I love the fact that the local malls in the area seem to think that EV owners are rich so to entice them into coming to the mall they scatter the chargers around near several doors and offer free charging. Nothing better than having lunch at a fave restaurant about 1/2 mile from the mall, coming back to a fully charged car and I've walked a full mile which at least partially makes up for the caloric intake. Take that, big oil, noting that Texas puts largest percent of green energy on the grid than all other states.

BTW the grilled alligator was excellent, in case you are wondering.

#ev #greenenergy #cajunfood #StickingItToTheMan

I had so much fun getting #funkwhale running that I decided to spin up an instance of #fireflyiii to try to get a handle on where the hell my money all goes.

I used to use Mint, but then Intuit shut it down and forced me onto CreditKarma. CreditKarma is absolute flaming garbage. So, I'm hoping this works out.

#selfhosted #selfhosting #stickingittotheman

Got bored of Google trying to rule the interwebz and take over how email operates with SPF <- DKIM <- DMARC and crap getting in the way.

Switched back to my own mail server, SA + bogofilter + procmail, my choice of IMAP and SMTP clients (currently primarily Apple Mail).

Feels seriously weird now that Cmd-1 / Ctrl-1 no longer take me to a pinned gmail tab in Chrome.

I just moved mastodon left to take its place instead ;)

#google #BigTech #geek #independence #email #stickingittotheman #win

What a week! Diffusing my anger in the best way I know how that doesn't involve a smash room.

The story behind the cat ears begins in a record shop. Said trip was inspired by a dear friend of mine who told me get something that I can wear as my own attitude adjustment when I was in my classic grumpy/grouchy moods. But instead of going for a WWJD bracelet (kind of ridiculous since I'm of a completely different faith tradition entirely) what's got me was finding a set of cat ears I found at the aforementioned shop. The thought of me wearing cat ears at the time -– this was about 13 years ago -- was ridiculous enough that I thought it would be effective. Sure enough, it was! I've kept the
#nekoMimi ever since.

Some years later, a colleague at a former place of employment begin a cat ears day. I decided to carry on the tradition myself.

It's ridiculous and fun in all the bright, positive, and uplifting ways.
And it pisses off the fa.

#CatEarsWednesday #StickingItToTheMan #CutePic #CatEars #TransJoy #BlackTransLivesMatter #PissingOffTheFascists #TransOver50

I also got a 10,000mAh power bank to recharge my #Pinephone since it's sure not to last a day on a full charge (not even 1/3 of a day!), not if I'm going to use it for maps/navigation.

Power bank and USB-C cables & adapters were not purchased from Amazon, but from a Canadian online store. I'm not financing Jeff Bezos' space trips if I can help it. 😜

#StickingItToTheMan #ExerciseInFutility?
#PleaseLetMeKeepMyIllusions