Saturday, 3rd August, 2024

Now playing a horror escape from a North Sea oil rig game. Still Wakes the Deep. They certainly capture the language!

I feel better but still tired and can’t really do too much, even if I think I can. It’s a bit boring. Family is visiting as well. I don’t usually have much patience with everyone but as I can’t do anything, I just let it wash over me. Although my wife has to do everything, but they’re her family so she doesn’t mind…as much.

Having takeaway curry tonight. That’ll be nice.

After my mum had her stroke she can get very fatigued, but can do a lot before it happens. Feel like I have a slight insight into what that’s like now. Do a bunch of stuff and then suddenly feel very weak and need to lie down, but at the time everything seems fine. Even playing videos games has been tiring. It’s like when I’ve gone to bed too late and been up early, just have a mind fog.

It’s hard not to be critical of other’s kids. I wonder if ours are just as bad but we can’t see it.

A friend is trying to find a Google Photos alternative, self hosted style. Photoprism promised to be that in 2021 but hasn’t really improved since then. Seems like several start but then die off and stagnate. I’m fine with Apple Photos…in fact I want to put more into it.

The radio I got can be controlled by wifi, but the garage is strangely opaque to wifi, even with an AP on the other side of the wall. It’s annoying as I could play with it from the iPad on the sofa. Need to get a wifi AP in the garage, but being in Eero (thanks to our fiber ISP), there’s no cheap solution. Annoying as I have Ethernet in the garage. I sort of want to change to my own system but haven’t got round to it. Used to have unifi stuff but grew to dislike it as it pushed all the settings into mysterious “auto” and “cloud AI” magic. Also ended up being quite expensive.

A guy at the hackerspace has a thinkpad with i3 as his window manager. He also doesn’t own a smart phone. He helps charities with IT stuff and I think a bar that hosts music gigs. I think he does lots of other things too but not got into the details of those. Anyway, makes me want to run Linux and in fact i3, which I did a long time ago. I think i3 is a sensible tiling WM. Stuff is configured out the box so you can use it but also it’s completely customisable. Some of the other tiling WM need more work from the start to get them going.

Surely I have a spare laptop I can install Arch (OpenBSD? Nah) and i3 on…