mph [he/him]

Robert Plant can do whatever he wants.

I don’t currently use it as a daily driver, but I tried. The basic, core experience is fine. Depending on what you need, it could be great. In the end I went back to using macOS (though I did ask myself what was working so well for me with GNOME that I wanted to try the experiment to begin with, and that has resulted in a leaner, simpler macOS setup).

The stoppers for me were webcam support (it kind of worked, but with bad image quality issues), and a number of Flatpaks quietly failing at launch. Non-stoppers but papercuts included that you can find ARM packages for some things but they’re direct downloads instead of dnf sources you can set up (e.g. 1Password, Sublime Text), and there are a few weird glitches with some fonts that work fine on x86 setups.

It’s trivial to set up dual-boot, and pretty easy to back out if it doesn’t work for you, provided you read a few paragraphs of documentation. I’ve done it twice on two different machines.

Well then I’m sorry I muttered “fuck this guy.”

I live in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Portland. An intentional community provided designs and tools in exchange for materials. About 20 houses built these together, then the community helped install them.

We live across the street from a park. In the summer, especially, unhoused people - often with kids - stop by to take books back to their cars and trailers.

My wife is a social worker, and the library has been a great pretext for her to engage with folks, help them find services faster than if they started at the front door, and for us to give them food and water.

We’re not trying to reconcile jack shit. We’re trying to share and be helpful, and have succeeded a little.

My son used to put on rubber boots, grab a clipboard and make my wife and I stand at attention, quivering, while he inspected us, like the mean lady.

US: Nominated for multiple awards in the drama category.

Rome: Submitted as a documentary.

My son was hell-bent on seeing The Exorcist from an early age … begged and carried on and we were, like, “No … far too shocking and intense for a young mind!” I remembered writing the local ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh when I was a kid because the tv trailers for it scared the hell out of me (and they sent a note back on station letterhead apologizing).

We finally gave in when he was maybe ten and let him watch it. He was happy to see the actual upstream of decades of pop culture references, but when it was over he just sat there and said “that’s it?” Completely nonplussed. Just went upstairs to play Minecraft or whatever.

He’s home from college this month and it came up because of the new sequel coming out and he was very clear on why it hadn’t phased him years ago: “You and mom raised me atheist. Why would I be afraid of demonic possession?”

Maybe just lore, but I’ve heard sometimes the picture-takers will try to induce people to smile to sour how they’re handled by others in the system, since the smiling supposedly indicates a lack of remorse or concern for the gravity of the charge. I read one thing that suggested prosecutors will show a grinning mugshot to anger the jury. I also heard never eat PopRocks then drink a Coke because your stomach will tear open.