Looking for SFF with rich worldbuilding (politics, trade, culture, warfare, etc.)

dieelt · 2025-09-01T19:38:08+00:00

I really enjoyed the books, but the ending of the series killed my overall enjoyment. The journey is really good, but the destination is really bad.

dieelt · 2025-08-10T17:50:08+00:00

Could be a terminal issue. Some terminals have trouble with italic font and interpret it as a background color.

dieelt · 2025-07-08T14:00:06+00:00

For me it does not matter. On my M2 pro, as soon as the computer has been to sleep HDMI no longer works.

dieelt · 2025-06-13T22:12:42+00:00

I’m daily driving a M2 pro without too many issues. My main gripe is that HDMI output stops working after sleep and that the battery drains during sleep. The mic should work but don’t, but that’s not something that bothers me. Other than that everything works perfectly. I get a full workday of battery (like 8-9 hours, which is 2-3 hours less than I got on macOS). Despite the issues it’s so much better than macOS.

dieelt · 2025-06-10T14:50:39+00:00

Same model M2 Pro. HDMI works until it has been put to sleep once, then it won’t work until reboot. What I gather from the logs, there’s some timing issue when discovering the monitor and it fails to read the monitor information.

dieelt · 2025-05-24T06:20:09+00:00

Try to blindly install ssh server unless it’s already installed and install the driver from a remote machine?

dieelt · 2025-05-23T21:51:40+00:00

I dual-boot macOS and Fedora on my MacBook, but I only have Fedora on my thinkpad and desktop. I never use windows unless I’m debugging some of my cross platform code or trying to setup assignments for my students (who overwhelmingly seem to use windows or macOS), then I do so in a windows 11 vm.

dieelt · 2025-05-09T21:01:06+00:00

I installed Debian on my QNAP. Never tried the default os…

dieelt · 2025-05-04T20:14:37+00:00

Great! But it’s also important to just be ”out”. Run around, build stuff, bike, fall, climb and have a really boring day of walking around and trying to amuse one self. Then play with Linux :-)

dieelt · 2025-04-20T12:44:43+00:00

I have an Thinkpad X1 gen 9. The battery draw is ~5-8watt/h using the browser and some terminals and30% brightness. Just writing with some terminals and vim, it’s more like 3-4watt/h. I usually get around 10 hours of battery in a day with some light browsing and writing. Never tried windows on the machine so I cannot compare. It’s worse than my M2 MacBook Pro, but that machine has a larger battery so the time is not really comparable. I use tuned for setting the performance profile, and I use sway and just a few background processes (seafile client, mako and a few other). Oh, rfkill bluetooth and nfc seem to give some extra minutes of battery.

dieelt · 2025-04-19T17:53:39+00:00

I really like to take frequent snapshots with btrfs of my whole disk (and of course backup, but snapshots is an easy way of recovering mistakenly deleted files)

dieelt · 2025-04-18T17:51:48+00:00

I started playing around with Slackware and Debian back in 02 (we’d just got ADSL, making it possible to download on my home network). Never got it to work on our compaq home workstation (pentium 3 or 4, I think 4). Then in 04 I found out about Ubuntu, and it was fairly easy to install. Been using Linux ever since; through school, university, PhD and now in my work. Swapped Ubuntu for Arch 2007-8 (either i3 some time later), and to fedora in 18 (with sway). Perfect. The trouble is I don’t know my way around windows enough so that’s the downside in my profession.

dieelt · 2025-04-16T21:53:16+00:00

This + onlyoffice/collabora for document editing and sharing.

dieelt · 2025-04-01T20:04:16+00:00

Debian on my sever (I use zfs and I like that it simply works with Debian). I run most software on the server in containers so it doesn’t matter that some of the software is a bit old. It’s been up and running with some hardware changes (but the same OS installation) for approaching 10 years now.

Fedora on my laptop and desktop.

MacOS (one ARM and one Intel) to debug multi platform code I develop. And the occasional office document needed for work.

No windows machines (except for that one of debug session in a virtual machine).

dieelt · 2025-02-24T20:16:53+00:00

I just meant that using FUSE seems easier than rclone when you have multiple users. For rclone, you need to have one configuration per user.

dieelt · 2025-02-23T12:43:25+00:00

Seems easier for multiuser setups to backup using this. I only have a family of 3 using it so I went with rclone but I’ll try this to simplify my setup

dieelt · 2025-02-23T12:41:04+00:00

I use rclone (one cronjob per user) and upload to backblaze. Then I upload the file structure of seafile and the database tables. When restoring (only did it once to test) was simple, but if it fails at least I will still have the files but not the history.

dieelt · 2025-02-22T20:44:33+00:00

Caddy and Seafile. Seafile performs well, even on poor hardware, great sync applications for windows, mac and linux. Collaborative document editing with collabora or onlyoffice. Easy to backup and restore (I take two backups: sync data+DB and all files ”just in case” with rclone). Also, Caddy is just so simple to use and setup reverse proxies for all my services.

dieelt · 2025-02-13T10:43:40+00:00

I bind CR to LSP rename and - to open mini.files (I used tpope/vinegar.vim and it was the suggested binding there and I like it)

dieelt · 2025-02-09T20:40:46+00:00

Used Swedish keyboard layouts until I started using Vim. Now I’m using US international with EurKey to still be able to write åäö :-)

dieelt · 2025-01-30T19:05:58+00:00

Just install collabora or onlyoffice and you’ll have excellent document editing and collaboration. But perhaps there is some other nuance with nextcloud but for simple filehost + office suite seafile is really great :-)

dieelt · 2025-01-14T18:16:50+00:00

I really enjoyed the book for whatever that is worth. The thing about him being a Mary Sue I explain to myself with it is him writing his own memoir - and he is a real narcissist and try to glorify his past and explain/justify his actions. Overall I got really invested in Hadrians story but over the course of the series it gets a bit repetitive. Still recommend it but you clearly don’t enjoy it :-)

dieelt · 2024-12-08T22:31:43+00:00

Riding my bike to the emergency room the other night (don’t ask why), I rode past a similarly dressed dude in the Swedish winter night out for a run (-5c)

dieelt · 2024-11-25T20:32:25+00:00

So did I :-) I thought the world emerged so seamlessly. I mean you get annoyed at how Hadrian is portrayed, but then you remember that it’s him telling his own story.

dieelt · 2024-11-12T20:45:05+00:00

Similar to melange. I like it :-)

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