Kind: Notes

Started getting this error after an upgrade to Emacs 26.2 on Mint:

> org-capture-select-template: Symbol’s function definition is void: org-mks

Doing the same trick as for similar org errors, basically removing compiled org files and recompiling (see https://doubleloop.net/2019/04/21/5260/), then restarting Emacs, sorted it out.

Let’s hear it for the neutrophils.

Quick note, seems that in Linux Mint when you create a new admin user via the GUI interface, you can only use sudo once you’ve restarted the machine. (Just logging out and in again didn’t seem to do anything).

Well, today I learned more about the history of plain text vs HTML in emails than I had certainly expected to at the start of the day.

Really loving using mu4e so far. Actually finding it enjoyable to keep on top of my email.

Couple of tweaks needed – when I view my sent emails in the web or mobile clients, the line breaks seem like a bit of a mess, so I imagine others are receiving them like that too. I also need to keep an eye on syncing – to begin with things didn’t seem synced properly between various clients.

Peterloo Massacre in Manchester was 200 years ago. 16th August 1819.

It took place at a peaceful protest of tens of thousands of people who wanted parliamentary reform, at a time when only 2% of people had the vote. The protest was charged by the local cavalry and tens of people were killed and hundreds injured.

A reform act was passed in 1832, after more protests, riots and conflict. Campaigns for reform and representation carried on with the Chartists in the 19th century and women’s suffrage in the 20th.

Gotta fight for what you want.

Goldsmiths University in London are trying to get to net zero carbon by 2025. They’ve removed beef from menus at the university.

It’s good we’re starting to see some of these moves at the institutional level, not leaving it all down to the individual.

https://www.positive.news/environment/university-ditches-beef-to-beat-climate-change/

Occassionally some of the touchpad gestures stop working on my Thinkpad T450s, in Linux Mint. (I think it’s after closing the lid and reopening.)

The following gets it going again:

> sudo modprobe -r psmouse

> sudo modprobe psmouse

Basically turning the driver off and on again.

Picked up a 2nd hand copy of The People’s Platform by Astra Taylor in Atticus Books in Lancaster.  Nice little shop, nice to chat to the owner Tom.  It has a link to Probe Records in Liverpool which is cool, my uncle was a big fan of Probe.  The book is good so far, too.

Woo, busy days recently moving out of London, mostly involving getting rid of belongings via a combo of freegle, charity shops and Gumtree.  Felt pretty good to be honest, not a massive fan of individual possessions tbh.  I’ll miss London but excited to be back North.