Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding — AEIMNUQ Wordo: THIGH

  • tao te ching

    The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.

    (Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as) having a name, it is the Mother of all things.

    Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

    Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names. Together we call them the Mystery. Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful.

  • gossip

    last night i said to my roommate that I wanted to gossip less & she immediately started crying so I made her tea & then we gossiped.

  • The Quest Queue vindicated!

    In the past, I’ve been feeling kind of guilty for using “the quest queue” which is short is you prep a list of hooks and rumors and jobs and missions from various dungeons and if you’ve placed the dungeon already, that’s great, if you haven’t, there’s a procedural random way to place where it is: [...]

• Politics and World Events

  • Misiamisia

    Okay before we get into it let’s first acknowledge that 99% of the people using the -misia suffix are well-meaning and good and kind and are only doing it because someone they trust told them to. And the 1% who are the ones actively pushing for it are probably also well-meaning and good and kind and it’s not out of malice that they’re doing it.

    So if you see someone write -misia just let it slid and don’t correct them and don’t go after them. They’re good. Let them keep doing it. It’s okay. Do not be a jerk and go after the few people out there who are actively making a hard effort to help make the word better. Absolutely do not make this essay fuel that. Go after the homophobes, not the people who write “homomisia”. But if you see someone writing -phobia here’s why that’s okay and why you shouldn’t go after them, either.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Won the Power Outage Battle, Lost to a Ping

    They said running a homelab was a fun hobby. They didn’t tell me it would turn into a full-time job involving power engineering, DNS sorcery, and the occasional battle with an ancient USB cable. But here we are.

  • The biggest problem with mobile Linux

    Recently, I've been working on getting my Pinephone into a more usable state. In fact, I plan to do another weekly challenge of daily driving my Pinephone. In my mind, there is one glaring issue with Pinephone, and it's somewhat ironic: file transfer is downright painful. Why? MTP is disabled by default, and the previous MTP solution requires zero authentication to get root access to the device, or so they say.