Listening to a familiar piano piece in the office, and I’m thinking “I hope this is not Mozart” because I’m trying to stay away from here and enjoy other composers too. It is Mozart. Concerto for Piano No. 20 KV 466. Man, I don’t want to be that guy who just likes Mozart, but dude has some skills.
Not sure I get the new quoting thing from Mastodon. I understand how it works more or less (I can’t use it, not on my insistence), but what’s the point? Is copy-pasting not good enough? I usually just “@” someone if I want to mention them.
A good article about BookFinder, a pirate torrent site on books that went down. I still need to finish reading it:
I Came, I Typed, I Downloaded - How a Pirate Librarian Became an FBI Target * TorrentFreak torrentfreak.com
I don’t know, with the state of how knowledge and books are treated today in the US, I think websites like these are actually leaning more toward the good guys than the FBI.
I actually don’t hate liquid glass. At least not yet. And the new colored icons look fine to me, in case I get tired of it. What tools and gizmos do you use to customize your iPhone better in the year of our lord iOS 26?
Take more photos. Make better memories.
My advice on taking more photos and making better memories. Oh, and living the moment.
Brandon is annoyed at commercials these days:
Commercials brandons-journal.com
when is it too much? When is the line crossed where the entertainment stops being worth the commercials?
Good question. As a person who never cared for Football, the NFL commercial craziness never bugged me. But I hate commercials in general. My threshold is always between low and very low. Whenever a commercial comes up, I usually just quit on the movie/show (or the streamer if I’m watching Twitch) as soon as they come on.
What I learned about KVMs and USB switches
I’ve learned a couple of things about KVM and USB switches in the last two weeks. My case includes gaming, so at the end I decided on a USB switch and an HDMI switch with it.
Hello guys, enjoying your quick breather? Me too…
Reddit is shit. It was said so many times, and it will be said many more times.
The problem is that many of the users there just sit and accept it, and you can’t find these communities in alternative places. Mastodon comes a little close, but not really.
Sal doesn’t think that justifying text on your blog is a good idea. I tend to agree, though it would be an interesting experiment.
Re: justify sals.place
My Anker USB and screen switches came today. So far so good. My gaming keyboard and mouse switch between the Mac and the PC with no problem; there’s just a second or so of delay. The HDMI switch also works, and it’s better than changing the input with the tiny screen-joystick.
The Blues Brothers, 1980 - ★★★½
Oh man, what a trip.
I watched it a long time ago, and I forgot all about it - today I had more appreciation for it. The plot and some of the comedy won't work today, but it was clear from the start that this movie is not about the movie - it's about the music.
Famous songs, famous musicians (there was a part where I was like "wait a minute, is that actually Ray Charles? Shiiiit, this is Ray Charles!"), and just a whole lot of fun. They don't make such crazy car chases anymore.
I'm glad I didn't do reading before the movie and went into it pretty much completely blank (as I said, I didn't remember anything), it simply showed on my Netflix queue, and I was thinking, sure, why not.
Good stuff, it definitely heightened my weekend by a notch.
It’s a nice Saturday morning here in NYC, with mostly clear skies. I’m sipping my morning coffee. In about half an hour I’ll head to the shower, put some clothes on (I need to get another pair of jeans, my single Levi is becoming my default out-and-about pants), and then take my 1.7 miles walk to the farmer’s market to get some fresh vegetables for my sandwiches and hopefully some hearty soup.
This morning, still in bed, I was reading through my RSS feeds and enjoying myself. I’ve picked up some new blogs which are currently “on trial” to see if I want to keep them. It’s nice to finally have some new voices among the old favorites. I took some time updating my recommendations (AKA my blogroll) section with a few of those.
Looking at this short list, I’m realizing I contacted almost all of them directly via email. I’m starting to understand why some veteran bloggers rave about receiving emails: there’s something very personal and honest about receiving an email from a person who usually writes for the whole world. At the same time, you get more insight into what made them write something you enjoy, and develop the conversation further. I highly recommend this. It would definitely make you feel better about emails, especially if emails are a big part of daily work and errands, which I suspect is true for all of us.
Alright, I’ll leave you to it. Hopefully you’ll find something you like. And good morning from NYC, or #tzag, as we see on the interbwebs these days.
I got the new KVM, set it up, and I’m not happy.
The new KVM switch doesn’t work with my gaming keyboard (a split keyboard I use for its ergonomics mostly) connected to the dedicated USB on the KVM switch. There are issues with the mouse where it starts freezing randomly, and I need to replug the dungle. The keyboard shortcut key to switch between inputs doesn’t work either.
I recall gaming keyboards work a bit differently than regular keyboards, and KVMs usually have issues with them, but my old one worked OK. So far, I’ve had a better experience with the Software-based KVM. The keyboard worked fine, and I just had to plug in the mouse dangle for some games. The addition of a common clipboard is nice, and it doesn’t cost me anything.
Now I’m looking at USB switches and asking around on Reddit. This seems to be a better solution. It won’t allow me to switch video input, but I can do that physically on the screen and switch from one input to the other while both computers are connected.
I guess we’ll see how it goes, but I think I’m returning it.
I ended up buying the same KVM switch I had before, a newer model (the one I had was discontinued). Better KVMs are $200 and up and meant for two screens, which I don’t have, so it’s a waste. Besides, the performance of the old one was OK. Meanwhile, I’m using Deskflow.
My KVM switch died -- recommendations?
Well, it looks like my KVM switch finally died. Before I rush-purchase a new one, I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation for one, or for a different solution altogether?
Do you like blogs? Have you checked Kagi Small Web?
Yes, I’m talking about Kagi again. But this one is a free service, and if you like individual blogs (or think the small web is dead) you should check it out.
On a trip to Connecticut last weekend, we saw plenty of mushrooms 🍄 and a few frogs 🐸. 📷
In Criticism of Kagi news
Yesterday, I posted about the new Kagi news and shared it with Nat. Nat is very skeptical about AI in general, and reminded me of the main problem he has with AI technologies like this one: the authors get no credit. In this case, the writers of the news articles who are used in the summaries have no idea, and probably get nothing in terms of profit, when I read these articles.
Even if I only read a small portion of the article (the summaries are small, only a paragraph or so) and each summary is made of a mix of many articles, the problem remains. Makes me wonder if there’s a better way to handle this…?