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I used to travel a lot. I used to commute to Australia for work. Realised today I haven’t left New Zealand since 2019. And haven’t been north of Hawkes Bay or south of Nelson since 2022. And you know what? I absolutely do not miss it.

We didn’t really have a summer at the beginning of the year. And winter has been calm but dark. I’m so glad the days are getting longer. It’s so nice getting home with some leftover daylight.

I see YouTube videos with subject like building a “cyber deck”, or “pocket computers are back” or “I built a computer into a keyboard”. And as much of an IT professional and Linux/CLI person I am, when it comes to practically, yes these are cool projects, but I just use my phone for the same things.

I’ve actually encountered a useful application of AI - automatically written git commit messages. Makes documenting changes extremely easy. Of course it’s a free feature, so won’t stop the approaching AI bubble bursting.

There are many things which bug me about Star Trek Picard, despite me enjoying it. But the most egregious in my option is they renamed the USS Titan (NCC-80201-A) to the Enterprise G. It should have been called the USS Picard. It was right there.

After years and years and years I can finally use git like I know what I’m doing.

I’ve been musing since buying my new M2 MacBook Air. There are very few things I actually need an Apple computer for. One is my Photos in the Photos/iCloud and I like to have my own copies backed up. The other is Messages and a Unix-like OS with a native terminal. A Pi 5 could be enough…

In concept, a 16 TB NVME-based NAS would be great. The thing holding me back is that’d cost thousands of dollars, and spinning disks are still way, way cheaper. My current NAS is a jank 4TB mirrored BTRFS mount on a 10 year old NUC, accessible via a ProxMox VM. It works… but a man can dream.

Dr Bashir in Foundation!

The season 1 finale of Murderbot 🥲

So glad it’s been renewed for a second season.

Instead of getting therapy, men went ahead and developed Kubernetes and Terraform.

The DuckDuckGo web browser is really good. Only downside I can se is there’s no tab groups and device-device tab group sync like I use extensively in Safari.

The 11th of July is the season finale of Murderbot and the season 3 premier of Foundation. And then the week after is the season 3 premier of Star Trek Strange New Worlds. It’s a golden time for TV sci-fi.

It’s been a week since I’ve had a laptop again. And it’s taken that long to get my email inbox from ~300 emails down to 3. Inbox zero is in sight.

After working for 3 years returning into the world of IT, I can confidently use vi to edit files without wanting to murder everyone around me. Not that I enjoy using it. I’ll be an EMacs man until the day I die.

80 grams of hops into an 8 litre batch (2.1 gallons in ridiculous units), seems like a lot. But I over-hopped my last batch, and it was amazing, so 🤞🏼

Bought a laptop. M2 MacBook Air 16GB RAM, 1 TB. This is the same laptop I bought a couple of years ago (sold my old one to my parents for cheap because there’s was getting to a point). Less than 2/3 the price I paid at the end of 2022. And still a great machine.

After not having a laptop, or full blown computer, at home I’ve been considering whether I need one. Maybe I could get everything done on an iPad? With the new windowing system. Just needs a terminal and proper file management. And to be cheaper. And what I’m describing is a MacBook.

I’m watching a road cop show from Australia. Two things stand out. There’s a hell of a lot of Aussies driving while on meth. And man it’s so good not owning a car.

Nerd time. I’ve decided I need a laptop again. It’s been a great 6 months, but my iPad Pro is steadily dying and I can’t do everything on my phone (my only other computer).

My requirements are a Mac, with 1 TB drive. I can get an M2 w/ 16 GB RAM for NZ$2k, or an M4 for NZ$2.8k. Is the M4 worth it?

I will not buy video games for one hundred and fifty of the lord’s own New Zealand dollars, each.

Just saw a trailer for The Expanse: Osiris Reborn. Was quite excited there was a spin off show. Unfortunately it’s a game.

I think I have to concede and come to peace with the fact that I can’t type on touch screens and autocorrect is actively working against me.

I did an experiment, switching from New Zealand Marmite to Vegemite. Marmite has a lot of sugar in it (it’s the second ingredient) and Vegemite has none. Whanau, Vegemite is so bad in comparison. Just gross.

After not owning a car for over three years, and commuting by bike for that long too, I was thinking this week if I’d own a car again. And at this stage I can’t imagine buying and maintaining one ever again. What an absolute waste of money and resources and space.