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I’ve been looking into #obsidian and #epaper notebooks again. I feel like the hardware I want just doesn’t exist.
- Physical Buttons: Page turning buttons for ebooks
- Android/or native Libby/Overdrive Support
- Sufficently open sync so that my handwritten notes can be imported into Obsidian + browse my obsidian vault (might require Android/side loading)
Supernote’s ethos is nice but I haven’t seen hardware updates in years. Remarkable seems limited, Boox might be a contender.
Whatever the output gains promised by LLMs, their initial productivity surge is erased over time, and replaced by heavier workloads—and that leads to workers experiencing “cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making.”
All this from research out of the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s not quite so simple. These changes can be unsustainable, leading to workload creep, cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems. To correct for this, companies need to adopt an “AI practice,” or a set of norms and standards around AI use that can include intentional pauses, sequencing work, and adding more human grounding.
A bike lane on my morning commute to make Teams calls in a different building.
Where exactly are all these clear bike lanes that jackass Bradford was talking about? The storm was over Monday morning, it’s now Thursday.
#toronto #BikeTooter
Rode our bike share as I typically do and the quality has really gone downhill this winter. It took me 3 bikes to go 4km.
1. Gear slips
2. front tire was warped
3. More gear slipping
It’s dangerous to ride bikes in that state. Putting in effort into a pedal only to have zero resistance. The tire warp is also brutal, it’s easy to check for and kills any momentum.
My other issue is no ebikes in the winter and sucks for people who rely on them for longer treks.
#toronto #BikeTooter
I’m hoping that was some initial setup pain and nothing more. Fingers crossed for stability.
My main display is a Samsung S90C and I’m using an RX 6900 XT and an Ryzen 5 7600X
https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Segfault/builds/#view=YYJMnQ
So with that sorted, capping my Overwatch to 117fps for VRR I got it to run pretty smooth and with HDR.
Then I saw a software update. I install and played some more. All good. It wasn’t until this morning that VRR set to automatic would cause my display to blank out and HDR get messed up causing all th colours to desaturate and my calibration out the window. I rolled back my mesa package and I’m back again.
That’ll teach me to stay up to date.
I spent a lot of time getting Overwatch to run right with the correct startup flags. It ran okay out of the box but it felt choppy or would give me screen tearing.
I’ve since found out that the HDMI consortium is moronic and refuses to allow HDMI 2.1 in open source. This is also why the Steam Box doesn’t have HDMI 2.1. This is despite pressure from AMD. I can only hope that Valve puts extra pressure here.
I wanted HDR and VRR and Linux struggles with these.
I really just want my gaming PC to be an appliance. I see that’s where Valve is headed but I do have some requirements. Mostly around having a persistent user space because I like to computer on my computer from time to time. It’s nice to be able to ssh into and check my server from the couch if there’s a bug.
Cachy is mostly there, but I did run into some edges and extra config that I just don’t think a regular user can deal with.
#gaming #linuxgaming #windows11
What really drove me change was Windows’ nagging prompt after an upgrade. My options were go through it or remind me in 2 days.
I’ve done this before. I don’t want office, I don’t want cloud storage. I have no interests (for their ads), I don’t want to just try. I don’t want the free storage. It felt predatory and a trap where I felt it’s easy to accidentally get a try or buy something.
I was fine using W11, I had a real licence and my machine just worked.
#gaming #linuxgaming #windows11
I’ve been playing about with CachyOS (Linux) to replace windows 11 on my gaming computer.
Unfortunately I don’t think it’s really plug and play yet for the average user. That said I really commend Valve. I’ve been watching them for what feels like a decade slowly build up their emulation layer and it’s amazing. So many games run virtually the same.
If this came out of nowhere for their competition I would be shocked.
Ethan Marcotte