Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • "I dreamt we were nomadic"

    I dreamt we were nomadic living in vans and cars discarded by our elders threading a life hidden through city streets and mall parking lots we'd bounce broadcast to each other off glass tower and neon sign hidden signals unencrypted because no one cared to look our life a faded Polaroid folded in the pages of the city's book

• Technology and Free Software

  • Now that's a keyboard

    Via Lobsters [1], I came across this incredibly insane Japanese keyboard:

    [A closeup of a gargantuan Japanese keyboard] Just this portion of the keyboard represents only 6% of all the keys [2] [3] The photo itself is from DeskThority [4], and it's described as an an Alps CP10SJ550A kanji keyboard from Japan. It has 542 keys and weights around 27 pounds (12kg (kilograms) for those with a sane measurement system). It's an insane keyboard, and … I kind of want one.

  • Installing Linux Mint on Surface Laptop Go 3

    Less than a year ago I decided to buy a Surface Laptop Go 3. The form factor is incredible and I needed something light and easy to carry around for writing and basic stuff.

    I went for the Surface Laptop Go 3 as it is the entry level model and does not have any integrated AI or Co-Pilot feature. All other higher end models are beautiful, but way too overpowered for what I need.

    I always had the intention to replace Windows with Linux, and as the OS was getting slower and slower with each update, I decided it was a good moment to do it.

    There is a really cool, really well documented github repo with all the instructions and information one needs, including a nice feature matrix showing what works and what doesn’t. Turns out that on this laptop I would pretty much only lose the fingerprint reader functionality, which I really do not care about, so I decided to go ahead.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • New Game: Eleven

      Introducing eleven, a variant of 2048. It is an amazing combination of a puzzle, luck, strategy, and has an almost arcade-like quality.

      I did not think it was possible to do something like that in Gemini, but now that I have a VPS and had written an incredibly fast Gemini server, it may actually work.

      With Lagrange I play with my left hand over 1,2,3, keys and right holding the Alt key, and I can achieve an almost terminal speed, several frames a second when I go fast.

      There is a help page, and you can compete with other for fewest moves at every level.

    • I wonder how long it will be until my new registrar is bought out

      Over a week ago, I saw the registrar that Dan Lyke uses was bought out [1] (at least he got the memo [2]) and it prompted me to look at alternative registrars. After some consideration, I signed up with Porkbun [3], a registrar out of the Pacific Northwest. They're about half the price of Network Solutions, and they don't upsell on every link, which is nice. And also unlike Web.com and Network Solutions, they make it easy to update credit card information so you can, you know, give them money!

      So on the 16^th, I logged into Network Solutions to start a domain transfer. I picked a domain that wasn't that important to me just to test the process out and get a feel for how it works.