Why so many of us love Chess.

But especially this.

https://io.mwl.io/deck/@djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology/117584481610533636

BRB, putting "Nobody's Side" on repeat FOREVER.

My hand will be tied up for six weeks after this shoulder surgery. I won't be able to type.

But the Ocarina of Time remake has me fighting the urge to buy myself a video game system.

Have an opportunity to colo my own hardware rather than rent one. I haven't bought an actual server since... 2008? Uh... how do you do this again?

I need two 1TB NVMe, 64GB RAM, remote KVM. Preferably low power.

RE: https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117583846399929662

<sobs in Writer>

Take note, male loneliness believers.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/friendship-2

(The problem cleared, I can post today's rat, yay!)

Truffle needs me to verify that he has the softest fur of any of his brothers.

Fermi is supervising, because the thumb-beast means well but is basically incompetent. #petRats #rats

RE: https://wandering.shop/@thorncoyle/117581873142089031

All of this.

10% reduced fascism is not the goal.

Return to our normal cruising level of fascism is not the goal.

Take a nap. Get a pizza. Breathe. Then get up and let's fix this crap.

Today's monitors have great resolution, which makes letters unreadably small for us older folks. Expanding the size helps the page, but mouseover text remains illegible.

I can no longer read SMBC or XKCD hovertext. :flan_piteous:

Sent Fermi's photo to the apartment complex manager as a Pet Of The Month candidate and got an answer:

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"Hi Michael!

Thank you for sending in Fermi! He is adorable 🙂

We will get him added to our pet wall."

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He might not be in the newsletter, but he'll be on the wall outside the management office. I'll take it.

That's a wrap of #openzfsmastery Chapter 17, Performance. Perhaps the toughest chapter in the whole book.

I guess I can have lunch now?

"Routinely taking snapshots more frequently than once every five seconds can disrupt the normal flow of transaction groups and conflict with the I/O scheduler and the write throttler. See Chapter 17 for more information but seriously, WHY are you trying to take snapshot every second of every hour, all day, every day?"

Grinding on #openzfsmastery to get something to tech review before my surgery knocks me out for the rest of the year. I would appreciate your support. https://mwl.io/sponsor

The #TwistedPresents Kickstarter is basically complete. All but two rewards are en route.

Thank for your help, everyone! You should have your chunk of heartwarmingly loathsome holiday before the Fat Man hits the skies.

My Saturday: scrambling to finish #openzfsmastery.

Their #Raturday: this.

We are not the same. #petRats #rats

Gotta give credit where it's due.

Charlie Kirk swore that Texas would not turn blue in his lifetime, and he was right.

- 1 cup jasmine rice from the big bucket
- 6 costco chicken nuggets
- sploosh of orange stir fry sauce

serve with 1980s TV and a LOT of air fried green beans

Fulfilled most of the #twistedPresents Kickstarter today, except for the hardcover dropships.

Discussed OpenZFS fragmentation in #openzfsmastery.

An hour of tai chi this evening.

I'll take it.

Fermi, inspecting my paw.

Truffle, supervising.

Quercy, not giving a poop.

#petRats #rats

Been using kagi as my default for a few days, and just realized that they have a "fediverse forums" toggle.

did those bastards really scrape the fedi? :flan_molotov:

[ETA: yes, yes, the fedi is public, but we still ask folks not to index us. Respect the robots.txt.

Also, turns out the CEO is an ass.

Dammit. I'd honestly pay for less shitty search.]

"Look, save us all some trouble and go clone @jimsalter's whole github, okay?" #openzfsmastery #nonotryagain

Today's #60secondsOfWIP is out: "sshd and Emacs"

https://mwl.io/archives/25044 or wherever you get your babble.