December (with no) computing
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December at work was a bit busy. A much more travelling than I have
been used to and also other things. So I had little time for anything
else. Even my cycling (I normally commute daily on a bicycle) was
somewhat limited. Also I had some flu in November and as a result I was
cautious when it came to outdoor and social activities.
So, the MNT Pocket Reform have worked rather wall during train trips.
The WiFi performance greatly improved with the new card (an AsiaRF
something). The only remaining issue is the non-existing suspend mode
(so far) and relatively short battery life (~4 hours). The suspend
issue might be resolved in the future which will also help with battery
life (I hope...).
I have been using my home desktop (the Raptor Engineering Blackbird
with the POWER9 CPU) mostly as an "ordinary PC": the Firefox (Japanese
video courses, general WWW browsing, e-mail, social networks and so
on), the DeadBeef (music), soem Kana and Kanji learning applications,
the Geeqie for sorting of photographs but there was almost no
programming at all. I did wrote a few lines of C code this year but it
seems the my main "programming activity" was when I made (very simple)
models for 3D printing in the OpenSCAD. But I have written no single
line of code (of any kind) during the December.
I haven't used my older machines at all during the December. The only
exception is today when I'm trying to make a season greetings picture
(The Gimp 1.2.x) and writing this post in the Vim. In last ~20 years I
have been making such image in the Gimp on the SGI (initially in the
Gimp 1.x on the SGI Indy, I think) so I even didn't thought about doing
it in other way. Well, this wotk is just the decision what picture I
should use (GQView) and adding a text like "PF2025" to the picture...
I also have had too little to browse the Gopherverse so I'm trying now
to look what is new.
