John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

Finished "Prayer for the Crown-Shy" by Becky Chambers. Everything I hoped it would be, and the concept of "crown-shy" is something I will love to think about. Immediately ordered "To Be Taught, If Fortunate" and pre-ordered "As You Wake, Break the Shell" by her, from my friends at <https://flyleafbooks.com/>. Then there will be no more :( #books #scifi

One of the small things that makes me feel most alien in this world is people and their non-systematic willy-nilly filenames.

Sent back an HP printer because it turned out to require an app just to setup WiFi etc. No.

About a third of the US population was born after September 11, 2001.

""In many ways, fame is the industrial disease of creativity. It's a sludgy byproduct of making things." --MIke Myers

@evan This is where you tell me there is one, and I've never gone.

Thank you to all the vendors out there using fully numeric SKUs. To the rest of you all, seriously, what are you doing.

Choose:

If you like #bourbon, keep an eye out for Blade and Bow Solera Reserve 12yr. SRP < $50 and wow. Probably a little too much wood on the finish, but for this price I'm picking it up over my long time faves like Heaven Hill Bottled in Bond or Old Forester 1897. An early indicator of the fact that it's about to be a very good time to be a bourbon drinker (massive oversupply etc). Relatedly, looking forward to the new Heaven Hill with 2 years added to its age statement with no change in SRP.

Relatedly, looking forward to trying the new bottling of Heaven Hill with an additional 2 years on its age statement with apparently no change in SRP.

@pchestek should I not be surprised at seeing Department of War in that? I guess I thought the courts weren't using the non-statutory name. But, anyway, nice.

are you serious right now that #Android has no built-in way to permanently block bluetooth pairing requests from a device? Signed, guy whose receipt printer is now connected by USB but still tries to pair with every device including the one it's already connected to

You keep using that word Priority, I do not think it means what you think it means.

You know you're truly Sky Priority when your flight has an on-time percentage of 53%.

It's hard to overstate how formative Columbia House and BMG were to my childhood. Rip.

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/18/nx-s1-5936416/an-iconic-mail-order-music-and-video-company-is-shutting-down

@pchestek how much for a squeak

@evan Even worse, it makes it sound like the 26th HOPE.