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Research scientist by day, curmudgeonly skunkworks engineer by night. Probably mostly posting here about #NixOS, #diy / #cloudfree #homeautomation, #HomeAssistant, #Neovim, #retrogaming, etc.

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pronounshe/him

Try not to get this. It is still well worth protecting yourself from infection. Believe me.

What I wrote last year, when I had recovered enough to actually write something like this, still applies:

https://www.johannesjaeger.eu/blog/living-with-fatigue-and-a-society-that-does-not-care

#LongCovidAwarenessDay

Living with Fatigue and a Society That Does Not Care

Today is my birthday. Obviously, it marks a date that is easy to remember for me. And I remember exactly how I felt on this day last year, on Mar 17, 2024.

Untethered in the Platonic Realm

@alice I feel you. I’m in this comic and I don’t like it.

Artist: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/113901066167320224

posting “I’m taking a break from social media” on social media and then checking how many likes it gets is a very specific kind of modern illness
The most unhinged thing about modern life is that we've normalised paying $200 a month for the gym and $300 a month for wellness "supplements" but if someone charges $5 for a newsletter they wrote with their actual brain people act like they've been mugged at knifepoint
I genuinely think the worst thing the internet did to reading was convince people that finishing books is a competitive sport. You don't need to read 52 books a year. You just need to read. Books you like. At your own pace. And think about them for longer than a TikTok video.

capitalists: "without a profit motive, nobody would do anything. society would collapse."

my friends & acquaintances: "I implemented a SPARC emulator in pure CSS"

the most mysterious people are people who mask indoors but with a surgical mask and not an N95. Best case, they aren't comfortable in an N95 or they can't afford them. Worst case, they are wildly misinformed.
"The free market will sort it out" the free market sorted out child labour by saying yes please and we had to pass a law. That's how the free market sorts things out.