I mostly just have it handling file,

I needed something for storing important documents and installed nextcloud. After adding a single file I was reminded of just how much I hate SharePoint and removed it again.

What benefit do you get from storing files in nextcloud over just using a file system directly?

True. But there are still degrees of privacy you can achieve without going to extremes.

I kinda do this, except I don’t pick it up. I’m just sick and tired of having useless junk lying around, so when I see something I want I consider if I’m actually going to use it or if it will just be relegated to a drawer somewhere. If I haven’t been missing it (ie. it’s an impulse purchase) I will almost always just leave it be and move on. I don’t need all this junk.

If it is something I decide I need, then I consider if it should be this thing, or if I should try to find a good quality version instead, since what I usually find is in the supermarket where it’s almost universally cheap junk. That also grants me more time to decide that no, I don’t need this thing after all.

What does the potato look like to you?

This sounds slightly like the premise of the movie Paycheck. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0338337/

Personally I mostly prefer the experience of doing things. Writing books, coding software, building things… They are what brings value to me on a personal level. Looking at the kids’ playhouse in the garden brings value because I built it. Writing a book would mean something because I wrote it. If I just magically had it, it would be meaningless, even if it happened to be what I would have written, had I been arsed to do it myself.

I would love to move away from Google. However, Danish security apps require Google Play for security verification so it isn’t viable to move away from mainstream Android and Google Play - unless it’s to Apple, which is hardly better.

Muffin
Bluey
Bingo <- you are here
Lucky
Bandit
Chili
Stripe
Trixie

I know earth might be more bluey than Venus, but I would love to live on Bingo. And we’re kinda like fleas anyway so I think the theme is a good one.

Not sure Alita can be seen as a standalone movie, but oh my dog I need the sequel already!

Adding to this, I really thought Bad Science was a great book that more people should read. It explores alternative medicine, where it comes from and its efficacy (or lack thereof). It helps that Ben Goldacre is equally critical of the medical industry and their practices.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3272165-bad-science

Well, no, I’m on paternity leave. But also no, my workplace has a paid day off on the 31st of December.

I created an open source image gallery (floating image) in my spare time. Some company (Archos) wanted to embed it into their products, but wanted me to add support for 3rd party hosts (I had Flickr, they wanted Google, photo bucket and others). I earned about €3000 on the work and my project got better for it. Not completely unheard of, but probably the most unusual way I have made extra money.

Used to be Spotify, now Tidal. Would prefer Qobuz, but it’s significantly more expensive on the family tier.

Usually on headphones, og on HEOS via tidal connect - or, I would have preferred that, but it’s super broken, so now from the tidal integration (not connect) on a wiiim…

A few things.

If we look beyond my family, reading is a big passion of mine. This is more audiobooks lately due to the aforementioned family, but whatever keeps the hobby going.

I enjoy movies and have a nice surround sound setup at home. That can eat up a lot of time, just reading about how to improve, not to mention actually using it for both movies and music (again the family can make this difficult to achieve).

I really like photography and have a few of my own pictures hanging on the walls. I have spent hours at a time hunting for great photos, not to mention photo marathons where you take a walk for 12 or 24 hours with your camera.

I enjoy biking. I bike to work every day. When we had the time my wife and I went on longer rides up towards 100km. Small kids have killed the longer trips, but the daily commute lives on!

I recently got into home assistant, automating many a thing, preferably without pissing off the wife too much. That’s a precarious balance act, but for now we’re still together, so I haven’t messed up too badly - yet.

I might have left something out, and I know I had other passions that were left behind as my attention shifted that I haven’t mentioned. Lots going on always!

a fascist dictator leading the country; the complete and entire erosion of the rule of law

It’s more relevant in the states right now, but this is something we should all worry about all the time.

I suspect my first Linux ran on an 80mhz AMD K6. I did however also run it on a retired dual core UltraSPARC some years later I had somehow gotten my hands on. It might have been faster, but at that time it sure felt slow. And it sounded like a train passing through when it was on. In retrospect installing Gentoo on it was an optimistic endeavour.

It is to colorblind people. You could use something else of course, just saying…

I like dark mode and tabs. Now I actually use it a lot more. I don’t like adding a gibberish generator…

And discovery.

So many things. Sometimes I feel like going into politics, because everything there is so crazy. I take this as a sign that my brain is fried from too many meetings.

It would be cool to do a startup making something cool, but honestly I don’t want to put in the extra hours and I don’t want to risk the comfortable lifestyle my current job provides.

That sounds cool. Have new people entering taste 3-5 wines and score them. Based on that they get a recommendation. Score that to further refine the tasting profile. When they return they can just enter a code or scan a card from last time to pick up their profile to keep evolving it.