Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Boredom and existentialism

    I heard fourth hand with citations long forgotten that too much boredom can be dangerous, cause depression etc (and some sprawlbrained people like me are extra sensitive to that) but too little boredom is also unhealthy and is much more common.

    So I’ve started practicing boredom a bit more. When I first started dumbphone I had a long-running, then–still-going meditation practice, and while at first I was listening to radio and music on the dumbphone, the headphone jack quickly broke leaving me bored when walking around which was horrible at first, then nice and I got used to walking without the headphone soma, then it led to me just walking less until I figured out how to hook up an old 2DS game console to play podcasts and gradually I got bored less often and when the contagion first hit my meditation practice also ended and then two years into that I got really sick.

  • Twenty Percent Cooler

    Have you ever felt half-full, half-hungry? Some folks for whom hunger is a more binary switch might not relate to that, but then perhaps they can think of something else, like how much you groan when you see that the elevator’s out or how different things can make you differently happy.

    From there, it’s not that far of a step to also want to talk of three-fourths hungry or to, over time and with some self-awareness and reflection (or I guess it could just as likely be just wrong-headed, hubristic misguessing) remember and rank all kinds of moods and experiences with some more granularity and express them on a scale of one to a hundred.

  • November 2025 Five Questions

    No. I don't think Britain should be importing American customs. The last quarter of every calendar year sprouts these ridiculous frenzies of Halloween with "trick or treating", Thanksgiving, "Black Friday", Christmas music in October, etc, etc. There are still skeletons hanging in my local cafe and it's mid November.

    We could also do with getting rid of Guy Fawkes night, now that Catholics are the largest Christian denomination.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: LNOYSUR Wordo: WEBBY

• Technology and Free Software

  • PMBOK 8: What changed since its draft?

    My opinion about the draft was that it was "neither too good nor too bad".

    So, what has changed since then?

    I had pointed out 12 bad things about the draft. I'm afraid to say only 2 of them are adjusted. (Yes, of course I submitted all the comments in PMI!)

    On the other hand, in that article, I had also mentioned 11 good things about the draft. I don't know why, but 2 of those good things don't exist anymore! So, we're even ;)

    I also noticed a few new good and bad things in the final version. In general, the adjustments were mainly focused on small changes, and the high-level aspects didn't change.

    Now I'm going to explain everything in detail!

    Although, before that, I should explain that it wasn't possible to save the draft, so I only have my own notes of the draft and can't double-check anything.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • 13 November 2025

      And again some time has passed since my last entry in this phlog. Well, i have an excuse: My time was mostly split between spending time at the job, moving my mother to various doctors (nothing too serious... just things that were pushed more and more into the future over the last couple of years until it had some consequences) and me being sick with the flu again.

      But here i am, back in full strength and now with somewhat more time to spend again... yay!

      I run Arch... ehm... Artix by the way!

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      The end of the support for Windows 10 has brought me the opportunity to snatch... eeehm... i mean "rescue" a nice semi rugged laptop with some quad core Intel processor, 8 GB of RAM and a 120 GB SSD. The battery is absolutely fine and the thing runs about 8 hours on one charge. The laptop was formerly used by a technician of a telecom-company and has also a touch screen and an integrated stylus.

    • Nina.chat ICQ Not Dead Yet

      Apparently, nina.chat, the old IM client service that allowed some of us to connect via ICQ during the OCC this year [0], is not dead after all [1], it's just gone underground, kind of. The current nina.chat web page has this text: [...]