backups of your data are supported on the phone through Settings/Tools. Data are saved in CSV or an encrypted container. You're prompted to protect the export with a password and then you can store it to your device or any connected cloud service. One thing: TOTP (One time password, MFA) isn't working (perhaps due to the free account) and…

Linux is a wonderful operating system. But let's face it, even wonderful operating systems can sometimes lock up or freeze. Have you ever experienced that? I have. So what to do when nothing responds any more? Most logical option: press power until the machine switches off. Unfortunately you risk corruption on the disks. Usually nothing bad, and fsck will be able to correct that, but it's not funny. There is a better way, using boring…