I’m rereading Malazan Book of the Fallen this year, but adding in some of the Bauchelain & Broach short stories and maybe a few Esslemont books too. This’ll be the third go round for the first 5 books and the second reread for the last 5. It’s amazing how many tiny details are planted in the first books that pay off by the end of the series. The references, foreshadowing, and thematic follow throughs are insane and I pick up more each time.

I’m in House of Chains right now.

Aaron Pierre was great in Rebel Ridge. The trailer looks like a straight up Netflix dad movie, but it was actually really good. It was directed by Jeremy Saulnier who did Blue Ruin and The Green Room.

The bad guy from S1 of True Detective maybe?

Only two I’ve seen so far were Heretic and Late Night with the Devil. Neither were scary but both were improved by strong performances from the leads.

I also recommend J Kenji Lopez-Alt’s “The Food Lab”. It’s less of a recipe book and more of a how and why you cook book that happens to contain recipes. It’s sort of a mix of ATK and Good Eats.

I should probably clarify that I think my wife did something wrong and not Pop. I ran it smoothly for months before moving to Bazzite on my item machine. She knows enough to be dangerous and may have changed something without knowing what it did.

An atomic system would be more SO proof for me.

I’ve had my wife on Pop for 3-4 months now but she performed some update in the Pop Shop this week that totally borked the bootloader. I was not able to repair or even get it to see her hard drive.

I was able to mount the drive using the Pop live USB and backup her data. I moved her over to Bazzite, which is what I use.

Bosses when the IT dept is furiously responding to an outage: What do we pay you for?

Bosses when everything is running smoothly: What do we pay you for?

It just works for me. I tried it about a year ago when I still had an Nvidia card and Wayland wasn’t playing nice. I’ve since upgraded to an AMD and most things just work out of the box.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gave me some trouble, but that’s just typical for MachineGames’s engine on Linux.

The most difficult thing about Bazzite is figuring out rpm-ostree and package layering. Luckily there isn’t much I need that’s not in the package library.

Being Madison, it could go either way. The Capitol is very lefty, but there’s hillbilly farmland 20 minutes outside town.

Smoking everywhere. For anyone who wasn’t around for the 70s/80s/90s, everything was tinged yellow and smelled of smoke. Car/plane/train seats had built-in ashtrays. Restaurants had smoking sections separated from the non-smoking sections by waist-high walls.

I have asthma and it sucked. Not sure if I grew out of it as I got older or if there’s just not a miasma of smoke around everywhere, but it rarely bothers me anymore.

I was in my mid 30s when I found out that you could hold some button when continuing after game over in Super Mario Bros to continue in the world you died.

We just got gud and abused the turtle shell stair 1up.

I’m part of a CSA with a small, local farm. The winter share was $5 a dozen for 2 dozen every other week. We’ll see if the price goes up for the summer share.

Maybe I’m lucky to be in a city with tons of farms nearby, but I’d encourage others to look for local options like this.

My old washer died about two weeks ago. It was a 30 year old Frigidaire that shorted something and made magic smoke. That was a pretty asshole move.

We replaced it with a Speed Queen and it’s been great so far.

My wife got me a Herman Miller Embody for an anniversary or birthday or something several years ago. It was more than I wanted to spend, but I work from home and it’s incredibly comfortable. It took a little getting used to because I always had cheap office chairs that let me slouch but this makes me sit up straight comfortably.

I’m a few years out of date on most hardware, but I can recommend the Fractal Define cases. They also make RGB monstrosities, but the Define line are sturdy, quiet, and come in solid metal side styles. I’ve had the original XL for probably 15 years now and it’s still going strong. XL is probably overkill, but at the time I had a bunch of old platter drives I was still using

It honestly depends on the person asking. There are people who aren’t complete morons where a call is a valid way to quickly solve a problem or exchange info.

But I sent a guy an email asking a simple multiple choice question, he messages “quick call?”, calls, shares his screen, shows me my own email with his written response in reply, and reads it to me.

The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold is like Horatio Hornblower in space. The main character has dwarfism and accidentally commandeers a mercenary fleet as a teenager.

I agree for the big ones, but we have a local one I’ve subscribed to a few times, for a couple months at a time.

They pull all the ingredients from local farms, do local delivery or pickup at farmer’s markets, and they’re minimal on packaging, and they reuse the bags and ice packs. I haven’t done it in a while but it was pretty nice and it was helpful to break out of the routine of the same meals week in and out.

Everyone else seems to have addressed the cloud part, which I was a little skeptical about too. I understood it is a development aspect, not an end user aspect, so I decided to use it. I’ve been using it as my daily driver for about 6 months and have had no problems.

The atomic part was the biggest hurdle for me, since I wasn’t familiar with rpm-ostree, but I’m getting the hang of it. It’s had the added benefit of keeping me from breaking things through stupid mistakes since I can just roll back my changes.