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And now, from the local news file... I feel like a mouse caught in a trap of my own design. The renovation project consumes all of my time and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. However, I know that I will really enjoy the new bathroom and office when they are done. In fact, it's the last major renovation on the house, so I guess I'll be free afterward. To do what? Who knows? I was saddened to learn of the departure of kvothe from the phlogosphere[0]. I know that I should reconcile myself to the transiency of all things, but I like this community and find the departures disconcerting. Of course, new people arrive and make great contributions, redefining what we talk about here, so that's a good thing. In any case, if you're reading this kvothe, farewell to the dial tone and godspeed! Last week, I decided to join Mastodon, and began looking around at various instances. I knew where some of you resided, so I decided to check out those places, only to find that pkotrcka had departed 101010.pl (I thought that joining that community might be a quirky thing to do, if they'd have me, but then without a fellow phlogger there, I reconsidered). A day later, pkotrcka phlogged about his decision to shut down that account and open a new one over at tilde.zone[1]. In the end, I decided to set myself up at fosstodon, since the local feed has news from a number of projects that interest me. I'm not sure whether I'll maintain that presence or not. My track record with social media is not good. I usually end up shutting the accounts down, because the nature of the conversations does not interest me. But we'll see. Maybe Mastodon will be different. It's really cool to see that jirka's Blackbird finally arrived and that it's working after the initial RAM hiccups[2]. Lastly, a new (to me) laptop is on the way. My current laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad R500, with most of the possible upgrades (processor, RAM, SSD, etc.). It's still very capable, but the screen has always been it's weakness. I didn't do a screen upgrade because there are only TN panels available. Higher resolution doesn't really matter to me if the viewing angles are still terrible. So I ended up buying a ThinkPad L440. If you know ThinkPads, it's a less expensive (and thinner) equivalent of the T440p favoured by most modders, in that you can still upgrade the processor, which is impossible after that generation. I plan to throw my current SSD in it and upgrade the screen to an IPS version right away. The other upgrades can happen slowly, as I feel like spending money on it. I kind of enjoy doing that sort of thing during the Winter months when you're stuck indoors a lot. Well, that's it. Time for breakfast and another day of renovating. Take care, gopherites! [0] gopher://circumlunar.space/1/~kvothe/ [1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/pkotrcka/0025 [2] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2019_07_07.txt