📝 Quick and cheap way to improve output audio quality on (some) Linux (distros)
This assumes you're using Pipewire for your audio demands. Also, YMMV, depending on your hardware and the codec and encoding parameters of your music files.
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📝 Just... Please, don't
I hadn't even read about the intentions to turn Firefox into an AI browser, and I just saw this post on the Fediverse.
Does this mean Firefox will become an agentic browser?
Actual question!
If so, just... Please, don't! Take a hint from this article.
📝 Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
In an interview with “The Verge”, the new Mozilla CEO, Enzor-DeMeo, IMHO hints that axing adblockers is something that, at the very least, was on the table in some form and at some point. From the article:
He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.
It may be just me, but I read this as “I don't want to 😜 😜 but I'll kill AdBlockers in Firefox for buckerinos 😂”. This disappoints and saddens me a lot, and I hope I'm wrong.
📝 My Ubuntu experience ended, welcome OpenSUSE
In the second half of October, I replaced Ubuntu 24.04 with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. This marked the end of my Ubuntu experience. Well, for the moment, at least, because you never know how tomorrow's going to be.
This decision was not made lightly. After several months using Ubuntu 24.04, I was happy with the system. I was even using GNOME after using KDE Plasma for most of the last few years, because I liked Ubuntu's default experience on that desktop environment and found it better than the default one.
📝 Five years later, we had proper vacations!
Five years later, we finally had proper vacations! 🎉 We chose the northern interior part of Alentejo because we had a voucher that covered most of the hotel cost, and we could use it to spend a few nights in the monastery of Crato, a breathtaking place that looks more like a castle.
📝 As gutwrenching as relatable
This blog post is one of the most gutwrenching and relatable things – IMHO, at least for me – I've read in the last half-decade. The “You'll be ok. We're here for you.” that soon changes to “You're not ok yet? Get over that, don't be a wuss. Bye!” is all too relatable for me.
Most of the people in my life just stopped reaching out, and I'm left to do it if I want to talk to them. And if they won't do it, I sure as hell won't because I have other stuff to worry about, like having the energy to cook. It may not even be a small task for you, but for someone with chronic pain, IT IS a big endeavour.
📝 Thunderbird made my father's day
On the 28th, somewhere after lunch, my father asked me to take a look at his computer because he couldn't find the bird program icon, as he calls Thunderbird. Keep in mind that he's over 60 years old, and he neither speaks English nor is computer-savvy.
I remembered the default installation profile for the Linux distro I set up on his desktop had it, so the program was there; he was just missing the shortcut on KDE's Plasma taskbar. I added the icon to the taskbar, then took the chance to explain to him how he can create and use email templates in Thunderbird for stuff he does regularly, like asking for prescriptions. To be honest, I think the only part he memorized was how to use the one I created for him. 😅
📝 Struggles of acceptance
I stumbled upon this post on r/fibromyalgia, titled “How long did it take you to accept it?”. As I'm writing this, I'm still processing both the post and the comments; at the same time, feeling relieved that it's a lot more common to struggle to accept this fucking syndrome.
Knowing I'm not one of the few who struggle with accepting this and all the limitations it imposes is like taking weight off my chest. And to be honest, I don't think I'll ever fully accept this. Why would I? To me, that's like giving up, conceding defeat.
📝 I may be a failed human torch
One of the symptoms I hate the most in fibromyalgia is how it messes with my internal temperature perception. Whatever the season we're in, if I'm in pain, I'm sweating. If I do something that my body interprets as physical effort, I transform into a human sweat waterfall. Sometimes, things get even worse, and I feel so hot that I have trouble breathing.
Let me use today as an example.
📝 My Ubuntu experience after a few months
I've been using Ubuntu daily for a few months. I was a bit afraid of having some major issue and having to try another distro before thinking about returning to Arch, but the balance is positive so far.
I admit there have been a few things that've annoyed me. Then again, I've had that on any OS I've used, so... yeah, computers... At least they're not printers, right?! 👀