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A Welcome Surprise

These days, I usually enjoy single-player video games far more than massively multiplayer games or competitive shooters. Occasionally, though, a shooter game may strike my fancy, and Tyr is that game.

It is a hero-shooter, except all of the heroes are tanks. Tank shooters inevitably demand a slower pace of play and a greater emphasis on strategic thinking, which is what is advertised in the promotional...

I have begun the long process of burning my digital music collection to CD's.

The 100 pack of Verbatim CD's and the Amazon Basics binder I ordered arrived today, so I have a place to store all of them. I'm going through my dad's old blank CD's first before I break into the new ones.

I'm going by artist in alphabetical order, with no purposeful organization for each album. Just whatever order the albums are in on my PC.

Music from the aliens

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Preface

Recently, I have been burning some of the media that I get off of the Internet to physical discs (is it disc or disk? I'm going to use disc when referring to CD's or DVD's). I started a few months ago after I was curious how it would work, and now I have a small binder completely filled with DVD's and CD's holding my favorite movies, TV shows and music. I need more space already.

The process is ever so...

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My favorite text editor has become the Linux terminal. NeoVim is now my home. After I installed LazyVim it became the best code editor I have ever used. There is a possible next step, EMACS, but I haven't gotten there yet. On top of that, my preferred shell is now Ghostty. I was using Konsole, but splitting the terminal into multiple windows is GUI-driven in that program. With Ghostty,...

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Yesterday, I read Matthew Butternick's article titled Extinction-Level Capitalism, and it has fully radicalized me. I highly recommend that you read the whole thing to have context for what I talk about in this post. In truth, I think this article forced me to look inwards and see my true beliefs. For a while now, every time I've used an LLM, I've felt a deep-seated sense of hypocrisy. I do...

i swear if i hear the word "align", "aligned" or "alignment" in work meetings one more time i am going to explode

example usage:

"we need to align on this topic"

drives me crazy

the worst part is when i say it; it's like a brain worm

The steam frame is so close i can taste it...

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-hardware/the-steam-frame-is-arriving-in-the-us-suggesting-the-vr-headsets-launch-isnt-far-off/

A new friend :)))

Of course after I finish rebuilding my website in Nuxt, I discover htmlx. It seems like a cool way to write lightweight websites that can still utilize javascript.

Has anyone here ever played BLKOUT? I recently learned about it and I might be trying it out tomorrow with a friend on tabletop simulator.

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Programming, or writing code, is inherently a problem-solving task. That's why a career in programming is called software engineering, because engineers solve problems with technical implementations. I have been reading a lot of posts appearing on Lobsters lately, and most of the discourse happening on there is about how LLM's are affecting the practice of programming as well as people's problem solving capabilities.

This has...

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Music II

Here's a collection of some of the music I've been listening to recently. All of these artists can be found on Bandcamp, and if you enjoy their music, too, I encourage you to purchase their albums. Supporting real artists is crucial in this time where AI generated music seems to be proliferating across platforms like Spotify YouTube.

URGH by Mandy, Indiana

This album is fucking awesome....

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Sidephone

I recently purchased an MP3 player. It's an utterly obsolete device nowadays since smartphones can do basically anything, but ever since I heard about Sidephone I have become more interested in finding ways to start relying less on my phone. What fascinates me the most about my MP3 player is how small it is. It feels much more convenient to carry around, at the cost of usability....