Notices by sazius (sazius@soc.ialis.me), page 2

@clacke To be honest I had forgotten that too :-)

Apparently I will be using RHEL in my new job, so I thought I would try Fedora on my old laptop just to reacquaint myself with that ecosystem. Now I'm playing with the heretical thought of replacing Debian with Fedora on my main machine. I'm using Gnome anyway, and would get newer packages. So far I haven't seen any stability issues... hmm, I need to sleep on it.

@ghostdancer @Luke @manuel @tuturto Many thanks!

I finally decided to quit academia. I love research and teaching, but constantly having to apply for funding and doing a lot of extra work trying to improve your chances to maybe some day getting a permanent position was getting rather stressful.

I was offered a job as Machine Learning Specialist at CSC, starting January, and I feel pretty good about that 🙂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSC_%E2%80%93_IT_Center_for_Science

@theru Maybe after that coffee? ;-) *cheers*

@theru Here is #beer time :-)

@keverets Mostly with nothing :-) I use a paper calendar and I don't sync my address books. I wrote a blog post about it a few weeks ago: https://sjoberg.fi/blog/simplify.html

I just shut down the last thing I was self-hosting: "Gandalf" - my trusty home server running in our living room book shelf. Over the years it has hosted, among other things, my personal web page, my OwnCloud/nextCloud and last my pump.io server. It was a Mac mini (from my old freedom-hating days 😉) running Debian GNU/Linux.

Congratulations #debian on your 25th birthday: https://bits.debian.org/2018/08/debian-is-25.html - Debian has been my operating system of choice for quite some years now. Thanks for all the great work!

It's now two months since I deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts. I can't say that I've missed them so far. Mostly it's a sense of relief that I don't have to think about if I should check my feed or not. On one occasion a friend wanted to tag me on a photo in Facebook and complained that it wasn't possible. I was quite happy with not being tagged ☺

@rgggn Yes, that's what I've been running for some time now: Fairphone Open OS + F-droid, and I'm pretty happy with it. As for the modularity, I've already upgraded the camera and replaced the screen (because I broke the old by dropping it on the floor one time too many...). Replacing modules was really easy :-)

@bob @liw Yes, I have an ebook reader. And these days I try to get books as ebooks if possible (and DRM-free), especially if I think I will only read it once. I still somehow prefer real paper, though ... maybe I'm just old fashioned :-)

@liw I agree, and I've been getting rid of a lot of stuff lately. I still have a lot left, though. Some of it that I've collected over the years, and much of it inherited from my dad. It's just a long process for me, especially with books... also I somehow really prefer reading physical books over ebooks, I don't know why.

I just pruned our bookshelf and removed around 80 books. Duplicate books and books that I won't ever read. We're taking them to the local Reuse Centre. I estimate that we still have more than 900 books left, so I've still got stuff to read 🙂

@theru Nice, yes I guess you would need that for the static password anyway?

@atalsta Yes, it's like mutt for RSS feeds :-)

Speaking of that, a relevant blog post, "Reclaiming RSS": https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/ by @aral