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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
Una de las promesas de la IA es que puede reducir la carga de trabajo para que los empleados puedan centrarse más en tareas de mayor valor y más interesantes. Pero segĂşn una nueva investigaciĂłn, las herramientas de IA no reducen el trabajo, sino que lo intensifican constantemente: en el estudio, los empleados trabajaban a un ritmo más rápido, asumĂan un mayor nĂşmero de tareas y ampliaban su jornada laboral, a menudo sin que se les pidiera. Puede parecer una ventaja, pero no es tan sencillo. Estos cambios pueden ser insostenibles y provocar un aumento de la carga de trabajo, fatiga cognitiva, agotamiento y un debilitamiento de la capacidad de toma de decisiones. El aumento de la productividad que se disfruta al principio puede dar paso a un trabajo de menor calidad, a la rotaciĂłn de personal y a otros problemas. Para corregir esto, las empresas deben adoptar una «práctica de IA», es decir, un conjunto de normas y estándares en torno al uso de la IA que pueden incluir pausas intencionadas, secuenciar el trabajo y añadir más base humana.
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