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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Support your local independent bookstores (if you still have any)!

    I don’t know how common bookstores that are not part of large chains still are in other countries, here in Germany we have this thing called Buchpreisbindung (roughly translates to “fixed book prices”) which means bookstores actually have to compete only through presentation and their professional advice. Independent bookstores often have very knowledgeable personal that can give you great advice for free (in case of Germany) or with little extra cost compared to just ordering on Amazon/one of the corporate chains, e.g. at the bookstore around the corner the owner has been selling books for 50 years and has read basically everything ever published at this point.

    She has just recommended me Gentleman overboard which is a short, although nonetheless incredibly moving book about a gentleman… well, going over board.

    As for the titles/front page design/self-help books: I feel with OOP, but this seems to be what people care about/still feel they have the time to read. One actually very good (although slightly older) book from this rather modern category is The subtle art to not give a fuck.

    Tldr go out, search for and support independent bookstores!





  • Unfortunately a Lenovo Chromebook Duet 5 on ARM with PostmarketOS.

    Bought it for myself shortly before the first Linux-specific consumer tablets were released–which, as I said, is quite unfortunate, but I wanted to have a tablet for school/university.

    Camera and the USB-C port (apart from charging, obviously) do not work at all. I’m using Gnome and have problems with both random crashed and stutters/low framerate, general performance is okay though.

    Annoyingly, some apps were not available for ARM (Thunderbird as recent as last year and Signal Desktop is still not available).

    Tried Fedora Silver blue for ARM as well (which did not work at all), as Alpine based PostmarketOS is quite annoying for general desktop use (some apps just won’t work and it once broke completely after an update).

    In conclusion: won’t recommend until your heavy into fixing stuff yourself/going for quite the ride.