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It doesn’t say “hide dollar store boxers”, though.

Back in May 2022 I left my old Intel 335 180Gb SSD which I was using daily since 2013 in the drawer and forgot about it. It stayed there, unpowered, for almost four years. Today I finally put it into a external enclosure and was surprised to see all the data perfectly readable.

My first PC with Pentium 100MHz was 1800 € in today’s money. My first laptop with single core Pentium M was 2140 € in today’s money. My very mid gaming PC with storage expanded to 4Tb market value is 2500 € right now. Thanks to AI, computers are expensive again.

A crow just left half of a walnut on the external part of the AC unit right outside my window. It is not much, but in this economy everything counts, I guess.

A desktop PC connected to a monitor displaying Steam’s Big Picture interface.

Installed Fedora 43, Steam, and a dozen of games on my new all-AMD gaming rig, and everything, absolutely everything worked perfectly right out of the box and didn’t require any extra settings besides personal preferences.

A snapshot of two Euro banknotes (20 and 10 euro) and a few freshly minted euro coins from Bulgaria.

I love how all cash looks crisp and shiny now. It’s been two weeks already, but I still haven’t seen a banknote that doesn’t look straight out of the press, nor a coin that doesn’t look freshly minted. The coins are all local, with Madara Rider, too.

Thanks to how well Linux handles sleep I just used `acpi -V` on the freshly woken laptop to check the room temperature.

This work year started with Windows 11 rebooting my corporate laptop for updates right in the middle of my first work day disrupting my workflow. I don’t know why this is normalized.

Wait, if it grows on trees it means wood elves can’t have it.

BSD not Linux. And they dropped the ball massively with macOS 26, unfortunately.

Cinnamon is the closest DE to Win 7. So Linux Mint is a great choice. Runs like a charm on old ThinkPads.

For Christmas and Birthday I bought myself MSI Claw 8 AI+, a Lunar Lake handheld PC. It runs Skyrim and ESO in battery saver mode at 55+ fps and Starfield and Avowed on full power at 40+ fps. It seems my new year resolution is 1920*1200.

It’s called Starfield.

I would highly recommend at least using OpenMW or just DIY remaster it with Total Overhaul modlist from modding-openmw.com

This Christmas I learned in the not so hard but rather time-consuming way that OpenMW doesn’t play well with Intel drivers, at least on Lunar Lake, even on Windows. Total Overhaul modlist runs literally order of magnitude faster on Linux with comparable AMD chip.

It is the other way around: only sociopaths can make a billion dollars. No person on earth is so productive to produce such value with a honest labor.

Mosses are not fungi, nor bovines. All they can do is to lead you out of Egypt.

More like the opposite. The protest was largely anti corruption and pro-EU (“The West” is unfortunately a less monolithic thing this days than just a year ago). It also succeeded to some extent to lessen the grip on power of the pro-Russian oligarch Delyan Peevski.

If you want to do personal computing like it is XXI century, get a PC that can be powered by USB-C and a monitor that provides sufficient power over USB-PD. This is the 4th most impactful computer technology of this century after multi-core CPUs, SSDs, and 5G.

A rather silly CSS code that mimics ordered list numbering for multiple definitions for one definition term.

Counting definitions.

While OLED is great for content consumption good IPS is great for productivity. I have a pro-level IPS and good OLED and both are equally great.

I spent 14 euros this Black Friday and got the first three games from the Dragon Age series and the first three Mass Effect games. Haven’t played them yet. Ain’t gonna run out of quality entertainment this winter, it seems.

A photo of an alleyway lit by the rising sun.

On a morning walk.

Tiamat performance in Joy Station club in Sofia

Tiamat in Sofia’s Joy Station.

I wonder if anyone used “You’re gonna need a bigger cat 🦁” to advertise industrial robot vacuums?

This decade has definitely started with the pandemic. And then everything quickly went downhill. Wheeee!

A screenshot of the video game The Lonesome Guild depicting the first three playable characters in one of the first locations of the game.

The Lonesome Guild seems like a fun game so far. Similar in art style and mechanics to Tunic, plus the extra complexity of managing a group of characters. And the soundtrack is amazing.

In this universe UK ate Benelux and Scandinavia.

Sometimes it feels like our society has unhealthy obsession with gender. There’s no valid reason for it to be THIS important.

A photo of an alleyway in the park lit by the morning light.