Learn to cook (which saves you money) and do all the house chores (including ironing).

Although it did have an nVidia card, my PC was an otherwise ordinary machine running Ubuntu, not a gaming rig or something custom built.

I love Linux. But I got so exasperated with system updates breaking X-Windows and dropping me into the console with no clue what to do, for some time I intentionally deferred the updates.

I wanted a stable daily driver, so in 2015 I switched from Linux to ChromeOS. Now I’m back to Linux with the Crostini container of ChromeOS and Raspberry Pi OS on a Raspberry Pi 400.

While I don’t downvote posts with emojis I’m most interested in reading tech content, where emojis feel redundant and distracting.

Lisp, the language that has them all.

Text searches (e.g. page search in browsers) that do return results, but they don’t show up anywhere on the screen or aren’t highlighted.

Zutty, the Zero-cost Unicode Teletype which the developer describes as “A high-end terminal for low-end systems”.

I maintain a list of the tech and creator newsletters I subscribe to.

I use Google Play Books but I also like BookFusion.

I initially got a Z80-MBC2, a Z80-based SBC that runs CP/M and other operating systems, as I had developed an Intel 8080 cross assembler and wanted to run on actual hardware the code assembled with it. It was so fun I got a V20-MBC, an SBC by the same maker that features a Nec V20 (8088 + 8080) and can run CP/M-86.

Both SBCs led me down a fascinating retrocomputing rabbit hole.

Yes, I replaced Reddit with Lemmy.

Because they realize they can get away with pretty much anything.

I actually left Reddit in early 2022, I’m not from the latest migration wave. I left for a combination of these reasons, the first of which is the main one:

• algorithmic feed designed to arise strong emotions, often negative
• snark and noise in the comments
• ads
• impenetrable moderation rules that often make it difficult to figure why a post is rejected, even after carefully reading all the sub’s guidelines and FAQs cover to cover, as well as reviewing past threads

Yes, to put my money where my mouth is.

In early 2022, a few months prior to the first rumors Elon Musk might acquire Twitter, I left both Twitter and Reddit for the Fediverse, making it a point to contribute a tiny bit of the content and interaction that help platforms reach critical mass.

In case you’re wondering, I left Twitter because the algorithms had made me essentially invisible. There was no point posting or interacting there.

Posting to a Usenet newsgroup to inquire about a research paper I was interested in, and having the author snail mail me a printed copy of the paper. The power of community blew my mind.

I live in a major Italian city, I’m well over fifty, and I’ve always drunk unfiltered water straight from the tap without boiling. Some Italians apparently don’t like the taste of tap water but it’s still safe to drink it unfiltered and unboiled in nearly all the country.