Breaking.Impossible

@BreakingImpossible
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Lifetime of living and working abroad, mostly in #VideoGames. Right now? Horsham, Total War. Previously? Hong Kong, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Seattle. Too many games to mention. ;-)

Also: #running, #KungFu, #HungKuen, #OptOutside, #History, #MartialArts, #travel, #China, #HongKong, #UK, #PNW, #photography

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Reminds me of the Jungle Book scenes, with trees rooted deep in ancient palace and forts. This is in Gdansk, Poland though!
(Check out the It's in the Signs walking tour!)

#BreakingImpossible #hiking #running #OptOutside #history #Gdansk

Besides, the Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge (#hk4tuc) is no mere marathon.

Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AfxVb

#BreakingImpossible #Running

Building on the edge of ancient, present & future.
Ancient warehouses being converted into...? Apartments? Hotels?
Yes, if the neighboring areas are any clue at all.

#BreakingImpossible #hiking #running #OptOutside #history #Gdansk

In 1673, the fort reached its largest size, with multi-ring defenses, moats, and bastions on both sides of the Martwa Wisła river.

Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AfxVa

#Gdansk #history #BreakingImpossible

DOOM scrolling? That's old news, we're Quake scrolling now.
"The Enshittification of American Power" https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/ "First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech."
The Enshittification of American Power

First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

WIRED
Just a reminder to the people who have been on Mastodon or the Fediverse awhile: remember to follow some new people every once in a while, especially someone with few followers who would just like to connect and be heard by someone. It’s easy to get caught in our routines, but there are new, kind, interesting people joining everyday.

#Schneealpe #Rax “Path of the Sun”: 45 km, 2,300 m up/down. Normally a classic hike over 3 days. A 10-hour running project for me. But this time only as a hike'n'run to test pacing and the supply of water and food. Extremely mentally demanding, the last third including a long via ferrata was only possible on autopilot. 1/2

#Austria #Trailrunning #Hiking #Wandern #Laufen #RunnersOfMastodon #Mountains

For Linux users who want to remove DRMs from ebooks they've legally purchased, so as to read them on the ebook reader they've also legally purchased for their intended purpose: I've updated my setup to replace using #AdobeDigitalEditions through wine with the simple and marvelous libgourou library.

Details here:

https://amrhaps.net/english/post/2025/07/13/Adobe-Digital-Editions%2C-Linux%2C-and-DRMs%3A-Updated-again

With thanks to @mart1oeil who told me years ago this should be possible 🙂

#epub #drm

Adobe Digital Editions, Linux, and DRMs: Updated again - American Rhapsody

The most popular posts on that blog are, by far, those in which I gave detailed instruction on how to remove DRMs from Adobe Digital Editions Books, the first one in 2011 and the

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Such an impressive #sundial! Indeed, it's almost...o-pressive.

#BreakingImpossible #hiking #running #OptOutside #Stockholm