With the news that Google is going to "supercharge" Maps with "AI" (and the poor results I've had with Apple Maps), I finally checked out OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/
OMG THIS IS AMAZING. So much more useful detail! Incredible! Going to dig up an app for my phone and use this for a while to see how it compares to the ad- and AI-ridden nonsense.
One of the classes of software that I'm always dissatisfied with is to-do lists. Wunderlist was actually great, until MS closed it down; their "re-imagining" as MS To-Do is not great.
When I practised Getting Things Done I used OmniFocus, which is awesome but not portable enough (I need Linux support, too).
Currently using Remember The Milk, but going to try Todoist for a bit.
I've got udev rules that trigger a shell script when I turn the mouse off/on. That's the first part!
Still haven't been able to find a way to use libinput, kcfg (Python CLI for modifying KDE settings), probably something else to disable the touchpad or stop processing its events.
Hey laptop, if you're running on battery power, why are the fans going?
I mean, I assume it's because Intel CPUs are space heaters, but you're supposed to be thottled down on battery.
Lack of fan noise and amazing battery life are the main draws towards Mac hardware for me. Lack of discrete GPU and the ridiculous Apple tax on RAM/storage are the things keeping me away.
This thing is claiming ~4 hours battery time though, which isn't bad on Intel hardware w/a GPU available.
I used DuckDuckGo before, but it's results have been getting worse, and they seem to be focusing on "AI" which is just going to make things even more useless. I haven't used Google in years, but I haven't heard anything good.
My birthday is in 12 days. I have been ordered to provide "ideas" for gifts. I have apparently achieved englightenment and don't want anything (other than "time" or "relaxation" or "a new job").
So far my list of (bad) ideas is just "Kobo gift card" and "Steam gift card".
What do normal people ask for for their birthdays? 'cause apparently I need ideas.
DNS seems fucky on my laptop, but not for anything else in the house. Kubuntu is haunted (this started after upgrading to 23.10), but I don't have time to switch distros...
Symptoms: Lookups timing out, new connections take too long to start.
My father-in-law came with a old Dell XPS13 that we sent him before Windows 11 was released. It hadn't been turned on since we sent it (no Internet at his old house anyway).
I turned it on yesterday and installed an hour's worth of Win10 updates. Rebooting gave me: the out-of-box experience, 2+ nags about using an MS account, 3+ nags about OneDrive needing auth, and several cmd.exe windows popping up.
This ticked me off enough to install Linux Mint on it instead. He's fine with it. #mint
I was going to mess around with Lemmy but I enabled 2FA yesterday, and somehow failed to update 1Password with the 2FA. So, I guess I've lost that account. 🤷
There were no recovery codes offered when I enabled 2FA. Sigh.
Problem: Thunderbird's calendar loses the ability to update my Google Calendar. I assume this is Google messing with OAuth or Thunderbird specifically to "encourage" direct Google Calendar use.
Solution: Host my own CalDAV server.
This will probably give me two problems (or more).
