John

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It's a good book and Michael W Lucas has a sense of humour. I hope he gets interested in NixOS.

"Every so often, men contact the author complaining that his books use both male and female pronouns. This special edition, using only male third-person pronouns, is for those special people. As the market is so much smaller, it’s unfortunately priced higher.

For each copy of the Manly McManface edition sold, the author will donate one dollar to his local chapter of Soroptomists International."

The Imperial, London Road, Southborough UK.

[Darktable -> Andrea Volpato's agx-emulsion (Kodak Ektar/Ektar Paper) -> GIMP 3.2.2 -> AVIF] running in individual Distroboxes on a custom Fedora Atomic Linux.

Weeping willow beginning to blossom.
Tonight I fully intended to carry on with learning some NixOS/Flakes but I've been running on too little sleep for a week and got distracted by old 8-bit samples and my brain rebelled somewhat by putting them into an approximate order. I did discover a cool audio effect - if a person wears NR headphones that aren't paired and turns their laptop up loud. It's like a phase harmonic or something and could be recorded. I did some useful Nix stuff and learned a bit. It's good for creativity.
Catching up tonight on the BSD on a stick: an OpenBSD install to/from USB install worked fine and the blue Ethernet cable worked fine. The Achilles heel was the laptop's built-in wifi did not have native support so I used a spare USB WIFI adapter that also didn't work well/reliably. So I ended up sticking to using Ethernet. The basic moral of the story is to thoroughly check hardware support in advance. I'm used to being fairly lax recently because I buy devices with Linux. OpenBSD is superb.
I found at least three ethernet cables and one of them was about 2m or more long and highly tangled which can stay there. I'm going to have to use the least dodgy one I can find or just get another. Getting another seems like cheating and it will just end up in The Draw until next time. I think there's even a cheap ethernet switch in there somewhere. Hopefully not. I think I threw it out. There's probably a coaxial cable in there somewhere. That was a pain in the arse too. WiFi is a PITA.
St John's Road taken by the Refugease Vintage Emporium facing south east-ish.
Southborough Common, Kent.