Sloths Need Coffee! ☕️

The world scares me. My only negative though about having donated a kidney is that I fear I'll now be seen as a "burden" on the healthcare system. Like if I am ever able to overcome the many other obstacles to immigrate elsewhere, that it won't matter because I'm too old and have one kidney so I might cost more to keep alive than I'm worth.

I am really happy with my decision to donate a kidney. I saved lives. And selfishly it gave me a sense of worth and purpose that no job could. They can't take that away from me. But I worry about the consequences in a world where every person is assigned a dollar amount.

Interviewer: What's this gap in your resume.

Me: Oh, that's when I mistakenly thought I could spend one fucking second not selling my life to some soul-less corporate overlord to try to find self-worth outside of monetary contribution to other soul-less overlords who get to determine whether my family and I live without overwhelming hardship by refusing us basic human needs. And then the time I fought to prove my existence holds enough monetary value to said corporate overlords to pay me just enough to "earn" those basic human needs, while wading through oceans of AI generated slop job posting applied to with mountains of AI generated slop resumes, all to prove my work can be more profitable for the overlords than AI generated slop…

Almost forgot to do the mushy social media post.
It's wild to me that it's now been 11 years since I married my best friend @kilbery. Happy anniversary! I love you more and more every day ♥️

Finally home! Hello my own bed, I've missed you.

RDU 🛫🛬 DEN

It took so long to find the energy to figure it all out, but I finally got the iPod Classic running RockBox reliably with my flac music library. And it's using the adwaita theme to match my laptop lol. I am so happy to be able to use it for listening to my music especially since I kinda broke my HiFiWalker H2 a few months ago.
#RockBox #GNOME #Adwaita #iPodClassic #iPod #LocalMusicLibrary #LocalMusic #Music #FLAC

I've been in a hotel room most of the last two weeks and stuck with broadcast television. It's absolutely wild, shocking, and disturbing how much airtime is pharmaceutical advertising. This shouldn't be legal. Why is everything about our healthcare so fucked up?

I want a "Github Desktop" app but just for like all got stuff. I suck at got and remembering all the little weird commands any time I need to do something outside fetch, push, pull. I know there are a few different git GUIs out there but none of them have the simplicity of Github Desktop. I don't plan on doing anymore personal projects on github and moving to codeberg and a self-hosted Forgejo for private repos. but it stinks to lose my personal favorite workflow.
#Github #Codeberg #Git #Forgejo

Worked on my site most of today. I had been writing code on hopes and dreams with no way to even test if it would work until I had gotten to a certain point. I finally reached that point and when I went to build aaaand no dice. I spent a few minutes tracking down all the build blockers aaannd huzah! It builds successfully now I can track down the things that still don't look quite right. Then I can flesh this thing out.

I'm gonna have to do the extremely difficult and time consuming thing of migrating and backing up my data. I'm lucky enough to have an identically sized set of drives, but it will still be a pain. My server has been extremely flaky this week, because of course it has. After all, I'm not home to troubleshoot or fix it. I think it's about time to redo it all from scratch with the knowledge I have now. I've been running on the same data structures and setups from when I started self-hosting. I know how to do it better now but it always required too much work and potential data loss.
#SelfHosting