My first experience was with two floppy images I found on “So much shareware! Vol.2”.

It was labeled Linux 0.99b, no distro. It was not of much use to me at the time.

A couple of years later I got my hands on Slackware 2.0 on CD. So much time spent compiling your own kernel, because no modules and the whole thing had to fit in main memory (640kB). So much time spent fiddling with xf86config hoping you wouldn’t fry your CRT.

Good times.

Then came gentoo, which had package management. No more did you have to browse sourceforge for endless dependencies to install something. No more did you have to re-install slackware on your root partition to update. So user-friendly in comparison.

Do you know what Whitney Houston’s favourite porn genre is?

Even I can sell $350B worth of energy if I increase the price enough.

Tariffs are a fee paid when goods enter the country.

When your $599 iPad is loaded off the freight ship in the harbour, the receiving company pays 34% ($203.66) to the gubment for the privilege of importing things from China.

Now Apple will have to sell that same iPad for $802.66 (plus sales tax) to cover the tariff.

In theory Apple could start producing iPads in the US instead to avoid the tariff. But US workers want a living wage, paid overtime, health care and PTO, so there’s no chance of being cost effective. Also, most materials are still imported, so they’ll have tariffs, too.

It might make sense to put tariffs on foreign cars to stimulate a domestic auto industry. It might keep a lot of workers at their job, and any dollar they earn will be taxed both as income and again when they spend it.

All-round tariffs like we saw this week just hurt most of the involved parties.

So, how does this affect the involved parties?

• Things get more expensive for US consumers. They can’t afford yo buy as much stuff.

• The US gubment gets extra money.

• Other countries don’t sell as much stuff to the US.

How this affects international relations, and if countries retaliate with tariffs remain to be seen. Anywho, the US is no longer considered a reliable trading partner.

The first week at any job is always exhausting. There’s a lot to take in, and a lot of active decision-making to do. It gets better fast when a lot of small things start going on autopilot.

Long commutes add to the suck.

Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver.

Sailor here.

I’ve put those plastic shower tile mats under my mattress. The ones that help with draining water while keeping your toesies dry.

It lets enough air flow through that it can dry up under the mattress. Others just drill a bunch of airholes in their berths.

Apparently it just affects certain batteries. Those affected can go boom.

I would not go back to the previous version.

Trump has already made it clear that he’s a Russian asset. The only question that remains is if he doing their bidding knowingly.

How would he go about transferring wealth to Putin & pals? He can’t do business with them, because sanctions.

Russia already owns 12% of the world’s crypto.

Trump can inflate their value by pulling shit like this.

Russia: profit.

can’t even imagine what type of job I’d love

Fun fact! Most of us don’t love our jobs. We just do them to have a roof over our heads and food on our tables.

Yes. That’s public agent.

I haven’t done it on Android, but you get to do remote debugging through Safari on a Mac when you plug in a developer-enabled iPhone.

I’d expect Chrome and Firefox to do the same on Android in sone manner.

I enjoyed my time with our newborn, but it’s no vacation. I took 4.5 months of paternity leave in a row.

Sweden us pretty generous with parental leave. Me and the Mrs get 480 days to share between us. 390 of which are at some 80% of our salary. The other 90 days pay peanuts, but great to have when you need some time off to get started with preschool and stuff. You have 90 days earmarked for yourself that can’t be transferred to the other parent.

At 5 days a week those 480 days last two years.

We have a local meshtastic network set up for just this scenario. There’s not s lot of chatter, though.

Telegram used to have these local public chat rooms that anyone could see or join. The common topics were:

• Pokémon go
• Offers to sell sex
• Offers to sell drugs

But I guess Pokémon go is out if there’s no internets.

Finland had to accept responsibility for being invaded by Russia. Also, they had to give away land mass that Russia failed to grab. Also, they had to give up some sovereignty. Also, they had to pay ginormous reparations and sign deals to buy army stuff from Russia.

Nice army stuff, though. I’ve been in a 1995 KRAZ with a wood frame for the driver. Also they don’t have a tap for draining motor oil, because who would expect them yo return from the frontlines?

Calluses build up fast if you keep at it.

The pain is just weakness leaving the body.

I’ve visited the US a couple of times for work.

I’ve been very careful with my wording when they’ve asked if I’m there to work.

Yes, I’m there for work. I’m employed in the EU, and I’m just there representing my employer at a fair or technical meeting. I’ll be gone in a few days.

My colleague didn’t have the same way with his words, but back then they’d just put you on the next plane back.

At that price even ChromeOS would be a better option. You still have all your android apps, plus that little Linux container for most lf your other computing needs.

My wife avoids updating her devices for as long as possible, because “updates only break things”. I think I’ll keep this news to myself, because otherwise I’ll never hear the end of it.

I finally nudged her from a pixel 4a to an 8a for Christmas, so it is on its way to the retirement drawer.