Here's some things I'm looking to set up and try.
An image hosting replacement for google photos and apple photos (immich)
a web based note taking app (memos)
an RSS feed reader (freshness)
a notification system (ntfy)
an IT Swiss army knife (IT-Tools)
local dns ad blocking (adguard)
YT downloader (pinch flat or metube)
containerized browser (kasm)
Home automation (home assistant)
recipe hosting (mealie or tandor)
personal blog (grav)
media consumption (plex plus arrrr)
a way to share text or images quickly (pastebin)
privacy front end for reddit, YouTube, etc (redline, invidious, etc)
coding/scripting tools (vscode)
A front end for the entire system (cosmos cloud)
We stand on the shoulders of giants. Or at least, those who suffered that we might not, and so we should respect our elders. I do, and this is a list of places I'd prefer to lean on experience than relearn the hard way:
- Cunningham's Law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is to post the wrong answer and wait for people to correct you.
- LeBlanc's Law: Later == Never
- Brooke's Law: Adding developers to a late software project makes it later.
- Hyrum's Law: All observable behaviors of your system are depended on by someone.
- Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the time available for it's completion.
- Pareto Principle: For any phenomonon, 80% of the consequences stem from 20% of the causes.
- Hofstatter's Law: Everything takes longer than you think it will, even when accounting for Hofstatter's Law.
- Conway's Law: Any software reflects the organization that built it.
- Linus's Law: Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
- Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
- Zawinksi's Law: Every program expands until it can read email. Those which can't are replaced by those that can.
- Sturgeon's Revelation: 90% of everything is crud.
- Stein's Law: If it can't go on forever, it'll stop.
- Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
- Wiio's Law: Communication fails except by accident.
- Macnamara Fallacy: Making decisions based on both measurable data and ignoring unmeasurable data is suicidal.
- Trust but verify: (Russian: доверяй, но проверяй, tr. doveryay, no proveryay, IPA: dəvʲɪˈrʲæj no prəvʲɪˈrʲæj) is a Russian proverb, which is rhyming in Russian. The phrase became internationally known in English after Suzanne Massie, a scholar of Russian history, taught it to Ronald Reagan, then president of the United States, the latter of whom used it on several occasions in the context of nuclear disarmament discussions with the Soviet Union.
- Wright's Law: The more times a task has been performed, the less time is required on each subsequent iteration.
- Hyrum's Law: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.
- Layne’s Law – “A) Every debate is over the definition of a word, B) every debate eventually degenerates into debating the definition of a word, or C) once a debate degenerates into debating the definition of a word, the debate is debatably over.”
- Lamport's Law - If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.
- Mellon's Law - Everyone wants to make an API, but nobody wants to use one.
While it's not a law, it should be. Cunningham said: "If software is not periodically rewritten to communicate what we've learned, then the software will lack any sense at all eventually."
Modern Hollywood is completely incapable of writing anything even remotely compelling, and throwing money at the problem, as The Acolyte is teaching us, still doesn't work, and I've been thinking a lot about why that could be. I've been following the Disney versus Nerdrotic and Critical Drinker debates, and the idea that Disney can't shut two Youtubers up makes me incredibly happy. Still, how have writing standards have fallen so far?
It hit me that the core of the problem has to do with Hollywood's ultimate goal, and the human tools that they use to accomplish that goal. The object has always been, at least for as long as I've been around, to subvert the values of Christianity, not limited to the atomic family, sexual roles, faith, beauty, goodness, truth, and ultimately, Jesus Christ. However, in order to achieve that goal, one must first be able to understand the value of that which they wish to destroy. Modern writers, with their complete inability to even feign agreement with these values, cannot suspend disbelief among those with even an inkling of the beauty of those values.
I do not believe that writers with that upbringing do not exist, and I'm not suggesting we let our guards down. Clever subversion is in some mediums (looking at you, triple A gaming), is alive and well. However, Hollywood has slammed the doors shut on letting such people into the writer's room, and their absurd inability to understand that this has resulted in their output being so universally despised, and their childish name calling of anyone who disturbs their illusions that we want what they're peddling, has proven to me to be far more entertaining than anything they could have written. The wonderful part of that joy is that I don't pay them one thin dime while doing it.
I'm on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS in my Dell XPS (and curse the day I ever bought this box) running an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. I get sporadic freezing.
After a whole lot of --research-- panicked googles, it looks to be a problem with the PCI Power Management in the kernel, and shutting it off seems to fix. To do that, I edited /boot/efi/loader/entries/Pop_OS-current.conf and added to the options line : pie_aspm=off pci=nommconf and restarted.