2022-09-02 from the editor of ~insom
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Skipped all of August on here, somehow.
_Right_ now, I am sitting on my front porch watching a
totally over the top thunderstorm with heavy rain sweep in
out of nowhere. I recall thunderstorms being smaller and
rarer when I grew up (because I grew up in a different
country, not because of climate change, although that could
be playing a part, too).
Given that I'm on a hill and I have cover, this is just
exciting for me. It's raining so hard I only have like 20m
of visibility, and there's a halo all around the lone street
light that's visible on my street. Lightning is coming about
every minute or so.
I, once again, have been tempted to buy an amber screen
glass terminal. It's probably something that I will just
have to do some day, to get it out of my system, but for now
a dose of `apt install cool-retro-term` is treating the
symptoms.
For me, I don't want a comically over the top retro
experience, with bezel and noise etc. so I've basically got
an amber full-screen emulation with a pixel font and some
persistence of vision and a tiny amount of bloom. As with
most photography / Lightroom presets, the defaults go way
too hard.
It's just an extra-pleasant way to catch up on Gemini, too.
