I can play more within Windows and Linux than I can with Apple hardware. The white box I’m using to build a parallel system is cast-off enterprise class hardware, albeit 7 or more years old. I can maintain and upgrade it for a fraction of the cost of a Mac Pro of similar vintage.

I’m partial to Home Sharing in the Apple ecosystem. I had a first gen AppleTV and I have been sharing my TV and Music libraries since I first could. But managing a sizable collection of media is getting slower and slower. I fear Apple abandoning this in favor of streaming from their cloud.

Standing up a home media server is fun. Populating your home media server is fun. Streaming from yur home media server? Fun! Maintaining your server? Mostly fun. Maintaining and updating your content? Now you’ve found all of the usability issues as well as the effects of past decisions.

“No one told me about carbs!” -Chris Griffin

Humans' Love of Carbs May Go Back Before Farming

And, technically, before we were Sapiens Sapiens

A Contrarian Clarification of Free Speech by Charles Hugh Smith

Where your rights and your expectations may collide

The toolkit with the bits I used to open the case and remove the battery was more than twice as expensive. Torx bits needed to open the case. iFixit for the win for a decent kit.

Grateful for the ubiquity of replacement parts for aged enterprise laptops. $30 and 15 minutes of my time and I have a replacement battery on board

When you scavenge parts for that aging workstation that you’re keeping alive, and then the hardware insists, because you’ve added more memory modules in more slots, that you install proprietary fans you didn’t know you would need. Thank the gods for eBay.

I’m interested in the kind of leadership that brings out everyone’s best. I’m interested in people working to make everyone’s life better. I’m interested in everyone feeling like they are enough.

Demands for unity or loyalty create competition and showmanship.

Has anyone used PodSnacks? It seems like an amazing idea, but I’m worried it’s just going to feel like more SPAM in my inbox.