A few days before time change (DST) windows would put a little reminder in the calendar widget on the task bar. I always thought that was a really nice feature. Unfortunately, no other operating system does that (as far as I know).

Currently learning french, but it‘s only good enough for very casual smalltalk at the moment. I don‘t find it as difficult to learn as some people said.

My text editor of choice for many years was gedit. Nowadays, I use emacs

I don’t know what it’s like in Paris, but here in my area (germany) they had to discontinue the Chinese course, because not enough people signed up for it. So for what it’s worth, I don’t think you need to worry about taking someones seat. The language course I’m visiting at the moment (currently learning french) is really nice and welcoming, so no need to be shy :-)

I’m writing a script that finds filenames in a directory that only differ in case. Since I’m working with filesystems that are case insensitive sometimes, this is a pain to deal with and I’d rather rename the few files. But first I’ll have to find them 😉. Now, there might be some tool already that does this, but I enjoy the challenge.

Hey, nice to hear from you again. I haven’t written a lot of journal entries in the last couple months, but I’m very into reading at the moment.

Personally, I think the logo is fine. If I proposed to change it, I’d better come up with something on my own and I’m not very handy with vector graphics software :-D

Ah good to know. I only got my Steam Deck recently and haven’t figured everything out. I was too busy playing games 😀

Do you use the Steam Deck to listen to your podcasts? What’s your setup?

From my research noise cancelling isn’t harmful to your ears, since it doesn’t introduce any additional noise. However, if you blast your music on top of it, that will most definitely damage your hearing 🙃

I listened to “Crisis? What crisis?” from Supertramp for the first time today. Amazing album. My favorite track is “A soapbox opera”

So, did you quit your job as a developer and delivered pizzas for a while?

Being able to stop everywhere, without worrying about parking is the biggest perk of riding a bike

but seldom find any I feel like reading

Yeah, me too :-/

Library? We do (multiple ones), but I do live in a rather large city.

No, a public bookshelf is literally a book shelf (usually inside an old telephone booth) where you can bring old books. You can also take books for free.

Fully agree, I really miss the mini smartphones.

I recently started reading more books and really enjoy it. My only problem is, there is so much choice, I feel overwhelmed. At the moment I just read some random books that I got for free from someone. In the city there is also a public bookshelf. Does your city have this as well?

I also tried chess, but could never really get into it. I can never remember which moves I’m allowed to make with the pieces.

Any Friday/weekend plans?

Haha, people always ask me that, and then I feel bad, because I don’t have a real answer. I’ve got no plans either most of the time.

Does the keyboard flex when pressing on it or typing? I’ve watched assembley videos and the keyboard doesn’t seem well supported by the frame.

Damn, now I have to find an empty box somewhere else.

When I first heard of the Nothing phone I thought it was some practical joke where you just get an empty box. I didn’t realize it was a thing until I actually saw the phone