A view of the Lake District from Lancaster. A little dusting of snow on the peaks.
Feels like Spring is *almost* here! Thank fuck. Think I was starting to get SAD.
Author: Neil Mather
Finished Dune off the other night. It was a bit Shakespearian, duelling families, noble characters, sweeping arcs of history and all that. Soliloquys. I did enjoy it and finished it off quickly. But on reflection I can’t say I really actually *liked* any of the characters very much. Interesting yes, do I care what happens to them, not so much.
On the plus side I can watch the David Lynch film now.
Good article on ethical/repairable options for smartphones. Of course the most ethical phone is the one you already have, but… good to see some interest in the repairability of newer phones. Teracube is interesting with their very reasonable flat fee for repairs for 4 years.
https://www.androidcentral.com/best-sustainable-repairable-phones
Right to Repair was included in the European Commission’s Circular Economy Action Plan. This is great news – first steps towards making repair commonplace in Europe (again…)
Very pleased to have stumbled across org-roam (https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/introducing_org_roam/).
I think it’ll be the next step I wanted for my personal wiki that I’ve been keeping in org-mode. I tried org-brain for a bit (again) and it just didn’t click, and also broke my org-publish step. org-roam just works with straight up org file links, nothin’ fancy needed.
Hoping it’ll get me a bit closer to TiddlyWiki in Emacs kind of thing that I’m after.
I’m about two thirds of the way through Dune. Still well written but all this stuff about the machinations of Fremen culture and Paul going off his nut and having visions all the time, I’m finding a bit less compelling plot-wise. Also I don’t like things that are underground or in caves. Makes me feel claustrophobic.
Not that I’d recommend buying a new laptop (keeping an old one running is that way to go)… but for interests sake, according to iFixit HP EliteBooks are pretty repairable. So well done to HP on that.
A standard for measuring how easy it is to repair stuff. Accepted as a European standard.
If products were labelled with it, you could make an informed choice on buying a product that will be easy to repair when it breaks.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/35879/repairability-standard-en45554
Digging this article on the Garden vs the Stream on the web.
Think about that for a minute — how much time we’ve all spent arguing, promoting our ideas, and how little time we’ve spent contributing to the general pool of knowledge.
Why? Because we’re infatuated with the stream, infatuated with our own voice, with the argument we’re in, the point we’re trying to make, the people in our circle we’re talking to.
Oof. Yes.
I want a Memex.
https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/
Long live the machine – a great policy paper on things that the EU could do to force manufacturers to make laptops last longer.