Category: Links of Interest
The Old Ways are More Likely to continue to Work
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The best of the old ways are valuable not because they’re old, but because they are tried and tested. They work. Sometimes they are equal or superior to the new ways, sometimes they’re less efficient. But efficiency isn’t always the goal, is it? – Storing your stuff in plaintext is part of a bigger picture
Synology backtracks but I’m still burned
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I bought a DS920+ a few years ago after wanting a NAS for a long enough time that Drobo was the most recommended option. But when Synology decided to force some devices to only use their hard drives I saw the writing on the wall. At some point I’ll get my own server going without
On Pride and Purity
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Thoughtful post from Tracy but the last line stuck out to me: If leftists can drop our pride and purity, I think we could gain more results through coalition than trying to make people perfectly match our alignment on every cause. I recently read Moral Ambition and one of the key points of chapter 4
Bridging Analogue and Digital Notes
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The Obsidian Note Codes plugin does an interesting thing to bridge your digital and physical notes by producing a 4 letter code for a note which you can write down to reference that note in a notebook.
Make Blogging Easy
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I’m banging this drum again, your threads should be a blogpost and you should be blogging. If you’ve thought about it here are some tips from a 20 year blog veteran to help you get started.
Librarians are Superheroes
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Yes, this can be America because some Americans like fascism and only want you to have the freedom to do the things that they approve of.
It’s just a phone and I just don’t care
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Today I found out that Apple has new iPhones because Chris wrote about it. Now I’ve looked at them and I just don’t care. My 13 Mini still serves its purpose without issue. I don’t care about Apple Intelligence and I’d rather have a mirrorless camera if I’m looking for a better camera. My wife
Be free of obligations
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In truth, I don’t actually like reading later. 99% of the time, if I save something to read later, the fact that I’m not reading it now is a good sign that I don’t actually want to read it and should free myself of the obligation. Saving the article is an act of self-soothing, telling
What Lou Likes in a blog
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Lou wrote a list of what he likes in a blog and I agree with them. I’d add that while I don’t want to hear about how bad things are all the time, I also don’t want fanboy blogs either. There are a number of Apple centric sites that I stopped following because they were
Opportunity = Let’s put all risk on workers
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While reading the magazine version of Plastic Money I came across this quote near the end. For its part, Plastic Bank isn’t interested in hiring full-time collectors. “I think it’s even more exciting for the world’s most resourceful to have an unlimited opportunity,” Katz says. “If they want to work more, they’ll work more. They