John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

Renewed my @conservancy sustainership. I wish I could do more, but I can at least do that. I'm looking forward to more Outreachy internships, more OpenWRT One type devices, more copyleft advocacy, and more FOSSY in 2026!

Donations to @fdroidorg enabled a massive improvement in infrastructure -- app updates are now built and pushed out much more frequently (up to twice daily right now??)! A great example of how your financial contributions lead directly to meaningful improvements benefitting every user. Read the post for more details and how to donate. https://f-droid.org/en/2025/12/30/a-faster-heart-for-f-droid.html

"that American poet with a pile of saucers in front of him and a stupid look on his potato face talking about the Dada movement."

Finished *Before the Coffee Gets Cold*. I'd recommend I think? Widely described as cozy but it was also pretty existentially frustrating and sad. *Orbital* is cozier. Unrelatedly, started Gunnar Harding, *Guarding the Air: Selected Poems* and not sure why I didn't read this 25 years ago, first two poems have already dropped my jaw and the third I peeked mentions Anselm Hollo. #poetry #books

I'm not sure if it was supposed to or not, but eliminating the penny has not made my life easier.

We've taken to turning the reader backwards so that customers can't insert chip cards without assistance, for the *sole* reason of preventing people from inserting the Apple card. It is only the Apple card.

I have a new reason to shake my fist at Apple: their credit card (the physical card) breaks the card reader 100% of the time, causing a 10 minute delay to reset and reconnect everything. Except for the time when it never came back at all and had to be replaced.

@xor Happy first crossword ever published in a newspaper day

Also, "We grow small trying to be great."

@bkuhn can't export to CSV and diff?

Every time I read this quote I think about how important it is for nonprofits "The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

@luis_in_brief It's a lot of work, but it's working out -- and it's been fun to discover the FOSS & stationery geek overlap. It certainly satisfies my apparently primary career requirement "make December impossible."

Cold calling brick and mortar stores in the middle of December suggesting they change their point of sale system is a brilliant business plan that I'm sure is very successful and doesn't inspire any negative feelings at all.

I'm glad they are making it easier to move your data around, but there is only one side of the equation that is in the end making it hard to switch between Android and iPhone, and that's Apple, who won't let you install Android on iPhones you "own" and would in fact describe you as a criminal for attempting it.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/google-and-apple-are-making-it-easier-to-switch-between-iphone-and-android?utm_medium=RSS

@joeycastillo I think this contract was already ruined by engagement-driven advertising online, since we can't generally assume anymore that the author agrees with what they've written themselves. But yeah LLM even worse.

Annual PSA to please put your #fountainpen #inkvent posts behind a cut warning, including the names and descriptions of the inks.