After quite a bit of agonizing, I eventually landed on openSUSE Tumbleweed. I chose a rolling release distro because on my desktop I want to be up-to-date. Having used Gentoo a long time ago, I didn’t want a distro that takes effort to install and set up. openSUSE is somewhat popular with an active community and decent documentation in case I run in to issues. I also considered the fact it’s based in Germany, because EU has at least some decent privacy laws. I was put off by the fact its backed by SUSE, but that’s a two-edged sword.

Right now I’m content with Tumbleweed, but I’m keeping an eye on OpenMandriva Lx if I feel like switching.

openSUSE Tumbleweed has served me well for some time now. Maybe give it a look-see?

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Someone mentioned the book on Lemmy and I guess I got curious. It’s been pretty good thus far, but it is on the long side.

I like Posteo. Affordable (1€/month) and with focus on privacy and FOSS.

They are the true blue bloods of the animal kingdom, they are already at the pinnacle.

Looks great! Where can I download this theme?

Just started reading I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. I never watched iCarly or anything else she’s been in, but I have heard of her story before. Seems like a good book if you are interested in abusive parents and unhealthy family dynamics.

The male lion then killed the cubs so the female lions would go in to heat. Nature is majestic.

Years ago I tried running Debian on my desktop computer and it became very quickly apparent it was not suited to my needs because of the out-of-date software. These days I only really consider rolling release distros for my desktop, or at least something with a fairly snappy release schedule. If I went for Debian, I’d probably run sid or testing.

Now, in situations where the bleeding edge is not necessary, Debian is fantastic. I’ve run it on my laptop, Raspberry Pi server and PinePhone. On the laptop, having a solid base that doesn’t break if I don’t use it for a while was great, since I didn’t use that laptop often. I did use flatpaks for some applications that I really wanted to be more recent and it worked nicely. So yes, you can use Debian as a solid base and use Flatpaks/Appimages/other to run apps you really need the newest version of, where available of course.

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Politicians hide themselves away/They only started the war/Why should they go out to fight?/They leave that all to the poor, yeah/Time will tell on their power minds/Making war just for fun/Treating people just like pawns in chess/Wait till their judgment day comes, yeah

Well this is nice. I’m glad there’s signs of life from them. Hopefully they can make updates a bit more frequent from now on.

Is there anything this wunderkind can’t invent‽

Dracula by Bram Stoker. Never read it before. I did see the 1992 movie adaptation, but that was a long time ago.

He didn’t leave, he just went on to invent metal.

Off the top of my head some shorter books:

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis, Post Office by Charles Bukowski, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke.

The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis. I’m liking it a lot so far. It’s undeniably Ellis, but he also feels more open and honest this time around. Maybe he’s getting old and more comfortable in his own skin.

People trying to have long-form discussions on Twitter/X has baffled me since the beginning. It is decidedly not the right platform for that and it was never designed to be. In fact, its design clearly discourages any meaningful discourse. I have never been able to wrap my head around that site and its users.

The interface is a bit bare bones and 90’s but I like it that way. It’s a good and reliable client.

I’m reading a book on grief. Grief has been an important part of my life for a good long time now, but last year has been difficult. And things will only get worse in the next few years. I suppose I’m bracing myself, even if I know it doesn’t help much.