I’ve recently got my hands on a humidifier which can be controlled via a
single knob in a range from OFF to MAX. This is a bit suboptimal from a
control perspective if you want to keep the relative humidity within a
certain band – for example, between 35% and 50% in your living room in
winter – without constant manual intervention.
I’ve participated in this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program and have been working on the small (90h) “autopkgtests for the rsync package” project at Debian.
In the beginning of July I have announced that I want to write reviews/summaries of books I read, movies I watch, and podcasts I listen to and publish them as blog posts. Judging by my posts since then, one could conclude that I managed to read a single (!) book in the mean time. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Going forward I will write review/summary posts about movies I’ve watched, podcast episodes I’ve listened to and books or articles I’ve read1. By formulating my thoughts in reviews, I hope to a) memorize more from the content and b) have a quick lookup option in case I forgot stuff after all. And if my reviews are helpful to others, I’ll be doubly happy.
I like reading. And ever since I bought myself an ereader1 after having to move with a lot of physical books one too many times, I have never regretted that purchase: It is light (and thus I can always have it with me), can hold thousands of books, allows me to read in the dark (as it has background light), has an integrated dictionary, and (given my reading habits) is also more environmentally friendly than buying paper books.
However, not all is well with the current ereading ecosystem.
I bought myself a Pinebook Pro in December1. The current Pinebook Pro batches come shipped with a default Manjaro ARM plus KDE as a desktop environment installed on the laptop’s eMMC. Apart from some weird sound issues (for which workarounds are discussed in the same thread), the software works fairly smoothly. However, Manjaro is a somewhat problematic distribution. Additionally, it also is not lightweight enough for me for a lightly powered device like the Pinebook Pro. Thus, I spent some time adapting my new laptop to my needs.
Over the Christmas break I have (yet again) overhauled this blog. I had reworked it earlier this year already, when I moved the blog from the www to the blog subdomain and changed from the hydeout to the minimal-mistakes Jekyll theme. However, I was not convinced of the result for various reasons.
Disclaimer: I do not hold any stake in any blockchain based crypto token.
This post is a translation of Rohan Kumar’s English post WhatsApp and the domestication of users from the beginning of 2021 into German.