Well, I got sweet nothing done that I actually planned on doing this evening, but I had an interesting evening (re)discovering how to a) install additional fonts system-wide on Ubuntu, and b) necessarily figuring out how to access a mounted USB thumb drive from the cli. (All the documentation talks about is how to un/mount the damn thing, but that’s uselessly redundant since Linux does that for you automatically. Bah!)

I got there in the end.

NB: font families are much harder to come by…
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Further details:

Heads up anyone in the Belfast area:
Daisy, a nervous young Lab cross, is missing & needs our help to get home to her family.

Please keep yer eyes peeled, and RT/cross post to other SM platforms for greater reach.
(See below for more details.)

Let’s get this lovely wee woofer home safe! 👏👏

https://www.doglost.co.uk/dog/204269

To all techie nerds:

I was today years old when I learned that apparently you’re supposed to reapply thermal paste to a laptop roughly once a year, to keep it in tip-top shape.

😮

Is this just gamers-gone-mad nonsense, or have I been computing all wrong for the past 30yrs? Cos I’ve had plenty of laptops, they’ve all lasted 5-6yrs and still been working when I bought the next one, and I’ve never applied thermal paste in my life…

🤷‍♀️

Your thoughts are much appreciated. 🙏

Calling all knowledgeable nerds (@withaveeay and anyone you toot back & forth with):

Can anyone recommend a good cross-platform ereader device? I like my Kindle, but I want to break free of Amz. Similarly no Nook, and unless someone can convince me otherwise, no Kobo.

I don’t want to be tied to any DRM platform; if I’m going to convert 1k+ books to a non-DRM ePub format, I want something I can store/read them on without 👀 being monitored by AI/algorithms.

Many thanks in advance!