John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

"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."

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."

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

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

For seven years I've been carrying around the chopsticks given to us at #DebConf in Taiwan, always in my backpack, because you never know when you might find yourself without utensils. Today is that day! Fond memories. #debian

Pretty much all of my jobs in the last 20+ years have involved typing people's handwritten email addresses into a database, to some degree (small nonprofit before, now small business). I notice that it's a lot easier these days since everyone uses the same email domain! One half of the deciphering handwriting equation is solved. Sad face.

how to avoid the sunk cost fallacy but still finish what you start

TIL that Aviation #gin is distilled in "Indiana and/or Oregon".