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  In Newcastle and the weather is much better today than yesterday. I have, of course, played some skee ball.

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  I tried to work out what I want in a Linux distribution. I think the desire for stable releases with security support rules out a lot of the smaller options, but perhaps I'm missing something I should look at, if I do decide I'm moving away from Debian? https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2026/08/what-do-i-want-distro.html

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  I was reminded today that I have found very, very few conferences I am personally prepared to spend much on a ticket for. I tend to find I get more out of the grassroots community events that aren't high cost, but perhaps I'm missing out on something?

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  After over 7 years of living here, my bedroom ceiling light finally has a lampshade.

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  Anyone else see the latest XKCD and think "You're my wife now, Dave"?

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  All I want is a low resource usage Android app that let's me stream audio to it from a Linux server. Bonus points if it doesn't have to be raw PCM. (This in the context of a Home Assistant dashboard device that I'd like to be able to play music on too, but control completely remotely.)

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  Android's gesture based navigation is terrible and someone should be ashamed. It's all been downhill since they dropped the physical keyboard.

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  As a remote worker I got bored of seeing one sided discussions that don't understand any benefits of return-to-office, so I wrote a thing. https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2024/09/the-rto-conspiracy.html

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  Do modern UEFI firmwares end up shadowed in system RAM, like classic BIOS in the olden days? I've seen some suggestion they are, but nothing authoritative.