I've had a couple of banger predictions about the Linux ecosystem.

Here I am back in 2022 asking if we could do something like #wayback to get away from #x11 faster.

Others include "can we have a generic uring mechanism in the kernel for all I/O?" and "Vulkan will be the norm for pretty much everything once the toolkits are running on top of it."

BTW, I predict that at some point not too far in the future, the Linux kernel will have a 'default largepage' build that makes a lot of THP and Folios complexity go away and increases performance enough that it becomes the norm. It will be like the 32/64 bit thing, but with the 'small page' kernels ending up only for embedded or other low-memory use cases and CHUDs.

25 pounds in 25 weeks! Almost entirely from tracking and limiting daily calories to 1600.

Honestly, limiting calories is 'easy' since it only takes a few minutes a day and I can do it asynchronously. The real challenge is going to be adding exercise. My days and evenings are far too hectic and unpredictable to block out time for it, leaving mornings (ugh) and nights (too tired).

I might try setting a bedtime so I can do mornings. This will turn me into a superhuman, but at the cost of my only reliable 'alone time' to be a nerd.

#weightloss #exercise #introvert

The CDC: "Cats are unlikely to spread COVID to humans"

Every cat owner, every day:

#catsofmastodon

I just looked more closely and it turns out I was pursuing the wrong things all along.

Apparently it's not "Wealth and Hellness"

#NotGoth

#ICE has removed press releases before this week because they were showing plenty of deportations of violent criminals in sanctuary cities all along.

I had just posted a screenshot of a few, and now they're gone.

This administration is obsessed with controlling the narrative, and they're competent at it.