I ordered a classic trackball and I am incredibly pleased. I got the kit and after some soldering and elbow grease I now have it up and running. I really like that it is so easy to print replacement parts and that I can conceivably keep this thing running for years and years Ship of Theseus style.
Monthly Archives: March 2021
Gun Violence Deaths: How The U.S. Compares With The Rest Of The World
Gun Violence Deaths: How The U.S. Compares With The Rest Of The World
— Read on text.npr.org/980838151
Thanks Ted
I think what frustrates me most about the whole “banning assault rifles makes it harder for law-abiding citizens to defend themselves” is that we live in a country – a pretty good one – not a post-apocalyptic hellscape. It should not be expected that in order to not die, I should have an assault rifle handy to defend myself while I pick up a bottle of ketchup. Stop blaming the victims for not being armed and consider how much harder it would be for mass-murderers to do this without assault weapons, or guns altogether. Maybe Ted Cruz can just permanently relocate to Mexico so we can stop having to listen to his ideas?
Making videos is hard I guess?
kevq.uk/my-thoughts-on-richard-stallmans-return-to-the-fsf-board/
That’s genuinely intriguing that making the video was a challenge.
The Nokia N900
www.osnews.com/story/133160/the-nokia-n900-the-future-that-wasnt/
I still have mine, although it needs a little TLC to get it back to totally working condition.
Speak screen
I feel like I must be the last person to hear about this, but Siri can read whatever is on the screen to you. In practice what I can do is swipe down from the top edge of the screen and have her read a web page or Instapaper article to me. Much more natural sounding than the reader in Instapaper. Unfortunately you can’t start and stop playback with a tap on your earbud though. But it’s a small price to pay when you have an infant that loves to be walked a lot or manual labor to do.
Why bad choices might be unavoidable
It’s begun
I’ve been using my Ergodox EZ at work this school year and slowly but surely improving my touch typing on it. Tonight I went to take a quick typing test on my laptop and realized that I’m starting to mentally default to the columnar layout and have to slow down on a traditional QWERTY.