Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

Beat SMB1 in front of my family and almost beat it second time through in crazy fast beetle mode (died at 8-4). #stillgotit

@RyuKurisu Naturally!

Confession time: I used to put on the Hackers soundtrack when skating to work in SF. I also put on Master of Puppets when working on centralized config management. #dork #soundtracks

It's strange that config files transitioned from key/value pairs into complex data structures at the same time that databases transitioned from complex data structures into key/value pairs. #devops

@bcl In the box with the other adapters of course!

I told you I was super serial...

But the flood that remained when it barely rained is not going to drain as soon as you close your eyes. NO!
And every time I scratch my pen to pay my city tax I hope you spend it. WHERE DID YOU SPEND IT?

Cuz I'm HERE to remind YOU
of the mess you left whenever it rains
It's not fair to deprive me,
of the kids I bred cuz the flood won't drain
YOU YOU YOU OUTGHTA KNOW

In honor of those of you dealing with Houston's infrastructure:

I want you to know, that school's out for you
I hope that you have, a raft or a boat

I know a normal city can handle when it's rainy
It won't go down on you in a river
It drains it elegantly, so you can get your baby
And prove you are a very excellent mother

@jeremiah Everybody's got a closed up kind of OS
Everybody's phone's a data mine
But It don't matter what you got, not a lot
Your data is all theirs, they'll have yours but I'll have mine
And with Librem I'll be fine

Cuz it takes
PureOS to move the world,
yes it does it takes
a free OS to move the world.

@jeremiah Now the world don't move to the beat of just one phone
What might be free to you, might not be free to some
A phone is born, RYF it seems,
hardware kill switch too, so no tracker in your jeans

And it's got
PureOS it takes
PureOS it takes
a free OS to move the world

@jeremiah I think I reference my own books more than anyone else--after all I know what's in them and where.

@n0btc@mastodon.radio @blacklight447 It's been a decade since I last checked, maybe the price has gone down, but this included installation and my house is not big.

@n0btc@mastodon.radio @blacklight447 Last time I quoted it here in California, panels alone were about $30-40k, I'm assuming another 10 for a proper lithium battery bank.

@n0btc@mastodon.radio @blacklight447 Yes but $40k-$50k is a pretty big investment.

I just heard from my school district that because our local utility hasn't maintained their lines for years and have a policy now of cutting power if winds are high enough, that the school (and we by extension) have to prepare for county-wide outages lasting upwards of 3-5 days at a time!

My copy of the Snowden memoir, Permanent Record arrived! Can't wait to dig into this tonight!

@blacklight447 Thanks for the offer. If I write new pieces for a publication down the road, it will need to be one that compensates their writers. I believe strongly in that.

@kylejj I have another writing project that's taking my attention right now. Maybe once I finish that and take a break...

I'm really missing Linux Journal today. This RMS/FSF news would have had us editors working together to publish a well-thought-out story...