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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Breath of the Wild and moreso Tears of the Kingdom.

    Not bad games. But not Zelda games.

    BoTW did not play into the metroidvania that I felt defined a Zelda game. Plus it lent on the “sim rpg” style of eating, cooking, durability, etc.

    Then ToTK just felt like a gimmicky cash grab. Copy paste terrain, “gadget building” straight out of some steam early access game.

    Ultimately, both games felt like a hodgepodge of stolen concepts, slapped together. And the adoration that they received just makes me hate them more.




  • Could be anything.

    Something decides it’s going to fill your disk up with noise and plex enters a crash loop as it can’t write to disk any more.

    Your reverse proxy decides it’s not going to issue valid SSL certificates so all your plex clients refuse to connect.

    One day an OS update decides your network configuration wasn’t important, and your OS throws a shit fit because there’s no route to 192.168.1.100 any more







  • So many reasons.

    • encourages good pre-planning
    • discourages underhand pre-planning
    • gives me the chance to talk to the other parent first
    • removes any unwanted pressure from anybody involved who doesn’t want it, but might feel pressured into saying yes because they’re already there.
    • most importantly. I (the adult) want to make the most of you (the child) being out of the house. I could have gone out to dinner, thrown a grownups party, etc.


  • My gripe with wayland is how it made desktop environments less composable.

    With x11 you could sort of mix and match your DE and WM. I could have all the “it just works” everyday computing from Gnome/KDE/xfce/whatever, and the workflow-boost from a Tiling WM. In some cases, making it work was a bodge but it worked.

    Now, with Wayland, your WM is effectively your DE. It’s now a constant choice of “do I want tiling? Or do I want to print something, or be able to change my resolution, or to plug a USB stick and mount it without remembering the arcane incantations”.

    I just want to be able to print something, and have virtual workspaces per monitor. I could live without tiling.